1099 Cal. State Papers Dom. (1658-1659), pp. 129, 135. Sec. Thurloe to Capt. Whitstone, 10/20 Sept.—Id., p. 136.

M556 The Rump restored, 7 May, 1659.

1100 Journal House of Commons, vii, 644.

1101 Journal 41, fo. 204b; Journal House of Commons, vii, 671.

1102 Journal House of Commons, vii, 647, 708.

1103 Id., vii, 647, 649, 650.

1104 Journal 21, fo. 206; Journal House of Commons, vii, 721.

M557 Royalist rising in Cheshire supported by a party in the city, Aug., 1659.

1105 "We understand from examinations of prisoners before the lord mayor yesterday that a rising of apprentices in London was intended at five this evening to prevent the troops from marching to Chester, when the calling of a Common Hall was to have been obtruded on the lord mayor, but these designs were frustrated by the lord mayor's vigilance" Whitelock to the commissioners of parliament in Ireland, 9 Aug.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1659-1660), p. 90.

1106 Journal House of Commons, vii, 753, 754; Whitelock, p. 682.

M558 Parliament desires the re-election of John Ireton mayor, 2 Sept., 1659.

M559 Opposition of the Common Council.

1107 Journal House of Commons, vii, 773; Repertory 66, fo. 310b.

1108 Journal 41, fo. 208.

M560 Parliament gives way, 28 Sept., 1659.

1109 Journal House of Commons, vii, 787, 788.

M561 Parliament invited to dinner at Grocers' Hall, 6 Oct., 1659.

1110 Journal 41, fo. 209b; Journal House of Commons, vii, 790.

M562 Parliament closed by Lambert, 13 Oct.

1111 Journal House of Commons, vii, 797; Whitelock, p. 684.

M563 Fears of a disturbance in the city on lord mayor's day.

1112 Repertory 66, fo. 330b.

M564 Monk prepares to march southward, Nov., 1659.

1113 Whitelock, p. 686.

M565 Monk's letter to the City, 23 Nov., 1659.

1114 "Memorials," p. 689.

1115 Journal 41, fos. 211b, 212.

M566 Rising of apprentices in favour of a free parliament, 5 Dec., 1659.

1116 Journal 41, fo. 212; Clarendon (ed. 1839), p. 936.

1117 Whitelock, p. 689.

1118 Repertory 67, fo. 22b.

M567 A committee to confer with Fleetwood for the security of peace and the safety of the city, 8 Dec.

1119 Repertory 67, fo. 23; Whitelock, p. 689.

1120 Repertory 67, fo. 27.

M568 Fleetwood promises a free parliament.

1121 Journal 41, fo. 213.

1122 Id., fo. 213b.

M569 A fresh committee appointed, 22 Dec., 1659.

M570 Recommendation of the committee, 23 Dec.

1123 Journal 41, fos. 214b, 215. The committee's report will be found printed in Maitland, i, 423.

M571 Nomination of officers for the trained bands, 24 Dec., 1659.

1124 Journal 41, fo. 215b.

M572 The royalists' hopes centred in the city.

1125 Nicholas to Lipe, 10/20* Dec.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1659-60), p. 280.

1126 Nicholas to Mills, 24 Dec./3 Jan.*—Cal. State Papers, pp. 286, 287.

M573 The Rump again restored, 26 Dec., 1659.

1127 Whitelock, p. 691; Clarendon, p. 936.

M574 Draft petition to the Rump, 28 Dec., 1659.

M575 Presentation of petition postponed, 29 Dec., 1659.

1128 Journal 41, fos. 216-217.

M576 The City's reply to Monk's letter, 29 Dec.

1129 Id., fo. 217.

M577 A deputation from Parliament to the Court of Aldermen, 31 Dec.

1130 Journal House of Commons, vii, 800, 802.

1131 Journal 41, fo. 218.

1132 Nicholas to Mills 7/17* Jan.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1659-60), pp. 304-305.

M578 The citizens decline to pay taxes until parliament be filled up.

M579 Monk's second letter to the City, 6 Jan., 1660.

M580 A deputation from the City appointed to meet Monk, 19 Jan., 1660.

1133 Pepys, under date 13 Jan., describes this letter as "a cunning piece," which the Londoners did not "much trust to."

1134 A gratuity of L20 was granted to the Swordbearer for his journey and another of L5 to his attendant.—Journal 41, fo. 219.

1135 Journal 41, fos. 219, 219b.

M581 Monk desires the removal of certain regiments from London before he will enter.

M582 Monk enters London, 3 Feb., 1660.

1136 Pepys, Diary, 1 Feb.; Journal House of Commons, vii, 826; Lingard, xi, 420, 421.

1137 Bradshaw had died 31 Oct., 1659. The place of under Sheriff or Judge of one of the Sheriffs' Court rendered vacant by his decease was filled up (9 Nov.) by the appointment of Francis Philips.—Journal 41, fo. 211b.

M583 A City deputation to Monk, 8 Feb.

1138 Journal 41, fo. 219b.

M584 The Common Council dissolved by order of the Rump, 9 Feb.

1139 Pepys, Diary, 9 Feb.

1140 Journal House of Commons, vii, 838.

1141 Journal House of Commons, vii, 837.

M585 Monk in the city.

M586 Monk confers with the Court of Aldermen, 10 Feb.

1142 Repertory 67, fo. 42b.

M587 Monk's letter to parliament, 11 Feb.

1143 Id., fo. 43.

1144 Pepys, Diary, 11 Feb., 1660.

1145 Pepys, Diary, 11 and 13 Feb.

M588 Monk attends divine service in the city, 12 Feb., 1660.

1146 Id., 12 Feb.

M589 Interview between Monk and the Court of Aldermen at Drapers' Hall, 13 Feb.

1147 Repertory 67, fos. 43-43b.

M590 The Council of State invite Monk to leave the city for Whitehall, 13 Feb.

1148 Council of State to General George Monk, 13 Feb., 1660.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1659-1660), p. 360.

M591 Monk prepares to quit the city, 15 Feb., 1660.

1149 Repertory 67, fos. 45-46b.

M592 Monk remains in the city but changes his quarters.

1150 Pepys, Diary, 17 Feb.

1151 Whitelock, p. 696.

M593 The return of the excluded members to parliament, 21 Feb.

1152 Council of State to Monk, 20 Feb., 1660.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1659-1660), p. 372.

M594 The Common Council restored, 21 Feb., 1660.

1153 Journal House of Commons, vii, 846, 847, 848.

1154 Pepys, Diary, 21 Feb., 1660.

1155 Journal 41, fo. 221.

1156 Council of State to the mayor, 27 Feb., 1660.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1659-1660), pp. 375-376.

M595 Parliament desires a loan of L60,000, 22 Feb., 1660.

1157 Journal 41, fo. 220b.

1158 Journal 41, fo. 221b; Journal House of Commons, vii, 858, 859-860.

M596 Monk appointed Sergt.-Major-General of the city's forces, 3 March.

1159 Journal 41, fos. 221, 221b, 222b, 223; Journal House of Commons, vii, 850, 856, 867, 868, 871.

1160 Journal 41, fo. 221b.

1161 Id., fo. 224.

M597 The Long Parliament dissolved, 16 March, 1660.

1162 Journal House of Commons, vii, 880.

M598 Application to the City for an advance of L500,000, 26 March.

1163 Journal 41, fos. 224-224b.

M599 The king's restoration freely spoken of.

1164 Pepys, Diary, 16 and 29 March, 22 April.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1659-1660), p. 393.

1165 Pepys, 11 April.

M600 The City's declaration and vindication, 30 April, 1660.

1166 Journal 41, fos. 225-229b. "The city of London have put out a declaration wherein they do disclaim their owning any other government but that of a king, Lords and Commons."—Pepys, Diary, 2 May. Four printed copies (out of the 1,000 ordered by the court to be printed and published) are preserved in the Guildhall library.

M601 Letter from Charles to the City read before the Common Council, 1 May, 1660.

1167 Journal 41, fo. 230; Remembrancia ix, 1 (Index, p. 423.)

M602 The Declaration of Breda, 4 April.

1168 Journal 41, fo. 230b; Remembrancia ix, 2 (Index, p. 423).

M603 Thanks of the city for the king's letter and declaration, 1 May, 1660.

1169 Journal 41, fo. 231; Cal. State Papers Dom. (1659-1660), p. 430.

M604 The Convention Parliament sends to borrow L100,000 of the city, 2 May.

1170 Journal 41, fo. 231b.

1171 Diary, 16 May.

M605 City gifts to the king, the Dukes of York and Gloucester, etc.

1172 Journal 41, fos. 231b, 232, 232b, 233b; Pepys, Diary, 4 May.

M606 Commissioners to the Hague, May, 1660.

1173 The commissioners appointed (3 May) were the following:—Thomas Adams, alderman; William Wild, esq., Recorder; John Robinson and Antony Bateman, aldermen; Theophilus Biddulph, William Vincent and Thomas Bludworth, esquires; Major Thomas Chamberlen, Mr. Richard Ford and Colonel Bromefield. Of these Alderman Robinson, Recorder Wild, Biddulph and Vincent were members of parliament, the consent of which had to be obtained before they set sail. Six more commissioners were added the following day (4 May), viz., Alderman Reynardson, Alderman Langham, Sir Thomas Foote, Sir James Bunce, Alderman Wale and William Bateman, esquire. Foote declined the honour.—Journal 41, fos. 231b, 232.

1174 Journal 41, fo. 234; Clarendon (ed. 1839), p. 962.

M607 Charles proclaimed in the city, 8 May, 1660.

1175 Pepys, Diary, 8 May; Repertory 67, fo. 74b. "Branch" denotes the figured pattern of the damask.

1176 Journal House of Commons, viii, 16.

M608 Charles enters London, 29 May.

1177 The sum of L30 was afterwards voted as compensation for damage done to private grounds by making a passage through them for the royal procession to pass on its way from St. George's and Walworth Fields to the city.—Repertory 67, fos. 91b, 122b.

1178 Evelyn's Diary (2nd ed.), i, 322; Whitelock, p. 702.

M609 Richmond Park restored to Charles II, 2 June, 1660.

1179 Journal 41, fo. 232b.

1180 Id., fo. 234b.

M610 The citizens take the oath of allegiance and supremacy.

1181 Pepys, Diary, 3 June.

1182 Repertory 67, fo. 83b; Journal 41, fo. 235. The king to the lord mayor and court of aldermen requiring all persons holding public office to take the oaths, 5 June.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1660-1661), p. 38.

1183 Repertory 67, fo. 87.

M611 Sir John Weld restored to office of town clerk.

1184 15 Sept., 1642.—Journal 40, fo. 38b.

1185 Journal 41, fos. 235, 236, 242: Remembrancia, ix, 3 (Index, p. 306); Cal. State Papers Dom. (1660-1661), p. 42.

M612 Sadler, town clerk, removed.

1186 Journal 41, fos. 240b, 241, 241b; Carlyle, "Cromwell's Letters and Speeches," iii, 173, 177, 192. So popular was Love in the city that there was some talk of giving him a public funeral, the procession to start from Merchant Taylors' Hall. This was, however, put a stop to by peremptory orders from the Council of State to the mayor (25 Aug., 1651).—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1651), p. 368.

M613 The deposed aldermen restored pursuant to the king's wishes, 4 Sept., 1660.

1187 Remembrancia, ix, 7 (Index, pp. 8-9). A draft of the king's letter by Lord Chancellor Hyde is preserved among the State Papers.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1660-1661), p. 255.

1188 Journal 41, fo. 240b.

M614 Langham excused on his own petition.

1189 Langham calls it the "Rump Parliament," but the "Rump" did not come into being until after Pride's Purge, which took place 6 Dec., 1648.

1190 Remembrancia, ix, 8 (Index, p. 9).

1191 Repertory 67, fo. 130b.

M615 Reynardson re-elected mayor, but declines office, 1 Oct., 1660.

1192 Journal 41, fo. 243.

M616 The king and parliament entertained in the city, 5 July.

1193 Journal 41, fos. 235b, 236, 236b, 237.

M617 Sir Richard Browne major-general of the city's forces, vice Monk resigned, 6 July, 1660.

1194 Id., fos. 237, 238.

M618 Demand of a loan of L100,000, 14 Aug.

1195 Id., fos. 240, 240b.

1196 Journal 41, fo. 243b; Remembrancia, ix, 11 (Index, p. 199).

M619 The city companies' petition touching their Irish estates, Sept.

M620 The king's gracious reply, Oct., 1660.

1197 By Statute 12, Charles II, c. 24, abolishing tenure by knight service.—Journal 41, fos. 239b, 240b, 244b.

1198 Journal 41, fos. 242b, 243.

M621 Outbreak of fanatics or Fifth Monarchy men. 6 Jan., 1661.

1199 Letter from the lords of the council to the mayor and aldermen, 7 Jan.—Remembrancia, ix, 16 (Index, p. 424).

1200 Sir John Finch to Lord Conway, 11 Jan.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1660-1661), pp. 470-471; Pepys, Diary, 7-10 Jan.

1201 The lords of the council to the mayor, etc., 22 Jan., 4 March, 1661.—Remembrancia, ix, 18, 21 (Index, pp. 424, 425).

M622 Vote of thanks to mayor and sheriffs for stopping outbreak, 25 Jan., 1661.

1202 Journal 41, fo. 244b. "My lord mayor, Sir Richard Browne, hath carried himself honourably."—Pepys.

1203 Journal 41, fos. 245, 247b. Collections were afterwards made in the city churches. See letter from Sir William Morice or Morrice to the mayor, 15 March.—Remembrancia, ix, 27 (Index, 425).

M623 A loan for paying off the navy, 11 March.

1204 "The army was to be disbanded, but in such a manner, with so much respect and so exact an account of arrears, and such gratuities, that it looked rather to be the dismissing them to the next opportunity and a reserving them till there should be occasion for their service, than a breaking of them."—Burnet. "Hist. of His Own Times" (ed. 1833), i, 289.

1205 Journal 41, fos. 247, 247b; Remembrancia, ix, 25, 26 (Index, p. 200).

M624 Another loan, 9 April, 1661.

1206 Journal 41, fos. 248, 248b; Repertory 67, fo. 249.

M625 Preparations for the coronation.

1207 On the 9 Feb. the lord chamberlain informed the lord mayor by letter that the coronation day had been fixed and that it was his majesty's intention to come on the day before from his Tower of London through the city to his palace at Whitehall, with such magnificence as became the majesty of so great a king. The mayor and aldermen were directed to be in attendance, and timely notice would be given to others whose attendance should be thought necessary.—Remembrancia, ix, 20 (Index, pp. 116-117).

1208 Journal 41, fos. 245b, 248b; Journal 45, fo. 100. N.B.—There are no Journals numbered 42, 43 or 44.

1209 Repertory 67, fo. 225.

1210 Journal 41, fo. 248.

M626 Alderman Vyner commissioned to provide new regalia for the occasion.

1211 The precise sum was L31,978 9s. 11d., of which L21,978 9s. 11d. was paid by warrant dated 20 July, 1661.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1661-1662). pp. 35, 41. On the other hand, it appears from a receipt by Vyner printed in Archaeologia (xxix, 266) that the money or some portion of it remained unpaid as late as July, 1662.

M627 Procession from the Tower to Whitehall, 22 April. 1661.

1212 Letter from Sir William Morice or Morrice (Secretary of State) to the lord mayor, desiring the streets of the city to be railed off where convenient and gravelled against the day of his majesty riding through the city to his coronation, 4 April, 1661.—Remembrancia, ix, 28 (Index p. 117).

1213 Repertory 67, fo. 223b.

1214 Id., fo. 218.

M628 Coronation day, 23 April.

M629 Accident to a former City Recorder.

1215 Pepys, Diary, 23 April.

M630 The meeting of the Cavalier Parliament, 8 May, 1661.

1216 Letter to Edward Bowles, 19 March.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1660-1661), p. 538.

1217 J.C. to Tho. Powell, 19 March.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1660-1661), p. 537.

1218 Letters to Edward Bowles and John Woolwich, 19 March.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1660-1661), pp. 538, 541.

1219 Letter to Rev. Mr. Roger, 19 March.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1660-1661), p. 539.

1220 Diary, 20 March.

M631 The City an example to the rest of the country.

1221 William Beauchamp to Dan. Crosse, 19 March.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1660-1661), p. 539.

1222 Buxton to Bowles, 19 March.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1660-1661), p. 536.

1223 Royle to Gibbons, 19 March; Letter to Fran. Darley, 19 March.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1660-1661), pp. 536, 537.

M632 The court party afraid.

M633 Letters intercepted at the post office.

1224 Cal. State Papers Dom. (1660-1661), p. 536, editorial note.

M634 The Corporation Act, 1661.

1225 Although it passed the Commons on the 5th July it did not receive the assent of the Lords until December.—Journal House of Commons, viii, 291, 339.

M635 Petition for confirmation of City's charter, 9 July, 1661.

1226 Journal 41, fo. 254.

1227 Journal House of Commons, viii, 302. "Great talk now," wrote Pepys on the 31 May, "how the parliament intend to make a collection of free gifts to the king throughout the kingdom, but I think it will not come to much." Pepys's surmise proved correct. On the 31st August he makes the following entry in his diary:—"The Benevolence proves so little, and an occasion of so much discontent everywhere, that it had better it had never been set up." His own subscription towards it was L20.

1228 Cal. State Papers Dom. (1661-1662), p. 38.

1229 Journal 41, fo. 235b; Letter Book UU, fo. 51b.

M636 The mayor and aldermen attend the king touching renewal of charter, Oct., 1661.

1230 The Corporation Act (2 Stat. 13 Charles II, c. i) mentioned above.

1231 Journal 45, fos. 142, 142b.

1232 The king to the mayor and commissioners, 5 May and 16 June, 1662.—Remembrancia, ix, 45, 46 (Index, pp. 64, 65); Cal. State Papers Dom. (1661-1662), pp. 362, 408.

M637 Fear of more disturbance by Presbyterians and fanatics, Sept., 1661.

1233 Capt. William Pestell to Sec. Nicholas, 26 September, 1661.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1661-1662), pp. 97-98.

1234 Sir Richard Browne, the lord mayor, to Sec. Nicholas, 24 August, 1661.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1661-1662), p. 70.

1235 Examination of Gracious Franklin and Joshua Jones, 24 October.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1661-1662), p. 121.

1236 Cal. State Papers Dom. (1661-1662), pp. 160, 161.

1237 Remembrancia, ix, 34 (Index, p. 550); Cf. Cal. State Papers Dom. (1661-1662), pp. 123-124, where the date of the letter is given as 25 October.

M638 Election of Sir John Frederick, mayor, 29 Sept., 1661.

1238 Journal 45, fo. 115b.

1239 Repertory 67, fo. 314b.

1240 "This lord mayor it seems brings up again the custom of lord mayors going the day of their instalment to St. Paul's and walking round about the Crosse and offering something at the altar."—Pepys, Diary, 29 Oct., 1661; as to the ancient custom, see Liber Albus (Rolls Series), i, 26.

1241 Repertory 67, fo. 326.

M639 Letter from the king touching election of Common Council, 13 Dec., 1661.

1242 Remembrancia, ix, 37 (Index, p. 90).

M640 Order for expurgation of city's records. 26 Feb., 1662.

1243 Journal 45, fo. 161b; Letter Book UU, fo. 91b; Cf. Cal. State Papers Dom. (1661-1662), p. 287, where the date of the resolution is given as the 27th February.

M641 Demand of a loan of L200,000, 7 Feb., 1662.

1244 Journal 45, fos. 159-160b; Cf. Letter Book UU, fo. 90.

1245 Journal 45, fos. 187, 188b, 192b.

1246 The king to the mayor, 25 April, 1662.—Journal 45, fo. 214b; Letter Book UU, fo. 125; Cal. State Papers Dom. (1661-1662), p. 350.

M642 City gift to Queen Catharine, 3 June, 1662.

1247 Pepys, Diary, 3 June, 1662. Pepys, or his informant, however, appears to have erred in more than one point. The gift was only voted by the Common Council on the 1st June (Journal 45, fo. 215; Letter Book UU, fo. 136), and no one is recorded as having fined for alderman (if indeed an aldermanry happened to be then vacant) between that day and the 3rd June. The money, moreover, is recorded as having been presented in a purse and not in a gold cup.

M643 The Hearth or Chimney tax, 1662.

1248 10 March, 1662.—Journal House of Commons, viii, 383.

1249 Journal 45, fo. 195; Cal. State Papers Dom. (1661-1662), p. 402.

1250 The king to the mayor, aldermen and Justices of the Peace within the Bills of Mortality, 13 Aug., 1662.—Remembrancia, ix, 49 (Index, p. 167); Cal. State Papers Dom. (1661-1662), p. 459.

1251 The Lord Treasurer and the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the mayor, etc., 7 Oct., 1663, and 8 Feb., 1664.—Remembrancia, ix, 67, 97 (Index, p. 167).

M644 The Act of Uniformity, 1662.

1252 8 May, 1662.—Journal House of Lords, xi, 450.

1253 "I hear most of the Presbyters took their leaves to-day, and that the city is much dissatisfied with it."—Pepys, Diary, 17 Aug., 1662.

1254 The king to the lord mayor and sheriffs, 22 Aug.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1661-1662), p. 466.

M645 Sir John Robinson elected mayor. Michaelmas, 1662.

1255 Repertory 68, fo. 219b.

1256 Journal 45, fo. 234.

1257 Warrant to Garter King-at-Arms, 13 Oct., 1663.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1663-1664), p. 299.

1258 Pepys, Diary, 17 March, 1663.

M646 The reception of the Russian ambassador, 27 Nov., 1662.

1259 Journal 45, fos. 187-191.

1260 Pepys, Diary, 27 Nov., 1662.

1261 Journal 45, fo. 247b.

1262 Pepys, Diary, 14 June, 1662.

1263 Id., 27 Nov., 1662.

1264 Pepys, Diary, 6 June, 1663.

M647 Grant of the Inspeximus Charter by Charles II, 24 June, 1663.

1265 Cal. State Papers Dom. (1663-1664), p. 37.

1266 Preserved at the Guildhall. A docquet of the charter among the State Papers appears to be dated March.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1663-1664), p. 94.

M648 City loan of L50,000, Sept., 1663.

1267 Remembrancia, ix, 66 (Index, p. 201): Repertory 69, fo. 190b. Warrant to secure repayment of the loan, 28 Sept.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1663-1664), p. 280.

M649 The king's return to London after a progress, Oct., 1663.

1268 Precept of the mayor to the companies to prepare for the event, 28 Sept.—Journal 45, fo. 316b. Letter from Sir John Robinson, the mayor, to Williamson enclosing one to the Lord Chamberlain, 23 Sept.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1663-1664), p. 278; Pepys, Diary, 28 Sept.

M650 The French ambassador insulted at the lord mayor's banquet. 29 Oct., 1663.

1269 Journal 45, fo. 332b.

1270 Letter from the Comte de Comminges to Louis XIV, 9 Nov., 1663, printed in Appendix to Pepys's Diary, 4th ed. (1854), pp. 346, 347.

M651 State visit of the lord mayor to the French ambassador, 11 Nov.

1271 The French ambassador to Louis XIV, 12/22* Nov.—Appendix to Pepys' Diary, (4th ed.), pp. 347-348.

M652 War declared, against the Dutch, 22 Feb., 1665.

1272 Journal 45, fos. 389b, 398, 423b; Repertory 70, fo. 5b. "The city did last night very freely lend the king L100,000 without any security but the king's word, which was very noble."—Pepys, Diary, 26 Oct., 1664. In making the second advance the Common Council desired to express their sense of his majesty's recent favour towards the city in preventing a new bridge being built over the Thames between Lambeth and Westminster, "which as is conceived would have been of dangerous consequence to the state of this city."—Cf. Cal. State Papers Dom. (1664-1665), p. 43.

1273 Journal House of Commons, viii, 568.

1274 Ambassador Van Goch (or Gogh) to the States General, 6/16* March, 1665.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1664-1665), p. 242.

1275 Journal 46, fos. 19b, 43b, 44.

M653 The loss of the ship "The London."

1276 Pepys, Diary, 8 March, 1665.

M654 The City's offer to replace her.

1277 Journal 46, fo. 68; Repertory 70, fo. 74.

1278 Diary, 10 March, 1665.

1279 Captain John Taylor, who was selected immediately, expressed his willingness to abate L1,000 of the whole sum to be paid for the ship, the contract price being L12 per ton.—MS. Record "Ship London," fos. 3b-5b.

1280 Journal 46, fo. 26.

1281 Id., fo. 99.

1282 "He [Major Halsey, 'a great creature of the Duke of Albemarle's'] tells me also, as he says of his own knowledge, that several people before the duke went out did offer to supply the king with L100,000, provided he would be treasurer of it, to see it laid out for the navy: which he refused, and so it died."—Pepys, Diary, 24 June, 1666.

M655 The "Loyal London" launched, 10 June, 1666.

1283 Pepys, Diary, 10 and 26 June and 23 July. 1666.

M656 The Duke of York's victory over the Dutch fleet, 3 June, 1665.

1284 "All this day by all people upon the river, and almost every where else hereabout were heard the guns, our two fleets for certain being engaged; which was confirmed by letters from Harwich, but nothing particular; and all our hearts full of concernment for the duke."—Pepys, Diary, 3 June.

1285 Lord Arlington to the mayor, 5 (?) June.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1664-1665), p. 408.

1286 Journal 46, fo. 64b.

M657 Precautions against the plague, 1663-1664.

1287 Secretary Morrice to the lord mayor, 18 Oct., 1663; the lord mayor's reply, 22 Oct.; the lords of the council to the mayor and aldermen, 23 Oct., and their reply.—Remembrancia, ix. 69, 70, 73, 74, (Index, pp. 348-349).

1288 Original letter from the lords of the council to the lord mayor, 27 June, 1664, preserved in the Town Clerk's office.

M658 The Plague of 1665.

1289 Van Goch (or Gogh) to the States General, 24 July.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1664-1665), p. 488.

1290 Repertory 70, fo. 141.

1291 Burnet, i, 411.

1292 Journal 46, fo. 79.

1293 Repertory 70, fos. 136, 136b, 143b, 144, 144b, 147, 150b, 151; Journal 46, fos. 61, 98, 98b.

1294 "London Remembrancer, or a true accompt of every particular week's christnings and mortality in all the years of pestilence within the cognizance of the Bills of Mortality, being xviii years, taken out of the Register of the Company of Parish Clerks of London," 1665.

1295 The exact figures in the London Remembrancer are 3,151.

1296 Pepys, Diary, 6 and 20 Sept.

1297 Repertory 70, fo. 153b.

1298 Journal 46, fo. 97b.

1299 Pepys, Diary, 6 Aug., 1666.

1300 The number of inhabitants of the city and its liberties in the reign of Elizabeth has been estimated at 150,000 (Motley, "United Netherlands," i, 306). As the suburbs grew the population of the city would become less. Hence, in 1682, the city's Recorder, speaking on the Quo Warranto case, mentions the number of inhabitants for whom the municipal authorities had to supply markets as a little over 50,000 (Journal 50, fo. 41).

M659 Naval engagement with the Dutch, June, 1666.

M660 A city loan of L100,000.

1301 Journal 46, fo. 99; Letter Book WW, fo. 78; Pepys, Diary, 10 and 21 June, 1666.

M661 The Fire of London, Sept., 1666.

1302 Repertory 71, fo. 172b.

1303 Cal. State Papers Dom. (1664-1665), p. 303.

1304 Charles II is said to have been the last English sovereign to occupy rooms in the Tower of London, as he did on the night previous to his coronation.

1305 Pepys, Diary, 2 Sept., 1666.

1306 Letter of John Rushworth, 8 Sept., 1666.—"Notes and Queries," 5th series, v. 307.

M662 The extent of the ravages of the fire.

1307 "London's lamentation on its destruction by a consuming fire, began Sept. 1, 1666...."—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1666-1667), p. 103 and Preface, pp. x, xi.

1308 Pepys, Diary, 4 Sept., 1666; Evelyn, Diary, i, 393.

1309 "History of the Monument," by Charles Welch, F.S.A., Librarian to the Corporation of London, 1893, p. 79.

M663 Lord Mayor Bludworth.

1310 "People do all the world over cry out of the simplicity of my lord mayor in generall; and more particularly in the business of the fire, laying it all upon him."—Pepys, Diary, 7 Sept.

1311 Bludworth to [Williamson], 29 Sept.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1666-1667), p. 167.

M664 The fire attributed to the Papists.

1312 Memorandum [by Williamson] that after careful examinations by the council and others, nothing had been found to argue the fire to have been caused otherwise than by the hand of God, a great wind and a very dry season. Sept., 1666.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1666-1667), p. 175.

1313 Journal 36, fo. 219.

1314 Journal House of Commons, ix, 703.

1315 Journal 49, fos. 156b, 224; Repertory 86, fos. 151, 162.

M665 Sir Patience Ward and the inscription on the Monument.

1316 "England's Reformation, from the time of Henry VIII to the end of Oates's Plot," Canto iv, p. 100, ll. 21-32.

M666 The inscription finally removed, 1830.

1317 Resolution of Common Council, 16 Sept., 1689.—Journal 51, fo. 11.

1318 Journal 104, fo. 413b.

M667 Provisions ordered for the city, 5 & 6 Sept., 1666.

1319 Proclamation, 5 Sept.; letter from Lord Arlington to the Lord Lieutenant of Hertfordshire, 6 Sept.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1666-1667), pp. 100, 104.

M668 Letter of condolence and assistance from York, 17 Sept., 1666.

1320 Original letter preserved in the Town Clerk's office.

M669 Similar letters from the Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland, 27 Sept.

1321 Original letter preserved in the Town Clerk's office. A Bill was before parliament at the time against the importation of cattle from Ireland. The City petitioned that a proviso might be added to the Bill allowing such importation "by way of donation and charitable loane," but December came and parliament still withheld its assent.—See copies of City's answer to letter from Ireland, preserved in Town Clerk's office; also Repertory 72, fos. 2b-3b; Journal 46, fo. 132b.

M670 Similar letter from Londonderry.

1322 Original letter (undated) preserved in the Town Clerk's office. The letter was read before the Common Council, 14 Nov., 1666.—Journal 46, fo. 130.

M671 Municipal offices removed to Gresham House.

1323 Repertory 71, fos. 168-169b.

1324 Id., fos. 169b, 170, 171.

M672 Freemen allowed to erect tents or sheds for trade purposes in certain parts of the city.

1325 Repertory 71, fo. 170b.

M673 Order of Common Council for clearing rubbish from the streets, 10 Sept.

1326 Journal 46, fo. 120.

M674 Proclamation for the recovery of goods stolen or lost during the late fire, 19 Sept.

1327 Lord Arlington to Sir Thos. Clifford, 4 Sept., 1666.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1666-1667), p. 99.

1328 Repertory 71, fo. 172. The proclamation came out on the 19th Sept.—Journal 46, fo. 124; Cal. State Papers Dom. (1666-1667), p. 140.

1329 Journal 46, fo. 121.

M675 Letter from the Primate and lords to the mayor touching the property of ruined churches, 19 Oct., 1666.

1330 Original letter preserved in the Town Clerk's office.

M676 Lord mayor's day shorn of its pageantry, 29 Oct., 1666.

1331 Pepys, Diary, 15 Sept., 1666.

1332 Id., 29 Oct., 1666.

M677 No elections on St. Thomas's day.

1333 Repertory 72, fo. 26b. The king had previously (in September?) written to the city bidding them take special care that the members to be elected in December observed the Act for regulating corporations, by which no one was allowed to be a mayor, alderman or common councilman without taking the Lord's supper, the oaths of allegiance and supremacy, etc.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1666-1667), p. 173.

M678 The City's scheme for insurance against fire, 1681.

1334 Journal 49, fos. 224b, 254b, 255b, 267, 277, 293b. Deed preserved in Town Clerk's office (Box No. 31).—See also Printed report on Corporation Records, 16 Dec., 1869 (Appendix iii, p. 48).

1335 See a scarce tract (preserved in the Guildhall Library, M 4, 5), entitled "Observations on the Proposals of the City to insure houses in case of fire," and printed "for the gentlemen of the insurance office on the backside of the Royal Exchange, where these papers are to be had gratis, 1681."

M679 Preparations for re-building the city.

1336 Sir William Morice to the lord mayor, 10 Sept., 1666 (original letter preserved in the Town Clerk's office).

1337 The king to the mayor, etc., 10 Sept., 1666.—Cal. State Papers Dom.(1666-1667), p. 111.

1338 Journal 46, fo. 121.

1339 Journal 46, fo. 123.

M680 A special Court of Judicature created by Stat. 19 Car. II, c. 2.

1340 Stat. 19 Car. II, c. 2.

1341 The judgments of the court—known as "Fire Decrees"—extend from 1667 to 1673, and are contained in 9 volumes. The portraits of the judges were painted by Michael Wright, by the order of the Court of Aldermen, 19 April, 1670 (Repertory 75, fo. 160b). Warrants for the payment of the artist, and also Jeremiah Wright for painting arms and inscriptions on the frames, are preserved in the Chamberlain's office.—See Report on Corporation Records, 16 Dec., 1869, Appendix iii, p. 49.

1342 Repertory 72, fo. 1b; Journal 46, fo. 129.

M681 Gift of L100 to the Speaker. 4 Dec., 1666.

1343 Repertory 72, fo. 20b.

M682 Building Act, 19 Car. II, c. 3, 1667.

1344 Id., fo. 2.

1345 Repertory 72, fo. 8.

1346 Id., fo. 20b.

1347 Journal 46, fos. 132b-133b.

1348 Id., fo. 136.

1349 Id., fo. 137.

1350 Journal House of Commons, viii, 689; Journal House of Lords, xii, 105.

1351 Repertory 72, fos. 43b-44b; Cf. Cal. State Papers Dom. (1666-1667), p. 469.

1352 Journal House of Commons, viii, 688.

M683 Vote of thanks to the king and the Duke of York, 19 Feb., 1667.

1353 Journal 46, fo. 142.

M684 Appointment of four city surveyors, 13 March, 1667.

1354 Journal 46, fos. 147b-148.

1355 Journal 46, fos. 170b, 189. According to the evidence of the State Papers the king appears to have suggested Bolton's appointment as surveyor-general by letters to the Common Council, dated the 31st May and the 5th June, 1667 (Cal. State Papers Dom., 1667, pp. 133, 151). It does not, however, appear to have been considered by the Common Council until the 14th Sept. There may have been good reason for the City declining to place the mayor in such a responsible position of trust, for a few weeks later (3 Dec.) he was suspected of misappropriating money subscribed to assist the poor of the city, and pending enquiry was forbidden to attend the Court of Aldermen or any public function (Repertory 73, fos. 28b, 61, 93b, 95, 95b, 107b). After bringing a charge against the Bishop of London in September, 1668, of misappropriating the sum of L50, and afterwards withdrawing, he was himself convicted in 1675 of having embezzled large sums of money intended for the poor (Repertory 73, fos. 260b, 264, 292b, 303; Repertory 80, fo. 119b). Reduced to poverty, he was granted by the City an allowance of L3 a week, which after his decease was continued to his widow (Journal 49, fo. 100b).

M685 Classification of streets, lanes, etc., 21 March. 1667.

1356 Journal 46, fos. 148b, 149.

1357 Original notification from the court at Whitehall, 22 March, 1667, preserved in the Town Clerk's office.

1358 Journal 46, fos. 151-152.

1359 The sums of money disbursed by the chamberlain between June and November, 1667, for this purpose are kept on record.—See Report on Corporation Records, 1869, Appendix iii, "Chamberlain's Strong Room."

1360 Journal 46, fo. 172.

M686 Allotment of market sites.

1361 Id., fos. 187b-188.

1362 Journal 46, fos. 210, 210b.

1363 Pepys, Diary.

M687 The coal duty raised to 2 s. a chaldron. 1670. Stat. 22 Car. II, c. 11.

1364 Journal 47, fos. 2b, 20b, 43b, 72-73, 146b, 291.—See Report on Corporation Records, 16 Dec., 1869, Appendix iii, p. 49.

1365 Repertory 72, fo. 81b.

1366 Journal 46, fo. 129b; Journal House of Commons, viii, 654, 657.

1367 Repertory 72, fo. 6b.

1368 The officers of the works to the king, May (?), 1667.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1667), p. 140.

M688 The Dutch fleet in the Medway, June, 1667.

1369 "Towards noon I to the Exchange, and there do hear mighty cries for peace."—Pepys, Diary, 9 April, 1667.

1370 John Conny, surgeon, to Williamson, 14 June.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1667), pp. 187-188; Pepys, Diary, 13 June, 1667.

1371 "We do not hear that the Dutch are come to Gravesend, which is a wonder."—Pepys, Diary, 14 June.

1372 Journal 46, fo. 163.

M689 Auxiliaries raised in the city, 13 June, 1667.

1373 Id., ibid.

M690 The Dutch fleet retires, 19 June.

1374 "The enemy drew off last night: none are now in view." John Conny to Williamson, 20 June.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1667). p. 217.

M691 A City loan of L10,000 for fortifying Sheerness, 21 June, 1667.

1375 Silas Taylor to Williamson, 20 June.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1667), p. 217 Tb.

1376 Repertory 72. fos. 124, 126b, 135b, 146. Letter to the mayor, 1 July—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1667), p. 256. The king to the same, 12, 20 and 29 July.—Id., pp. 288, 310, 339.

1377 Sir Robert Vyner himself was called upon to give security for deposits left in his hands by the Duke of Albemarle and others—"no good sign when they begin to fear the main."—Pepys, Diary, 17 June, 1667.

M692 The companies of Masons and Bricklayers to furnish workmen.

1378 The king to the lord mayor, 22 Aug.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1667), p. 408.

M693 The Treaty of Breda signed, 31 July, 1667.

M694 Report on state of the City's Chamber, 23 Nov., 1668.

1379 Journal 46, fo. 251.

1380 What his duties were is a matter of surmise. The office was successively held by Thomas Middleton, Ben Jonson and Francis Quarles. Ben Jonson's salary (100 nobles per annum) was stopped in 1631 by order of the Court of Aldermen "until he shall have presented to the court some fruits of his labours in that place" (Repertory 46, fo. 8); but it was renewed in 1634 at the intervention of the king (Repertory 48, fo. 433). Further particulars relating to holders of this office will be found fully recorded in the printed Index to Remembrancia (p. 305, note).

M695 Alderman Backwell.

1381 Journal 46, fo. 252.

1382 The king to Dr. Goddard, 10 Sept., 1666.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1666-1667), p. 112.

M696 The rights of the mayor within the precincts of the Temple.

1383 Preserved in the Town Clerk's office.

1384 Repertory, 74, fo. 116.

1385 8 Aug., 1671.—Repertory 76, fo. 216b.

M697 Secret treaty of Dover, 1 June, 1670.

1386 2 July.—Journal 47, fo. 55; Letter Book XX, fo. 46.

1387 Repertory 75, fo. 268, 289.

1388 Id., fo. 296b.

1389 Repertory 76, fo. 9b.

M698 The Prince of Orange entertained in the city, Dec., 1670.

1390 Original letters on the subject from the Earl of Manchester to the lord mayor, 4 and 5 Dec., preserved in the Town Clerk's office.—Cf. Journal 47, fos. 74-74b; Repertory 76, fos. 17, 27, 28-29; Letter Book XX, fo. 61.

M699 The Exchequer stops payment, 2 Jan., 1672.

1391 Burnet, "Hist. of His Own Time," i, 560. Burnet omits to mention the sums lavished on his mistresses and illegitimate children.

M700 London bankers brought to bankruptcy.

M701 Declaration of war with the Dutch, 17 March, 1672.

1392 Proclamation dated 22 March; precept of the lord mayor dated 24 March.—Journal 47, fos. 168b, 171b.

M702 Parliament and the Test Act, 1673.

M703 The City in arrears with assessments.

1393 Repertory 78, fos. 95b. 98b, 136b; Journal 47, fo. 264b; Letter Book XX, fo. 205b.

M704 Cardonel's proposals for raising money by annuities.

1394 "An advertisemt and demonstracon concerning ye improvemt of monies to ye great benefitt and advantage of all persons of wt nacon, sex, age, degree or quality soever, willing to advance any sume or sumes according to ye method herein after menconed, propounded to ye right honoble, the lord maior, aldermen and commons in Common Councell assembled."—Journal 48, fos. 52b-56.

1395 Repertory 78, fos. 120, 123b.

1396 Journal 47, fo. 265.

1397 The committee's report, though dated 20 Oct., 1673, did not come before the Common Council until May in the following year.—Journal 48, fo. 52b.

M705 The City's petition to parliament for relief, Feb., 1674.

1398 Journal 48, fos. 19, 23b; Letter Book YY, fos. 15, 19b.

M706 The question of aldermanic veto again raised, Sept., 1674.

1399 Objection appears to have been raised for the first time four years before (Jan., 1645).—Repertory 57 (Pt. 2), fo. 45b; Journal 40, fo. 121b.

1400 Journal 48, fo. 90b; Letter Book YY, fo. 62b.

1401 Journal 48, fo. 122; Letter Book YY, fo. 71b.

1402 Repertory 80, fos. 17b-18.

M707 Report to Court of Aldermen re veto, 20 Oct., 1674.

1403 Repertory 79, fos. 377, 405b-407b.

1404 Journal 48, fo. 122.

1405 Repertory 80, fo. 17.

M708 The conduct of Jeffreys the Common Sergeant, 12 March, 1675.

M709 Ordered to be suspended from office.

1406 Id., fo. 130b.

M710 Offers an apology which is deemed unsatisfactory, 23 March.

M711 The matter referred to the king.

1407 Repertory 80, fo. 143b.

1408 Id., fo. 131b.

1409 Journal 48, fos. 122, 123, 129; Letter Book YY, fos, 71b, 72b, 75b; Repertory 80, fo. 18b.

M712 Jeffreys questioned by the king, 29 March, 1675.

M713 The king recommends his restoration to office.

1410 Repertory 80, fos. 152-153b.

M714 Jeffreys restored, 30 March, 1675.

M715 City Records defective.

1411 Repertory 80, fo. 154. On the 26th October of this year the Court of Aldermen directed a narrative to be drawn up of what had taken place in the Common Council on the preceding day.—Id., fo. 313b. No such narrative, however, appears to have been drawn up, and on turning to the Journal we find no minute of any court of Common Council held on the 25th October.

M716 Standing counsel for the Court of Aldermen.

1412 Repertory 80, fo. 130.

M717 Further search to be made amongst the city's archives touching rights of mayor and aldermen.

1413 Id., fo. 174.

M718 The opinion of counsel on the question of aldermanic veto, 1675-1678.

1414 Id., fo. 269b.

1415 Printed report on negative voice of mayor and aldermen, 1724, p. 2. The Recorder, William Steele, had been made chief baron in 1655.

1416 Repertory 82, fos. 28-33b.

1417 Repertory 83, fos. 117b-123.

M719 A cry for war against France, 1678.

M720 A City loan of L100,000, afterwards raised to L150,000.

M721 Parliamentary vote of L200,000 for disbandment of the army, 4 June.

M722 Peace of Nimeguen, 31 July, 1678.

1418 Journal House of Commons, ix, 451.

1419 Journal 48, fo. 374.

1420 Journal 48, fo. 380.

1421 Journal House of Commons, ix, 480.

1422 Journal House of Commons, ix, 483.

1423 Journal House of Commons, ix, 488, 490, 491, 495. According to Burnet ("Hist. of His Own Time," ii, 173, 174), the House refused to entrust the money to Charles, but directed that it should be paid into the Chamber of London, and named a committee for "breaking" the army.

M723 The Popish plot, 1678.

1424 Journal 48, fos. 406, 408.

1425 Journal 49, fos. 1-14b, 76, 84, 87b, 153, etc.

1426 Journal 49, fo. 152b; Repertory 84, fo. 4b.

1427 Journal 48, fo. 410. Charles was very fond of viewing the pageants on lord mayor's day.—Repertory 77, fos. 270-280b; Repertory 78, fos. 285b, 320, 323b; Repertory 79, fos. 402, 404b; Repertory 80, fos. 295b, 303b; Repertory 81, fo. 329b; Journal 48, fos. 332, 336.

M724 The dissolution of the Cavalier Parliament, 24 Jan., 1679.

M725 The first short parliament, 6 March-27 May, 1679.

1428 During the debate on the Bill, Pilkington had expressed a hope that the duke, who was abroad at the time, would return in order that he might be impeached for high treason.—See "Debates of the House of Commons from the year 1667 to the year 1694, collected by the Honble. Anchitell Grey, Esq...." (London, 1763), vii, 238.

1429 Journal House of Commons, ix, 597-8.

1430 Repertory 84, fos. 122b-124; Journal 49, fo. 41b.

M726 The king's illness and recovery, Aug.-Sept., 1679.

1431 Repertory 84, fo. 202b.

1432 Journal 49, fo. 61.

1433 Repertory 85, fo. 88.

M727 Proclamation against "tumultuous petitions," 12 Dec., 1679.

1434 Journal House of Commons, ix, 635, 636.

1435 Journal 49, fo. 85b.

M728 Petitioners and Abhorrers.

M729 The petition of Common Hall, 29 July, 1680.

1436 "The proceedings at the Guild-Hall in London, on Thursday, July the 29th, 1680"—a tract preserved in the Guildhall Library (A*). A draft of a petition to his majesty on the subject of parliament had been put forward at the Common Hall held on Midsummer-day. See "A true account of the proceedings at the Common Hall ... on Thursday, the 24th of June, 1680, with a copy of the petitions there offered and own'd by the general acclamation of the Hall for the sitting of the parliament, in a letter to a friend in the country."—A printed tract preserved in the same volume.

1437 Journal 49, fo. 148b; Grey, Parliamentary Debates, vii, 463, 464.

1438 Repertory 89, fos. 17, 24b, 28b.

M730 The City's address to the king, 12 Nov., 1680.

M731 The king's reply.

1439 Journal 49, fo. 156b.

1440 Luttrell, Diary, 12 Nov., 1680, i, 60.

M732 The second short parliament, 1680-1681.

1441 Journal 49, fo. 153b.

1442 Kennet, "Hist. of England," iii, 389.

1443 Journal House of Commons, ix, 700-704; Journal 49, fo. 170.

M733 The City's petition to the king for parliament to be allowed to sit, 13 Jan., 1681.

1444 Journal 49, fo. 170-171b. A printed copy is preserved in the Guildhall Library (M 4, 5).

1445 Journal 49, fo. 178.

M734 Parliamentary elections in the city, 1681.

1446 There is a hiatus in the Common Hall books from 1661 to 1717.

1447 "A true narrative of the proceedings at the Guildhall, London, the fourth of this instant February, in their unanimous election of their four members to serve in parliament. With their thanks to them and the petitioning lords."—Book of Tracts preserved in the Guildhall Library ("London Pamphlets," vol. 12, No. 7, M 4, 5).

1448 North's Examen, pp. 101-2; Burnet, ii, 281, note.

M735 Dissolution of the third short parliament, 28 March, 1681.

1449 Speech of Sir Robert Clayton in the House, 25 March.—Parliamentary Debates (Grey), v, 305.

1450 Printed in "Tracts K" (No. 43), in the Guildhall Library.

M736 City's address to the king, presented 19 May, 1681.

1451 Journal 49, fos. 205b-207. A printed copy of the address is to be found among the Tracts preserved in the Guildhall Library ("London Pamphlets," vol. 12, No. 12, M 4, 5).

1452 Luttrell. Diary, 13, 19 and 20 May, 1681 (i, 84, 87, 88).

M737 A re-action in favour of the court party, July, 1681.

1453 Luttrell, Diary, 1 July, 1681 (i, 105). This address, which purported to represent "the act and sense of the generality of apprentices," was disavowed by the Protestant apprentices of the city in an address which they presented to Sir Patience Ward, the ultra-Protestant lord mayor, on the 2nd September (1681), the day appointed for the annual commemoration of the Great Fire, recently proclaimed to have been the work of Papists.—Printed among "Tracts K," No. 74, preserved in the Guildhall Library.

M738 Proceedings against College.

1454 Luttrell, Diary, 8, 12 and 24 July and 17 Aug. (i, 108, 109, 110, 112, 117).

M739 Proceedings against the Earl of Shaftesbury, July-Nov., 1681.

1455 Journal 49, fo. 182b.

1456 Kennet, iii, 400.

M740 The manner of election of sheriffs.

M741 Attempt to restrict the number of electors in the 14th century.

1457 Letter Book C, fo. 62b.

1458 Letter Book D, fos. 3b, 4b.

1459 Letter Book H, fo. 177.

M742 The mayor's claim to elect one of the sheriffs.

1460 Letter Book F, fo. 142.

1461 Journal 39, fo. 230b.

M743 The mayor's prerogative, 1642-1662.

1462 There is no record of the election of sheriffs for this year in the City's Archives.

1463 Journal 45, fo. 223. Pepys remarks that Bludworth and his fellow sheriff were picked by the king, and so were "called with great honour the king's sheriffes."

M744 Appointment of committee of enquiry, 1674.

1464 Journal 48, fo. 68; Letter Book YY, fo. 49.

1465 Journal 48, fo. 72; Letter Book YY, fo. 50b.

M745 Custom of the mayor drinking to a future sheriff, 1674.

1466 Norton's Commentaries (3rd ed., revised), p. 230.

1467 Repertory 79, fos. 267-268, 274, 298, 309b.

1468 Journal 48, fo. 73b; Letter Book YY, fo. 51.

M746 The mayor's prerogative unchallenged, 1675-1679.

M747 Election of Bethell and Cornish Sheriffs, 24 June, 1680.

1469 Journal 49, fo. 111.

1470 Bethell denied having said any such thing, and brought an action for scandal against one who had spread the report.—Luttrell, Diary, 19 May, 1682 (i, 187).

1471 Burnet, ii, 249; Luttrell, Diary, 24 June, 1680 (i, 49).

1472 Sir William Russell was also nominated, but did not go to the poll.

1473 Journal 49, fo. 112.

M748 The character of the new Sheriffs.

1474 Burnet, ii, 248.

1475 Howell, State Trials, xi, 431.

1476 Repertory 85, fo. 224b.

M749 Election of Pilkington and Shute sheriffs, 24 June, 1681.

1477 Again a poll was demanded, the result being Pilkington 3,144 votes, Shute 2,245, Box 1,266, and Nicholson 82 (Journal 49, fo. 226). The Court of Aldermen considered the demand for a poll as to Pilkington's election to be an invasion of the lord mayor's prerogative, he being already in the opinion of the court duly elected and confirmed according to ancient usage. It passed a resolution, therefore, that before the poll was opened Alderman Pilkington should be immediately called out on the husting and returned into the exchequer as one of the sheriffs for the ensuing year (Repertory 86, fo. 153).

M750 The king signifies his displeasure.

1478 The lord mayor elect being Sir John Moore, who was much inclined to favour the court party.

1479 Journal 49, fos. 254, 255b, 261b; Kennet, iii, 401.

M751 Thanks of the Common Hall to the late sheriffs, 27 June, 1681.

1480 Neither this address nor the petition which followed is entered in the City's Archives; printed copies of them, however, are to be found in a book of tracts, etc., preserved in the Guildhall Library ("London Pamphlets," No. 12, M 4, 5).

M752 The mayor desired to present an address to the king, 27 June, 1681.

1481 The address of the 19th May mentioned in the last chapter.

M753 Address to the king, 7 July.

1482 Luttrell, Diary, 7 July, 1681.

M754 Sir John Moore elected mayor, Sept., 1681.

1483 Luttrell, Diary, 29 Sept. (i, 129, 130).

1484 The precise numbers were, for Moore 1,831 votes, Shorter 1,591, Gold 1,523.—Journal 49, fo. 251.

1485 Luttrell, Diary, 7 Oct. (i, 133).

1486 Repertory 86, fo. 208b.

M755 Issue of a Quo Warranto, Jan., 1682.

1487 These were (1) the right to be of themselves a body corporate and politic, by the name of mayor, commonalty and citizens of the city of London, (2) the right to have sheriffs of the city and county of London and county of Middlesex, and to name, elect, make and constitute them, and (3) the right of the mayor and aldermen of the city to be justices of the peace and hold Sessions of the Peace.—Howell, State Trials, viii, p. 1040.

M756 A committee appointed to take steps for the City's defence, 18 Jan., 1682.

1488 Journal 49, fo. 281b.

M757 Rival factions touching election of sheriffs.

1489 The pleadings in the Quo Warranto case, viz., plea, replication, rejoinder, sur-rejoinder, rebutter and sur-rebutter, are set out in Journal 50, fos. 1b-21.

1490 Luttrell, Diary, 6 April, 1682 (i, p. 176).

1491 Luttrell, Diary, 21 April, 1682 (i, 179); Journal 49, fo. 339; Repertory 87, fo. 147; Kennet, iii, p. 407.

M758 The Duke of York and Sheriff Pilkington, June, 1682.

1492 Repertory 87, fo. 146b; Luttrell, Diary, 10 April (i, 177).

1493 Luttrell, Diary, 17 March, 1682 (i, 173).

1494 Repertory 87, fos. 75, 76b; Luttrell, Diary, 25 and 28 Jan., 1682 (i, 160).

1495 Luttrell, i, 192, 195, 196.

M759 The election of sheriffs, 24 June, 1682.

1496 Journal 49, fo. 336.

1497 Journal 49, fo. 317.

M760 Pilkington and Shute committed to the Tower, 26 June, 1682.

1498 Luttrell, Diary, 25 and 30 June, 1682 (i, 197, 200).

M761 Further adjournment of Common Hall to the 5 July.

M762 Again adjourned to 7 July, 1682.

M763 Papillon and Du Bois declared elected.

1499 The fact of a poll having been taken on the 7th July is not mentioned in the Journal; Luttrell (who by the way is often wrong in his figures) gives the result of the poll thus, Papillon 2,754, Dubois 2,709, Box 1,609 and North 1,557 (Diary, i, 203).

M764 Counsel's opinion as to right of adjourning Common Hall.

1500 Luttrell gives the names of Sir George Jeffreys, the late recorder, and Mr. Sanders as the counsel consulted by the lord mayor, and of Mr. Williams and Mr. Pollexfen for the sheriffs (Diary, i, 204). Another writer remarks that "it is to be observed that on reference to the recorder [Sir George Treby] upon this occasion by the Court of Aldermen he declared, without hesitation, that the full right of election was in the livery. The mode of taking the poll and of adjournment by the sheriffs was strictly consonant to ancient usage" (Norton, "Comment. History of London," 3rd ed., pp. 231-2). From a printed tract preserved in the Guildhall Library (A* No. 27) entitled "An Impartial Account of the Proceedings of the Common Hall of the City of London of Guildhall, June the 24th, 1682, for electing of sheriffs," it appears that the opinion of the recorder had been asked and delivered to the Court of Aldermen on the 23rd June.

M765 A fresh election ordered.

1501 Repertory 87, fo. 209b; Luttrell, Diary, 13 July (i, 205, 206).

M766 The City's account of proceedings of Common Hall, 14 July, 1682.

1502 .Cf. Repertory 87, fo. 209b.

1503 "The Domestick Intelligence" (Tracts A* No. 18).—Luttrell Diary, 15 July, 1682 (i, 206).

M767 Petitions for Papillon and Du Bois to be called upon to take office, July, 1682.

1504 Repertory 27, fos. 212, 214.

M768 The mayor's unsatisfactory reply, 27 July.

1505 Repertory 87, fos. 216b.

1506 Luttrell, Diary, 27 July, 1682 (i, 209, 210).

M769 Box discharged sheriff, 5 Sept.

1507 Repertory 87, fos. 221b, 222; Luttrell, Diary, 5 Sept. (i, 217).

M770 More petitions to the Court of Aldermen, 12, 14 Sept.

1508 Luttrell, Diary, 12 Sept., 1682 (i, 218, 219).

1509 A printed copy will be found, Tracts preserved in the Guildhall Library (A* No. 28).

1510 Repertory 87, fos. 230b-231.

M771 Proceedings of Common Hall, 19 Sept.

M772 Peter Rich a candidate loco Box.

1511 Luttrell, Diary, i, 220, 221.

1512 Journal 49, fo. 347.

M773 Pilkington and Shute to appear before the King's Bench, 20 Sept., 1682.

1513 Luttrell, i, 221.

M774 Rich enters into bond to take office, 26 Sept., 1682.

1514 Repertory 87, fo. 233.

M775 North and Rich sworn into office, 28 Sept.

1515 Luttrell, Diary, 28 Sept., 1682 (i, 224).

1516 Repertory 87, fo. 253.

M776 The Mercers' Company and Sheriff North.

1517 Luttrell, i, 223.

M777 Sworn information of Henry Cornish as to what took place in the Guildhall, 28 Sept., 1682.

1518 Information (dated 2 Oct.) preserved in the Town Clerk's office.

1519 Luttrell, i, 225.

M778 Election of Pritchard, mayor, loco Moore, Sept., 1682.

1520 For his "prudence and courage" displayed during his mayoralty Charles granted him an augmentation of arms, viz., on a canton gules "one of our lyons of England." Letters Patent, dated 28 Sept., 1683.—Journal 50, fo. 119; Letter Book ZZ, fo. 7.

1521 These are the numbers as given in a return made by the scrutineers on behalf of Gold and Cornish, dated 24 Oct.—See Printed Tracts, Guildhall Library, vol. 12, No. 9 and A* No. 30*. They vary slightly from those given by Luttrell (Diary, i, 226).

1522 Repertory 87, fo. 258.

1523 Luttrell, Diary, 4 Oct., 1682 (i, 226).

1524 Journal 49, fo. 349.

M779 A mandamus to swear in Gold or Cornish refused.

1525 Luttrell, Diary, 24 Nov., 1682 (i, 240).

M780 The Duke of York's action against Pilkington for slander, 24 Nov., 1682.

1526 Luttrell, i, 192, 240, 241.

1527 Repertory 88, fo. 38b.

M781 Pilkington and others fined for disturbance last Midsummer-day, 16 Feb., 1683.

1528 Howell, State Trials, ix, 187-294; Luttrell, Diary, i, 250, 257, 262-3; Kennet, Hist., iii, 408.

M782 Sir Patience Ward tried and convicted of perjury, 19 May, 1683.

1529 Luttrell, Diary, 19 and 21 May, 1683. According to Burnet (i, 338), Ward had deposed that "to the best of his remembrance these words were not spoken by Pilkington," and thereupon Jeffreys had brutally remarked that Ward's invention was better than his memory.

M783 The new Common Council, 21 Dec., 1682.

1530 Journal 49, fos. 383, 383b.

1531 Luttrell, Diary, Dec., 1682 (ed. 1857, i, 242).

M784 The first hearing of the Quo Warranto case, 7 Feb., 1683.

1532 Referring to the taking of market tolls.

M785 The speech of the City's Recorder.

1533 Set out in full in Journal 50, fos. 40b-60b.

M786 Speech of the attorney-general at the second hearing, 27 April.

1534 This is the date given by Howell (State Trials, viii, p. 1147), but according to Luttrell, the second hearing took place on the 30th April and the 1st May.

1535 Howell, State Trials, viii, pp. 1147, 1148.

M787 Judgment pronounced against the City, 12 June, 1683.

M788 Minutes of the Common Council reflecting on the late king ordered to be expunged from the Journals, 6 June, 1683.

1536 Journal 50, fos. 32-38. See frontispiece to this volume.

M789 City address to the king, 18 June, 1683.

1537 So says the city record.—Journal 50, fo. 81. According to Luttrell the motion was only carried by a majority of 18 votes.

1538 Journal 50, fo. 82. A copy of the petition and the lord keeper's reply on behalf of his majesty (printed and published by his majesty's special command) is among tracts preserved in the Guildhall Library (A* No. 32).

M790 Speech of the lord keeper.

M791 The City accept the king's terms, 20 June, 1683.

1539 Journal 50, fo. 83; Repertory 88, fo. 152.

M792 The mayor and others arrested, 24 April.

1540 Repertory 88, fos. 13, 59; Luttrell, Diary, i, 235, 240.

1541 Luttrell, Diary, i, 256.

M793 Indignation of the Court of Aldermen and the Common Council.

1542 Repertory 88, fo. 128.

1543 Journal 50, fo. 31b.

1544 Id., fo. 31.

M794 Pritchard recovers L10,000 damages, 6 Nov., 1684.

1545 "An exact account of the trial between Sir William Pritchard ... and Thomas Papillon ... in an action upon the case ... at the Guildhall, 6th of November, 1684."—Among printed tracts preserved in the Guildhall Library (A* No. 2); Luttrell, Diary, 6 Nov. (i, 319).

M795 The Rye House Plot, 1683.

1546 According to Luttrell (i, 262), the plot was discovered about the 19th June.

1547 Journal 50, fo. 84.

1548 Trial of Alderman Cornish on a charge of high treason. Goodenough's evidence.—Howell, State Trials, xi, 426.

1549 Journal 50, fo. 83b.

M796 The question of surrender or no surrender of the City's franchise, Sept.-Oct., 1683.

1550 The opinions are fully set out in Journal 50, fos. 96-100b.

1551 Journal 50, fo. 98; Luttrell, Diary, 2 Oct.

M797 Judgment against the City entered up, 4 Oct., 1683.

1552 Kennet, iii, 416.

1553 Repertory 88, fo. 184.

1554 Repertory 88, fo. 188b; Journal 50, fo. 100b; Luttrell, Diary, i, 285.

M798 The king's action against the livery companies.

M799 Death of the king, 6 Feb., 1685.

1555 Repertory 90, fo. 46.

M800 The Accession of James II, 6 Feb., 1685.

1556 Journal 50, fo. 128.

1557 Id., fo. 129b.

M801 The question of continuation of customs and excise.

1558 Journal 50, fo. 129.

1559 Journal 50, fo. 130; Burnet, iii, 10; Luttrell, i, 330.

M802 The coronation of king and queen, 23 April, 1685.

1560 Journal 50, fo. 131; Repertory 90, fo. 61.

1561 Repertory 90, fo. 72b, 78b-79.

1562 Id., fo. 76.

M803 A Tory parliament, 1685.

1563 Burnet, iii, 16. "There have been quo warranto'es brought against divers corporations ... with what design is easily apparent."—Luttrell, Diary, Feb., 1684 (i, 302).

1564 Mayor's precept, 5 May, 1685.—Journal 50, fo. 134.

1565 Journal House of Commons, ix, 715.

M804 Oates and Dangerfield whipt at the cart's tail, May, 1685.

1566 Journal 50, fo. 135b.

M805 Richard Baxter brought to trial, 30 May, 1685.

1567 Kennet, iii, 446, 447.

M806 The Monmouth Rebellion, 1685.

1568 Journal 50, fos. 136-137b.

M807 Trial of Cornish and others, 19 Oct., 1685.

1569 Goodenough had been nominated under-sheriff by Bethell against the wish of Cornish, and much discussion had arisen between the two sheriffs in consequence.

1570 Howell, State Trials, xi, 426.

M808 Execution of Cornish, 23 Oct., 1685.

1571 Howell, State Trials, xi, 450, 451; Burnet, iii, 65, 66.

1572 Journal House of Commons, x, 193.

M809 Execution of Mrs. Gaunt, 23 Oct.

1573 Burnet, iii, 62.

M810 The revocation of the Edict of Nantes, Oct., 1685.

M811 Session of parliament, 9-20 Nov., 1685.

1574 Journal 50, fo. 143.

1575 Journal House of Commons, ix, 761.

M812 James and the Catholics, 1686.

1576 Godden v. Sir Edward Hales, an action for debt of L500 brought upon the Test Act 25 Chas. II, c. 2.—Luttrell. i, 380, 382.

1577 Repertory 91. fo. 23.

1578 Luttrell, i, 373-375.

1579 Ellis Correspondence, 27 April, 1686, 2nd series, iv, 94.

M813 The camp at Hounslow opened, 28 May, 1686.

1580 Ellis Correspondence, 2nd series, iv, 94.

1581 Luttrell, i, 378.

M814 The Declaration of Indulgence, 4 April, 1687.

1582 Journal 50, fo. 191a.

M815 Corporations further "regulated," 1687.

1583 Luttrell, i, 420, 421.

1584 "There has been a review in the several companies of London: great alterations have been made therein; those of the violent Tories are generally removed out of the Court of Assistants, 'tis said to the number of about 900 persons, insomuch that some have esteemed it a scandall to be kept in."—Luttrell, i, 415.

M816 The king and the Court of Aldermen, June, 1687.

1585 Repertory 92, fo. 274.

1586 Id., fo. 275.

1587 Luttrell, i, 410, 411; Repertory 92, fos. 277, 283, 287, 291, 293, 299-301, etc.

M817 Thanks from Court of Aldermen for Declaration, 26 July, 1687.

1588 Repertory 92, fos. 330, 334.

1589 Luttrell, i, 411.

M818 William Kiffin appointed by the king alderman of Cheap, 6 Aug., 1687.

M819 His reluctance to accept office.

M820 At last consents, and is sworn, 27 Oct., 1687.

1590 See "The life of Mr. William Kiffin, upwards of sixty years pastor of the Baptist church, Devonshire square, London, from 1639 to 1701; and one of the five aldermen appointed by James II, in the year 1687, when that popish and despotic monarch disfranchised the city of London," by Joseph Ivimey, London, 1833.

1591 Repertory 92, fo. 525.

M821 Sir John Shorter, mayor, Oct., 1687.

1592 Diary, i, 643.

1593 Luttrell, i, 414.

1594 Repertory 88, fos. 43b, 90b.

1595 Original commission preserved in the Town Clerk's office.

1596 Repertory 92, fo. 496.

1597 Kiffin's Autobiographies ("Life of Kiffin," by Joseph Ivimey), pp. 88, 89.

1598 Luttrell, i, 417, 418.

M822 The Dissenters supreme in the city.

1599 Luttrell, i, 416, 418, 420.

1600 Id., i, 419.

1601 "The 27th (Nov.) Dr. Stillingfleet preached at Guildhall chappel, and afterwards was invited to dine with the lord mayor, and his lordship's coach was sent for him, but he refused to goe, his lordship not being to hear him preach."—Luttrell, i, 422.

1602 Repertory 93, fos. 44, 46b, 48b; Luttrell, i, 427, 428. The Court of Aldermen not being able to come to a decision whether to allow the Chapel to be turned into a conventicle or not, a compromise appears to have been effected by shutting up the Chapel altogether.—Luttrell, i, 467.

M823 The second Declaration of Indulgence, 27 April, 1688.

1603 Lingard, xiv, 195-197.

1604 Luttrell, i, 440.

1605 Burnet, iii, 229.

M824 The seven bishops committed to the Tower.

1606 Luttrell, i, 442.

1607 Burnet, iii, 232.

1608 Luttrell, i, 444.

M825 Trial and acquittal of the bishops, 29 and 30 June, 1688.

1609 Burnet, iii, 237.

M826 Disaffection among the troops at Hounslow.

1610 Luttrell, i, 448; Burnet, iii, 236, 237.

M827 The birth of Prince Charles Edward, 10 June, 1688.

1611 Repertory 93, fo. 157.

1612 Id., fos. 164b, 167b.

M828 Invitation to William of Orange, 30 June, 1688.

1613 Luttrell, i, 462.

1614 Journal 50, fo. 350b.

M829 Restoration of the City's liberties, 6 Oct., 1688.

1615 He had been appointed mayor by Letters Patent (7 Sept.) to succeed Sir John Shorter, who had died from the effects of a fall from his horse on the occasion of his opening St. Bartholomew fair in Smithfield (Luttrell, i, 458-459). Eyles was to continue in office during the king's pleasure.

1616 The deed of restitution under the great seal, dated the 3rd October, as well as Chapman's commission to be mayor, dated the 5th October are preserved at the Guildhall (Charter Closet, Box No. 24).

1617 Repertory 94, fos. 1-3.

1618 Id., fos. 4-5.

1619 Journal 50, fo. 352. Sir Humphrey Edwin was re-elected, and with him John Fleet, in place of Sir Samuel Thomson. Both Edwin and Fleet prayed to be discharged, but the Court of Aldermen refused.—Repertory 94, fos. 13, 14.

1620 Repertory 94, fo. 17.

1621 Repertory 94, fo. 77; Id. 96, fo. 312. "The citty of London, since the refusal of Sir George Treby to be their recorder, have made choice of Mr. Sommers, of the Inner Temple, but he also refused it; then they pitcht upon Mr. Conyers, but he declined it, as also Mr. Selby."—Luttrell, i, 471.

1622 Repertory 94, fo. 69.

1623 Journal 50, fo. 361.

M830 Writs for a new parliament.

1624 Luttrell, i, 463, 479, 480; Journal 50, fo. 351.

M831 Question as to the legitimacy of Prince Charles, 20 Oct., 1688.

1625 Luttrell, i, 470.

1626 Journal 50, fo. 354.

M832 A "mass house" in the city wrecked by the mob, 29 Oct., 1688.

1627 Journal 50, fos. 354b, 355b; Luttrell, i, 472.

M833 Arrival of William and his march on London, Nov., 1688.

1628 Luttrell, i, 473.

1629 Luttrell, i, 477. The mayor had already issued his precept (14 Nov.) to the livery companies for them to lay in their full stock of corn as they were bound to do for the provision of the city "upon any necessary occasion, as dearth or other emergency."—Journal 50, fo. 356.

M834 Renewed attacks made on Catholics in London.

1630 Luttrell, i, 475.

1631 Id., i, 478.

1632 Journal 50, fo. 358.

M835 Proceeding in the city after the king's flight, 11 Dec., 1688.

1633 Printed in Kennet's History, iii, 500.

1634 Repertory 94, fo. 74-75.

1635 Journal 50, fo. 363. The address is entered neither in the Journal nor Letter Book, although space is left for the purpose in both volumes. It is printed, however, by Maitland ("Hist. of London," i, 488) from Eachard's "Hist. of England."

1636 Maitland, i, 488.

1637 Repertory 94, fo. 75.

M836 Letter from the prince to the city, 17 Dec., 1688.

1638 Journal 50, fos. 364, 364b; Letter Book ZZ, fos. 134, 134b.

M837 The prince enters London, 18 Dec.

1639 Journal 50, fo. 364b; Letter Book ZZ, fo. 135.

1640 Maitland, i, 489.

M838 A representative assembly meet to discuss the state of affairs, 26 Dec., 1688.

M839 A Convention Parliament to meet, 22 Jan., 1689.

1641 Members of James's parliament were not summoned on the ground that, owing to the Corporations having suffered "regulations" at the hands of the king, it was no true parliament.

1642 Kennet, iii, 505.

1643 Repertory 94, fo. 80.

1644 Luttrell, i, 382.

M840 Letter from the prince desiring a city loan, 8 Jan., 1689.

1645 Journal 50, fo. 365; Letter Book ZZ, fo. 135b; Journal 51, fo. 14b. The sum required by the prince is stated to have been L200,000, of which sum Sir Samuel Dashwood is said to have subscribed no less than L60,000.—Kennet, iii, 507; Maitland, i, 490.

1646 Subscription lists of the several wards and other documents in respect of this loan are preserved in the chamberlain's office.—See Report on Corporation Records, 16 Dec., 1869, Appendix iii, p. 52.

1647 Journal 50, fo. 365b; Letter Book ZZ, fo. 136b; Repertory 94. fo. 87.

M841 Meeting of the convention parliament, 22 Jan., 1689.

1648 The precept is printed in Maitland's Hist. (i, 491). Only the first word, "Whereas," is set out in the City's Archives (Repertory 94, fo. 94), space being left for the remainder.

M842 William and Mary proclaimed king and queen, 13 Feb., 1689.

1649 Journal House of Commons, x, 28, 29.

1650 Journal 50, fo. 365b; Letter Book ZZ, fo. 137.

M843 Coronation of William and Mary, 11 April, 1689.

1651 Repertory 95, fo. 2b.

1652 Report in relation to the appointment of twelve citizens of London to assist at the coronations of the kings and queens of England.—Presented to the Common Council, 18 Aug., 1831 (printed), pp. 8-9.

1653 Repertory 95, fos. 2b, 4.

M844 Order for reversal of judgment on the Quo Warranto, May, 1689.

1654 Journal House of Commons, x, 31, 33, 34.

1655 Id., x, 35.

1656 Id., x, 41, 51.

M845 Further Report of Committee of Grievances, 29 May, 1689.

1657 Journal House of Commons, x, 156-160.

M846 Draft Bill for reversal of judgment submitted to Common Council, 24 May, 1689.

1658 Journal 50, fos. 366, 373b-377b; Letter Book ZZ, fo. 137b.

M847 The Court of Orphans.

M848 Orphans' petition to Common Council, 1 March, 1689.

1659 Journal 50, fos. 366, 366b.

M849 Proposals of committee, 8 March, 1689.

1660 Id., fo. 369.

M850 The king's proposal to abolish the Hearth Tax, 1 March, 1689.

1661 Journal House of Commons, x, 38, 39.

1662 Journal 50, fo. 369b; Luttrell, i, 509, 510.

1663 Journal House of Commons, x, 46, 47.

M851 Death of Lord Mayor Chapman, 17 March, 1689.

1664 Repertory 94, fos. 124, 125.

M852 Pilkington elected Mayor, 20 March, 1689.

1665 Luttrell, i, 513, 514.

1666 Journal 51, fo. 1.

1667 Luttrell, i, 520.

M853 Lethieullier and Houblon, sheriffs, 24 June, 1689.

1668 Journal 51, fo. 4.

1669 Repertory 95, fos. 34, 43b.

M854 The attainder of Cornish reversed, June, 1689.

1670 Luttrell, i, 503, 609.

1671 Journal House of Commons, x, 192.

1672 Luttrell, i, 596.

M855 Proceedings against North, Nov., 1689.

1673 Journal House of Lords, xiv, 383, 384; "Life of Dudley North," by Roger North, iii, 189, 190.

1674 Journal 51, fo. 30b, where his name appears as "Browne."

M856 The siege of Londonderry, April-July, 1689.

1675 Luttrell, i, 515, 516.

1676 In the porch of Londonderry Cathedral there is a mural tablet bearing the following lines:—

IF STONES COVLD SPEAKE THEN LONDONS PRAYSE SHOVLD SOVNDE WHO BVILT THIS CHVRCH AND CITTIE FROM THE GROVNDE.

Many pieces of ordnance bore the arms of the several city companies of Fishmongers, Vintners and Merchant Taylors. One gun, the gift of the first-mentioned company, acquired the name of Roaring Meg from the loudness of its report.

1677 "A true account of the siege of Londonderry," by the Rev. Mr. George Walker, rector of "Donoghmoore in the county of Tirone," and late governor of Derry in Ireland (1689). The Guildhall copy of this work contains a modern photograph of the interior of the porch of the cathedral of Londonderry, showing a shell which was used for the purpose above mentioned and the mural tablet mentioned in the preceding note.

1678 Luttrell, i, 575.

1679 Id., i, 577.

M857 Intercepted letters laid before the Common Council, 19 June, 1689.

1680 Journal 50, fo. 371.

M858 The king and queen entertained at the Guildhall, 29 Oct., 1689.

1681 Luttrell, i, 585, 586.

1682 Journal 51, fos. 11b, 12, 24, 24b.

1683 Journal House of Commons, x, 276.

1684 Luttrell, i, 597.

M859 The king's picture in the Guildhall mutilated, Nov., 1689.

1685 Repertory 95, fo. 72b; Luttrell, i, 606, 607.

M860 Bill for restoring corporations passed. 6 Jan., 1690.

1686 Journal House of Commons, x, 277, 284, 312.

1687 Id., x, 322, 323, 329, 330.

1688 Id., x, 322.

M861 The Convention Parliament dissolved, 6 Feb., 1690.

1689 Journal 51, fos. 25b, 28b, 29, 32, 101.

1690 Id., 51. fo. 26.

M862 Parliamentary elections, Feb., 1690.

1691 Journal House of Commons, x, 363.

1692 Journal 51, fos. 26b, 28, 28b.

1693 Luttrell, iii, 32, 47, 48.

1694 "We hear from all parts the great contests that are about the election of parliament men, that there is hardly any county or town but they stand double."—Luttrell, ii, 16.

M863 The reversal of judgment on the Quo Warranto, 14 May, 1690.

1695 Journal 51, fos. 12b, 30, 32b-36b.

1696 Journal House of Commons, x, 371, 372.

1697 Id., x, 377.

1698 Id., x, 407, 408.

1699 Journal House of Lords, xiv, 490, 491, 495, 498.

M864 Election of City officers, pursuant to the Act, 26 May, 1690.

1700 The result of the poll is given as follows: Pilkington 2,097 votes, Clayton 1,885, Raymond 2,120 and Daniel 1,860.—Journal 51, fo. 45; Repertory 95, fo. 139.

1701 Journal 51, fo. 45; Repertory 95, fo. 139b.

1702 Journal 51, fos. 4, 45b.

M865 Election of Common Council, 10 June, 1690.

1703 Id., fo. 58; Luttrell, ii, 55.

1704 Repertory 95, fo. 137.

M866 Complaint made to parliament, 3 Dec., 1690.

M867 The matter allowed to drop, 11 Dec., 1690.

1705 Journal House of Commons, x, 492.

1706 On the 4th December the Court of Aldermen appointed a committee to draw up a defence.—Repertory 95, fo. 201b.

1707 Journal House of Commons, x, 501, 503.

1708 Luttrell, ii, 141. The diarist ascribes the petition to Papist influence and to "the hotspurs generally."

M868 The king sets out for Ireland, 4 June, 1690.

1709 Journal 51, fos. 48, 48b, 99b.

1710 Luttrell, ii, 50.

1711 Burnet, "Hist. of His Own Time," iv, 85.

1712 Repertory 95, fo. 141.

M869 The aid of the City called in against France, 7 July, 1690.

1713 Established in 1661 by Stat. 13 and 14 Chas. II, c. 3.

1714 Luttrell, ii, 72.

1715 Macaulay, chap. xv.

1716 Journal 51, fo. 103b.

1717 Repertory 95, fo. 151b.

1718 Journal 51, fos. 49, 102, 104b.

1719 Luttrell, ii, 75.

1720 Luttrell, ii, 80.

M870 A city loan of L100,000, 22 July, 1690.

1721 Journal 51, fo. 37; entered again, fo. 56.

M871 The queen returns thanks to the city, 15 August, 1690.

1722 Luttrell, ii, 90.

M872 The king's return from Ireland, Sept.

1723 Id., ii, 84.

1724 Id., ii, 102.

1725 Repertory 95, fo. 163.

1726 Luttrell, ii, 103.

1727 Journal 51, fos. 37b, 56b (duplicate entries); Luttrell, ii, 106.

M873 The king attends a congress at the Hague, 1691.

1728 Repertory 95, fo. 206; Luttrell, ii, 153.

1729 Id., ii, 208.

M874 Jacobite plots in England.

M875 The king again leaves for the continent, 2 May.

1730 On the 5th February, 1691, a proclamation was issued for the arrest of the late Bishop of Ely, William Penn, and James Graham, for complicity in Preston's Plot. Warrants were already out against them, but they had hitherto evaded capture.—Journal 51, fo. 109b.

M876 City loans, 1691-1692.

1731 Journal 51, fos. 83, 113b.

1732 Id., fos. 77, 110.

1733 17 Sept., 1691.—Journal 51, fos. 98, 114.

1734 Id., fos. 116, 160, 187b, 240, 213b.

1735 Id., fos. 123, 123b, 166.

M877 Elections in Common Hall, 24 June, 1691.

1736 Journal 51, fo. 83b.

1737 By Act of Common Council, 15 June, 1694.

1738 Luttrell, ii, 250.

1739 Repertory 95, fo. 297b.

1740 Journal 51, fo. 84.

M878 A Bill to settle elections of sheriffs prepared by Court of Aldermen, April, 1692.

M879 The Bill rejected by Common Council.

1741 Repertory 96, fos. 216, 244.

1742 Journal 51, fos. 161, 167.

M880 Act of Common Council for regulating elections at wardmotes, 26 Oct., 1692.

1743 Id., fos. 167b, 187, 193.

1744 Id., fo. 211.

1745 Luttrell, ii, 319.

M881 The king's return, Oct., 1691.

1746 Luttrell, ii, 296.

1747 Journal 51, fo. 142; Luttrell, ii, 303

M882 Again sets out for Holland, March, 1692.

1748 Luttrell, ii, 385.

M883 City loan of L200,000 to the queen, 18 March, 1692.

1749 Journal 51, fos. 116, 160.

1750 Luttrell, ii, 395, 405.

M884 Preparations to meet a threatened invasion by France, April, 1692.

1751 Journal 51, fo. 121b; Luttrell, ii, 434, 435.

1752 Luttrell, ii, 429.

1753 Id., ii, 429, 443-445.

1754 Luttrell, ii, 447.

M885 Battle of La Hogue, 19 May, 1692.

1755 Id., ii, 460.

M886 City loan of L100,000 voted, 26 May.

1756 Journal 51, fos. 123, 123b, 166.

M887 A further loan of L200,000 granted, 6 Sept., 1692.

1757 Luttrell, ii, 555.

1758 Journal 51, fos. 187b, 240.

1759 Luttrell, ii, 561.

M888 The king entertained on lord mayor's day, 29 Oct., 1692

1760 Repertory 96, fo. 504.

1761 Repertory 96, fos. 312, 317; Luttrell, ii, 598.

M889 The City desired to advance another loan of L200,000, Oct., 1692

1762 Repertory 96, fo. 517. The lord mayor is said to have subscribed L300, each sheriff L150 and the aldermen L50 a-piece.—Luttrell, ii, 603.

1763 Journal 51, fo. 213b.

1764 Luttrell, ii, 603.

M890 Another City loan of L200,000, 25 April, 1693.

1765 Journal 51, fo. 251. A Bill for this purpose had been introduced into the House of Commons on the 15th December, 1692. It was read a third time on the 20th January, 1693, and carried up to the Lords, by whom it was passed without amendment.—Journal House of Commons, x, 744, 784.

M891 The Turkey fleet intercepted at Lagos Bay, June, 1693.

M892 Excitement in the city.

1766 Luttrell, iii, 116, 125, 126, 131, 135-137, 139.

1767 According to Luttrell (Diary, iii, 141, 142) the Turkey merchants had desired the Court of Aldermen to present a petition to the queen on their behalf, but the lord mayor declined on the ground that he ought to have been first consulted on the matter. The merchants afterwards made a similar application to the Common Council, but with no better success.

M893 City address to the queen and another loan of L300,000, 15 Aug., 1693.

1768 Journal 51, fos. 272b-273b, 275.

M894 The queen invited to lord mayor's banquet, 30 Oct., 1693.

1769 Repertory 97, fo. 496.

1770 Repertory 97, fo. 503.

M895 The king's return to England, 29 Oct., 1693.

1771 Negotiations were opened in the following year for acquiring the Grocers' Hall as a mansion house for the mayor for the time being.—Journal 52, fo. 14.

1772 Luttrell, iii, 215, 216.

1773 Id., iii, 218.

M896 The rise of the East India Company, 1600-1689.

1774 "Memoirs of Thomas Papillon," by A.F.W. Papillon (Guildhall Library), pp. 78-81.

1775 Macaulay, chap, xviii.

M897 A New Company formed, 1689.

M898 Rivalry between the Old and the New Company.

1776 Journal House of Commons, x, 655, 661.

1777 This bribe appears to have failed, for notice was actually served on the company in April, 1692.—Luttrell, ii, 357, 433.

1778 Journal House of Commons, x, 835.

1779 Luttrell, iii, 203.

M899 Alderman Sir Thomas Cook governor of the Old Company in place of Child.

1780 He was elected alderman of Queenhithe ward on the 11th February, 1692, in succession to Sir John Lawrence, deceased (Repertory 96, fo. 153). A goldsmith by trade (at the sign of the Griffin in Change Alley), he became one of the greatest merchants of London. He was a near kinsman of Sir Josiah Child, and sat for Colchester from 1689 down to Queen Anne's first parliament (Parliamentary Returns, 1878, part i, pp. 556, 580, 587, 594, 602). He was sheriff in 1692-3, but was never lord mayor.

M900 The stoppage of the ship "Redbridge," 21 Oct., 1693.

1781 The charter was dated the 11th November, 1693.—See Journal House of Commons, xi, 43.

1782 Journal House of Commons, xi, 43.

1783 Id., xi, 49, 50.

1784 Id., xi, 64, 65.

1785 In 1813 the City petitioned parliament that trade with India and China might be exclusively with the port of London.—Journal 87, fos. 208 seq., 442b seq., 457 seq.; Journal House of Commons, lxviii, 145.

M901 The City's petition re debts to orphans, 1691.

1786 Journal 51, fos. 142-144; Luttrell, ii, 307.

1787 Journal House of Commons, x, 562, 571.

1788 Journal 51, fos. 214-215.

1789 Id., fo. 214*b.

M902 The Orphans' Bill of 1693.

1790 Journal 51, fos. 238b, 239; Journal House of Commons, x, 817, 820, 821, 824, 836; Luttrell, iii, 42, 44.

1791 Journal House of Commons, x, 839, 843.

M903 A fresh scheme, Feb., 1694.

1792 Journal House of Commons, xi, 14, 98, 99.

1793 They superseded the lamps known as "Heming's lamps" (from Edmund Heming, the inventor), with which the streets were for the first time systematically lighted in 1687.

1794 A scheme was set on foot in September, 1692, for conveying water in leaden pipes from the Banquetting House in the Tyburn Road to the Stocks Market in the city, and in December, 1693, the city granted a licence to William Paterson, whose name is well known in connection with the foundation of the Bank of England, to lay pipes for supplying water to the inhabitants of the manor and borough of Southwark.—Journal 51, fos. 214, 285b.

M904 City Orphans' Act passed, March, 1694.

1795 Stat. 5 William and Mary, c. 10.

1796 Journal House of Commons, xi, 102, 125, 135; Journal House of Lords, xv, 399. In 1748, when the term of fifty years, for which the City was allowed an additional duty on coal, was drawing to a close, application was made to parliament for a continuation of the duty. An Act was in consequence passed authorising the City to take the duty for an additional term of thirty-five years.—Journal 59, fo. 116b; Journal House of Commons, xxv, 506, 570, 599, 623.

M905 City loan of L200,000, 6 March, 1694.

1797 Journal 51, fos. 295b, 297; Luttrell, iii, 279, 288.

1798 Journal 51, fo. 305.

1799 Journal 52, fo. 51.

M906 The foundation of the Bank of England, April, 1694.

1800 Journal House of Commons, xi, 143, 144.

1801 Macaulay, chap. xx.

1802 Burnet, iv, 223.

1803 Journal House of Commons, xi, 162.

1804 Journal House of Commons, xi, 165, 170; Journal House of Lords, xv, 424.

1805 Luttrell, iii, 329, 342; Cf. List of directors printed in Appendix to Francis's "History of the Bank" (ii, 262).

1806 Luttrell, iii, 331-2, 333-4, 336, 338.

1807 The picture drawn by Macaulay ("History of England," chap. xx) of the chancellor of the exchequer going, hat in hand, up and down Cheapside and Cornhill, attended by the lord mayor and aldermen, and borrowing L100 from this hosier and L200 from that ironmonger, is altogether too fanciful.

1808 Journal 52, fos. 91, 113b, 142, 142b.

M907 The death of Queen Mary, 28 Dec, 1694.

1809 Luttrell, iii, 419.

1810 Repertory 99, fo. 189.

1811 Journal 52, fos. 35b, 36, 58b. The address is not entered in the Journal, but it is printed by Maitland (i, 498).

1812 Luttrell, iii, 433, 443.

M908 The queen's funeral, 5 March, 1695.

1813 Repertory 99, fos. 245, 262.

1814 See above, chap. xii.

1815 Repertory 99, fo. 320.

1816 Luttrell, iii, 446-447.

M909 Discovery of corrupt practices, 1695.

M910 The Speaker convicted of bribery.

1817 Journal House of Commons, xi, 258.

1818 Journal House of Commons, xi, 269. The committee further set out an extract from the Chamberlain's account of cash notifying payment. The minutes of the Corporation committee containing the above order are not to be found; and the Chamberlain's Journal or Cash Account for June, 1694, is also missing. But the following entry occurs in a book containing Chamberlain's accounts from the 29th September, 1693, to 29th September, 1694, under the heading "Guifts and Rewards":—"To the Honourable Sr. John Trevor, Knt., Speaker of the House of Commons, by order of the committee (appointed by order Common Councell to consider of wayes and meanes for satisfyeing the debts due to the orphans and other creditors of the city and to solicit the parliament for a Bill for that purpose), one thousand guineas, which at 2s. change is eleaven hundred pounds (L1,100)."—Chamberlain's Account Book, marked 1/21 fo. 136.

1819 Journal House of Commons, xi, 270, 271.

M911 The Speaker expelled the House, 16 March, 1695.

1820 Id., xi, 271, 274.

M912 Transactions between the City and the Marquis of Normanby.

1821 Journal 52, fo. 37b.

1822 Evidence of Sir Robert Clayton.—Journal House of Lords, xv, 551.

1823 Journal House of Lords, xv, 546-558.

M913 Corrupt practices of East India Company in connection with its charter.

1824 Journal House of Commons, xi, 268.

M914 Sir Thomas Cook and Sir Basil Firebrace.

1825 He had been appointed alderman of the Ward of Billingsgate by commission of James II in 1687, in which year he also served as sheriff.—Repertory 92, fo. 363.

1826 Journal House of Commons, xi, 267-269.

1827 Id., xi, 283.

1828 Id., xi, 285, 291, 293, 294, 295.

1829 Journal House of Commons, xi, 307, 308; Journal House of Lords, xv, 543, 544, 559; Luttrell, iii, 462. Macaulay (chap. xxi) describes Cook as presenting a very abject appearance at the Bar, imploring the Peers, "with tears and lamentations," not to subject him to "a species of torture unknown to the mild laws of England."

M915 Examination of Cook, 23 April, 1695.

1830 Journal House of Commons, xi, 317.

M916 Examination of Firebrace, 24-26 April, 1695.

1831 Journal House of Commons, xi, 320, 321.

1832 Id., xi, 322, 323.

M917 Evidence of Josiah Child, 26 April, 1695.

M918 Cook and Firebrace committed to the Tower.

1833 Journal House of Commons, xi, 327, 329; Journal House of Lords, xv, 580; Luttrell, iii, 466.

1834 Luttrell, iv, 51, 404.

M919 The Old and the New Company agree to unite, 22 July, 1702.

1835 An indenture tripartite between the queen, the old company and the new was executed the 22nd July, 1702, by the terms of which the companies were to become united at the end of seven years.

1836 Luttrell, v, 168.

1837 Id., v, 284.

1838 Repertory 108, fo. 589; Id. 113, fo. 387; Journal 54, fo. 61; Luttrell, vi, 486.

M920 Jacobite tumults during the king's absence abroad, May-Oct., 1695.

1839 Luttrell, iii, 483-484.

1840 Id., iii, 512.

M921 Elections for a triennial parliament, Oct., 1695.

1841 Id., iii, 536, 537.

1842 Luttrell, iii, 538, 540, 542.

1843 Id., iii, 541, 543.

M922 The Barclay conspiracy, 1696.

1844 Journal 52, fo. 78b.

M923 The signing of associations.

1845 Journal House of Commons, xi, 465-468.

1846 Journal 52, fos. 79, 79b, 109b, 110b; Luttrell, iv, 65.

M924 Bill of Attainder against Sir John Fenwick.

1847 Journal 52, fos. 108, 110b; Repertory 100, fo. 78b.

1848 Journal 52, fo. 109b.

1849 Repertory 101, fo. 132.

M925 The City and the Election Bill, April, 1696.

1850 Journal 52, fos. 80, 90.

1851 Journal House of Commons, xi, 427, 556.

M926 Resolution of the Common Hall, 29 Sept., 1696.

1852 Luttrell, iv, 119, 120.

M927 The new currency, May-Aug., 1696.

1853 Stat. 7 and 8 Will. III, c. 1. By a subsequent Act (Stat. 7 and 8 Will. III, c. 19) encouragement was given for bringing plate into the Mint to be coined. The exportation of all silver except foreign silver was prohibited, and certificates to the effect that silver about to be exported was foreign silver and not plate or clipt money had to be obtained in the city from the aldermen before exportation was allowed. Three volumes of these "bullion certificates" are preserved in the Town Clerk's office.

1854 Luttrell, iv, 55. It is said that the goldsmiths of the city had collected all the available paper of the Bank for the express purpose of presenting it for cash at a time when they knew full well that the Bank was short of milled money, hoping thereby to injure the credit of the institution which was ruining their business.

M928 City loans, July-Nov., 1696.

1855 Luttrell, iv, 90.

1856 Id., iv, 91.

1857 Id., iv, 97.

M929 The Peace of Ryswick, 10 Sept., 1697.

1858 Id., iv, 216.

1859 Luttrell, iv, 278.

M930 Preparations to welcome the king on his return.

1860 Repertory 101, fos. 369-377.

1861 Repertory 101, fos. 381-384.

1862 Repertory 101, fos. 420-424; Repertory 102, fos. 4, 16; Journal 52, fo. 157.

1863 Repertory 102, fo. 18.

1864 Letters patent appointing commissioners for converting the palace into a hospital, and dated the 12th March, 1695, are preserved among the Records in the custody of the city Chamberlain.—See Report on Corporation Records, 16 Dec., 1869., Appendix iii, p. 50.

M931 The king met at Southwark by the mayor, aldermen, etc., 16 Nov., 1697.

1865 Journal 52, fo. 142.

1866 Id., fo. 157b.

1867 Repertory 102, fos. 4, 18-27; Luttrell, iv, 306.

M932 Congratulations offered by the city, 17 Nov., 1697.

1868 Luttrell; iv, 307.

M933 A day of public thanksgiving, 2 Dec.

1869 Journal 52, fos. 158, 158b; Repertory 102, fo. 49; Luttrell, iv, 313, 314.

M934 Parliamentary elections for the city, 1698-1701.

1870 Luttrell, iv, 720.

1871 Id., v, 10.

1872 Journal House of Commons, xiii, 351, 352; Luttrell, v, 20, 29.

M935 Death of James II, 5 Sept., 1701.

M936 The City's address of loyalty to William.

1873 Journal 53, fos. 123, 149; Luttrell, v, 94, 95, 96, 97, 99. The address is printed in Noorthouck, "Hist. of London" (p. 287, note).

1874 Luttrell, v, 100.

M937 Sir William Gore elected mayor, Sept., 1701.

1875 Evelyn (Diary, 11 June, 1696) writes of him as having been formerly a "mean goldsmith" and become rich by extortion. He had purchased an estate at Helmsley, co. York, once the property of the Duke of Buckingham, a transaction which drew forth the following lines from Pope (Imitation of Bk. ii, Satire ii, of Horace sub fine):—

"And Helmsley, once proud Buckingham's delight, Slides to a Scrivener or City Knight."

He had received a commission as alderman from James II in 1685, was discharged the following year, and in 1700, when he was sheriff, got himself elected alderman of Bridge Ward (Repertory 90, fo. 71; Id. 91, fo. 83b; Id. 104, fo. 345). The city Journals of the period are very imperfect, and there are no Common Hall books of the day, but Luttrell gives us the result of the mayoralty election of 1700, when Duncombe promised to lay out L40,000 for the good of the city, or build a Mansion House for future mayors, and set up a brass statue of King William upon the Conduit in Cheapside, if only he were elected (Diary, iv, 660, 692).

1876 Luttrell, v, 95.

M938 Election of William's last parliament, Nov.-Dec., 1701.

1877 Journal 50, fo. 359; Luttrell, v, 108.

1878 Luttrell, v, 110-111, 112-113, 114.

M939 The Princess Anne proclaimed queen 8 March, 1702.

1879 Journal 53, fo. 366; Repertory 106, fo. 200.

M940 The Common Council vote an address, 10 March.

M941 A picture of the queen for the Guildhall and a statue for the Royal Exchange.

1880 Journal 53, fo. 281b. The address is printed in Maitland's History (i, 503).

1881 Repertory 106, fo. 215.

1882 Repertory 106, fos. 226, 235, 243, 321; Journal 53, fo. 382. The portrait is said by Bryan ("Dict. of Painters") to have been hung in the Council Chamber. It is not there now, and does not appear to be either in the Guildhall or Mansion House.

M942 The coronation, 23 April, 1702.

1883 Journal 53, fo. 398; Repertory 106, fos. 253-255, 267-9.

M943 Parliament contunues notwithstanding demise of the crown, Stat. 7 & 8 Will. III, c. 15.

1884 Stat. 7 & 8 Will. III, c. 15.

M944 The Tories supplant the Whigs in the new parliament.

1885 "A new commission for the lieutenancy of London," writes Luttrell (11 July, 1702) "is come from her majestie, since which they have mett and turned out the six old collonells, viz., Sir Robert Clayton, Sir William Ashurst, Sir Thomas Stamp, Sir Thomas Lane, Sir Thomas Abney and Sir Owen Buckingham, and chose in their room Sir William Pritchard, Sir John Fleet, Sir Francis Child, Sir Samuel Dashwood, Sir Thomas Cook and Sir Charles Duncombe."—Diary, v, 193.

M945 The city members.

1886 Luttrell, v, 198.

1887 Id., v, 244.

M946 The queen entertained on lord mayor's day, 29 Oct., 1702.

1888 Luttrell, v, 220, 221. His election is not recorded in the City's Journal. The minutes of the court of Common Council at this period were either very imperfectly written up, or if written up have been either lost or suppressed. It is scarcely possible that Journal 53 can represent the whole of the municipal business transacted by the court between April, 1701, and February, 1704.

1889 Repertory 106, fos. 518, 523, 543, 548.

1890 Repertory 106, fo. 526; Luttrell, v, 226.

1891 Luttrell, v, 231.

M947 Public thanksgiving service at St. Paul's, 12 Nov., 1702.

1892 Journal 53, fo. 402.

1893 Upwards of L100,000 in bullion was carried to the Tower to be minted.—Luttrell, v, 238.

1894 Repertory 107, fos. 57-62.

1895 Luttrell, v, 235.

M948 The victory at Blenheim, 2 Aug. (o.s.), 1704.

1896 Stanhope ("Hist. of England," temp. Queen Anne, p. 142), and other writers give the date of the battle as the 13th August, adopting the new style, which was then in force on the continent, but not yet accepted by England.

1897 Journal 54, fo. 133.

1898 Id., fos. 50, 51. See Appendix.

1899 Journal 54, fo. 134.

1900 Repertory 108, fo. 530.

1901 Repertory 108, fos. 533, 544, 547.

M949 The Duke of Marlborough at Goldsmiths' Hall, 6 Jan., 1705.

1902 Rep. 109, fos. 88, 92, 95.

1903 Luttrell, v, 506.

1904 Journal 54, fo. 119.

M950 The City's finances, 1702-4.

1905 Journal 52, fo. 228; Journal 53, fos. 382-384, 388-390; Journal 54, fos. 42-46, 485-493; Journal 55, fos. 39-41.

1906 Journal 53, fos. 263, 268, 285, 303.

1907 Id., fos. 545, 548-549.

1908 Journal 53, fos. 716-726.

1909 Journal 54, fos. 53-56.

1910 Journal 53, fos. 714-716.

1911 Journal 53, fos. 714, 730, 739, 744-746. The Act was entitled "An Act to prevent the further declining state of the city of London." (Printed.)

M951 Another thanksgiving service at St. Paul's, 23 Aug., 1705.

1912 Journal 54, fo. 521; Repertory 109, fo. 412.

M952 Meeting of the new parliament, 25 Oct., 1705.

1913 Their names were Clayton, Ashurst, Heathcote and a new candidate in the person of Samuel Shepheard, the Tories who were put up in opposition being Sir John Fleet, Sir John Parsons, Sir William Withers and Sir Richard Hoare (Luttrell, v, 541-542, 543). Upon the death of Sir Robert Clayton in 1707 his seat was won by a Tory, viz., Sir William Withers, who was lord mayor at the time (Luttrell, vi, 236, 237). Withers had previously sat in the short parliament of 1701 (Feb.-Nov.) in the Whig interest (Luttrell, iv, 721).

1914 Stat. 6 Anne, c. vii, secs. 25, 26.

M953 The victory at Ramillies, 12 May (o.s), 1706.

1915 Stanhope ("Hist, of England," temp. Queen Anne, p. 216) gives the date as Sunday the 23rd May—the day of the month according to the new style. But he is wrong in stating that day to have been Sunday. The 12th May did fall on Sunday.

1916 Journal 54, fos. 462-463, 475.

1917 Repertory 110, fo. 157.

1918 Id., fo. 150b.

1919 Repertory 111, fos. 21, 28, 35; Luttrell, vi, 119. They have long since disappeared.

M954 L250,000 for Prince Eugene, March, 1706.

1920 Luttrell, v, 623.

1921 Id., vi, 24.

M955 Day of public thanksgiving, 31 Dec., 1706.

1922 Journal 57, fo. 537; Luttrell, vi, 122, 123.

M956 Passage of gunpowder through the city.

1923 Journal 54, fos. 499-501.

1924 Journal House of Commons, xv, 358, 366, 368, 384, 387, 389, 390.

1925 Journal 54, fos. 614, 623-624, 647; Journal House of Commons, xv, 567.

1926 Journal 54, fo. 605.

M957 The Union with Scotland, 1607.

1927 Journal House of Commons, xv, 392; Journal 54, fos. 616, 617, 621.

1928 Journal 54, fo. 603.

M958 France and the Pretender, March, 1708.

1929 Journal 54, fo. 652.

M959 Search for Papists and Jacobites in the city, 1708.

1930 Journal House of Commons, xv, 600, 601, 602, 608.

1931 Repertory 112, fo. 119.

1932 Journal 54, fo. 680.

M960 City parliamentary elections, 1708.

1933 Id., fos. 655, 656.

1934 .Supra, p. 622, note.

1935 Luttrell, vi, 302, 303, 304.

M961 The campaign of 1708.

1936 This is the date given by Burnet (v, 373), who follows the old style. Stanhope ("Hist. of England," temp. Queen Anne, p. 350), who, as we have already said, adopts the new style, gives the date of the battle as the 11th July.

1937 Journal 54, fo. 701.

1938 Thursday, the 16th February, 1709, was ordered by royal proclamation (30 Dec., 1708) to be observed as a day of public thanksgiving for these successes throughout the kingdom.—Journal 55, fo. 17.

M962 The death of Prince George of Denmark, 28 Oct., 1708.

1939 Luttrell, vi, 366.

1940 Repertory 112, fo. 485.

1941 Journal 55, fo. 11b.

1942 Luttrell, vi, 367.

M963 The campaign of 1709.

1943 Luttrell, vi, 484. According to new style the 11th September.—Stanhope, op. cit., p. 392.

1944 The address was voted by the Common Council on the 6th September.—Journal 55, fo. 121.

1945 Journal 55, fo. 137b; Burnet, v, 426.

M964 Scarcity of corn and bread, 1709.

1946 Stat. 7 Anne, c. 5. Repealed in part by Stat. 10 Anne, c. 5.

1947 Repertory 113, fos. 416-420.

1948 Journal House of Commons, xvi, 214, 215, 221, 224, 232, 236.

1949 Journal House of Commons, xvi, 221, 294, 389, 393; Stat. 8 Anne, c. 18.

M965 Dr. Sacheverell's sermon, 5 Nov., 1709.

M966 The Court of Aldermen decline to print it, 8 Nov., 1709.

1950 Repertory 113, fo. 410.

1951 Repertory 114, fo. 13.

1952 A copy of the sermon "printed for Henry Clements at the Half Moon in St. Paul's Churchyard, 1709," is preserved in the Guildhall Library (Tracts 451).

M967 The sermon brought to the notice of parliament, 13 Dec., 1709.

M968 Sacheverell's impeachment ordered, 14 Dec., 1709.

1953 Journal House of Commons, xvi, 241; Luttrell, vi, 523.

1954 Journal House of Commons, xvi, 245, 246, 252-256.

1955 Journal House of Lords, xix, 37.

M969 His trial in Westminster Hall, 27 Feb., 1710.

1956 Journal House of Commons, xvi, 293; Journal House of Lords, xix, 58, 60.

1957 Luttrell, vi, 551; Burnet, v, 444, 445.

1958 Journal House of Lords, xix, 115, 118.

1959 Luttrell, vi, 562; Noorthouck, p. 297.

1960 Repertory 114, fos. 153-155, 182.

1961 Journal House of Commons, xvi, 385.

1962 Burnet, v, 450, 451.

1963 Journal 55, fos. 169b-170b.

1964 Luttrell, vi, 569.

M970 The fall of the Whigs, 1710.

1965 Journal House of Commons, xvi, 316.

1966 Luttrell, vi, 594; Stanhope, op. cit., pp. 426, 427.

M971 Parliamentary elections, 1710.

M972 The city members.

1967 Luttrell, vi, 634.

1968 "Hist. of His Own Time," vi, 16.

1969 Luttrell, vi, 641, 654.

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