Chapter 32

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On the day that William died the Lords Spiritual and Temporal met together and, "with the assistance" of the Privy Council, a number of other "principall gentlemen of quality" and the lord mayor, aldermen and citizens of London, proceeded to draw up a document proclaiming the Princess Anne successor to the crown. The day happened to be Sunday; nevertheless on that same afternoon public proclamation of the queen’s accession was made at Temple Bar and the Royal Exchange in the presence of the mayor and Court of Aldermen, whilst the sheriffs were despatched to learn when her majesty would be pleased to receive the aldermen.(1879)

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Two days later (10 March) the Common Council voted an address condoling with the queen on the death of the late king and congratulating her upon her accession.(1880) The Court of Aldermen resolved to put themselves into "close" mourning, each alderman providing himself with a mourning gown at his own expense, whilst the Chamberlain was instructed to provide similar gowns for the chief officers of the Corporation at the City’s expense, as had formerly been done on the demise of Charles II.(1881) They further resolved, with her majesty’s permission, to cause her portrait to be painted and to be set up in the Guildhall and a statue of her to be set up at the Royal Exchange. It was found on enquiry that the statues of kings and queens already in the Royal Exchange had been set up at the expense of the companies, except those of William and Mary, which (as we have seen) were erected by order of the Common Council. On the other hand, the pictures of Charles II, James II and of William and Mary had all been paid for by the Chamber. Artists were invited to send in sketches or designs for her majesty’s picture; and this having been done, the work was entrusted to Closterman.(1882)

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At the coronation, which took place on the 23rd April, the mayor, aldermen and twelve representatives of the principal livery companies were present, care having been taken by the City Remembrancer that their proper places were assigned them both in the Abbey and at the subsequent banquet in Westminster Hall. The civic dignitaries started from the city as early as seven o’clock in the morning in order to be at Westminster Hall by eight a.m. The mayor was provided at the City’s expense with the customary gown of crimson velvet for the occasion, the sword-bearer being only a little less resplendent in a gown of damask.(1883)

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Before the Revolution it had been the custom for parliament to cease to exist immediately on the demise of the crown. It was held that inasmuch as the king was the head of the parliament, and as the members of a living body could not continue to exist without a head, so a parliament could not continue without a king, but must with the death of the king, _ipso facto_, itself expire. The inconveniences arising from this had at length become so apparent that an Act had recently been passed permitting a parliament in existence at the demise of the crown to be continued for a period of six months after such demise.(1884) By virtue of this Act the parliament, which had met for the first time on the 30th December, 1701, was allowed to sit, notwithstanding the king’s death, until dissolved in July, 1702.

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The "good" Queen Anne, warmly attached as she was to the Church of England, was naturally inclined towards the Tories in preference to the Whigs, and lost no time in dismissing Somers, Halifax and other Whig ministers of the late king and filling their places with Tories. Her action in this respect influenced the coming elections more especially in the city of London, where a new commission of lieutenancy appointed by the queen had already turned out six colonels of Whiggish proclivities and had put in their place others of a different political character.(1885)

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Only one of the old Whig members managed to retain his seat, viz., Gilbert Heathcote, who had recently been elected alderman of Walbrook ward in the place of Sir John Moore, deceased, and who may have inherited some of the Tory principles of his predecessor together with the aldermanic gown. There is nothing like office for chastening a man’s political opinions. However this may have been, his three colleagues elected to serve with him in the coming parliament were also aldermen of the city and staunch Tories. These were Sir William Pritchard, Sir John Fleet and Sir Francis Child. A scrutiny had been demanded by Clayton, Ashurst and Abney, the defeated candidates, but it failed to disturb the result of the poll.(1886) Clayton was successful in finding a seat for Bletchingley, co. Surrey.(1887)

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When Michaelmas-day came round and Sir Samuel Dashwood—a tried Tory who had sat for the city in the only parliament convened under James II, as well as in the first parliament under William and Mary—was elected to the mayoralty chair, the choice of the citizens was highly commended by the lord keeper,(1888) and the queen accepted an invitation to dinner on lord mayor’s day. It was proposed to invite both Houses of Parliament to the city on that occasion, but it was found that the accommodation at the Guildhall was insufficient for the purpose.(1889) The cost of the entertainment to her majesty was not thrown on the Chamber, but was discharged by the aldermen, each of them agreeing to subscribe the sum of £25 for the purpose. The entertainment, however, was given on so lavish a scale that these contributions had to be doubled, in addition to which the outgoing as well as the incoming mayor contributed £300 respectively and each of the sheriffs £150. The whole cost of the entertainment amounted to £2,000.(1890) The queen acknowledged the hospitality thus offered by conferring the honour of knighthood upon Francis Dashwood, brother of the lord mayor, Richard Hoare, the goldsmith of Fleet Street, Gilbert Heathcote, the city member, and upon "Mr. Eaton," the linendraper, of Cheapside, from whose house she had witnessed the pageant.(1891)

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Scarce a fortnight elapsed before the queen again visited the city (12 Nov.), the occasion being a public thanksgiving service in St. Paul’s for the successes of Marlborough, Ormond and Rooke. In July Marlborough had opened the campaign against France and Spain, war having been declared against those countries on the 4th May,(1892) and although he had been unable to bring the enemy to a general engagement he had succeeded in reducing several important towns and in cutting off the communications of the French with the Lower Rhine. At sea the English and Dutch combined fleets under the command of Sir George Rooke, with a large number of troops on board under the command of the Duke of Ormond, had succeeded in capturing a rich booty in Vigo Bay.(1893) Both Houses of Parliament attended the service. The order of the procession and the distribution of seats within the cathedral are given in detail in a report laid before the Court of Aldermen (15 Dec.).(1894) The queen, who was attired in purple, and wore her collar and George, was met at Temple Bar by the mayor, aldermen and sheriffs on horseback. The city sword, having been presented to her majesty and restored to the mayor, was carried by him next before her majesty’s coach to the cathedral. The streets from St. James’ to Temple Bar were lined by the Westminster militia, and from Temple Bar to Ludgate by two regiments of the city trained bands. The balconies and windows were hung with carpets and tapestry. On arriving at St. Paul’s her majesty was met at the door by the Peers and escorted to the choir of the cathedral by the Duke of Somerset and the lord chamberlain, the sword of state being borne before her by the Duke of Ormond. The spectacle which presented itself inside St. Paul’s on this occasion has scarcely ever been equalled. Opposite the altar, on a throne of state, sat the queen. The Peers were accommodated with seats in the body of the choir, whilst the Commons sat in the stalls and upper galleries on either side. In the two lower galleries next the throne sat the foreign ministers and ladies "of quality." There were two other galleries near the altar, one on the north side and the other on the south side of the church. The latter was occupied by the mayor, aldermen and sheriffs, whilst the former was occupied (as usual) by their ladies. The sermon was preached by the Bishop of Exeter. The night was given up to bonfires and illuminations.(1895)

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Two years later the city’s minster—now rapidly approaching completion—was again the scene of a similar gathering, the occasion being a thanksgiving service for a signal victory gained by Marlborough over the French and Bavarian forces at Blenheim, near Hochstadt in Germany (2 Aug., o.s.).(1896) The 7th September was set apart as a day of public thanksgiving.(1897) The City in the meanwhile voted (30 Aug.) an address to her majesty(1898) congratulating her on the success that had attended her arms and complimenting her on her judgment in selecting Marlborough for the command, whose courage and conduct had "settled the tottering empire, relieved Savoy, chastised the Elector of Bavaria, and curbed the ambition of the French king." They prayed that her majesty might long live a terror to her enemies, a defence to her injured neighbours and a delight to her subjects. The next day (31 Aug.) the mayor issued his precept to the several livery companies to prepare their rails, stands, banners and other usual "ornaments of triumph" with the view of taking up such position in the street as should be assigned to them.(1899) Several of the companies, viz., the Girdlers, the Scriveners and the Glovers, refused to obey the precept, and were thereupon summoned before the Court of Aldermen to answer for their conduct, whilst others like the Dyers, the Cooks and the Poulterers were excused.(1900) A little difficulty arose touching the seats assigned by the lord chamberlain in St. Paul’s to the civic dignitaries, who claimed the right to occupy the seats and places where they usually sat, the more so on this occasion because, parliament not being then in session, the members of neither House were to be in attendance. How matters were eventually arranged does not appear, but the Court of Aldermen up to the last moment were emphatic in their resolution that the lord mayor should insist on keeping his place in the cathedral, and a week later (14 Sept.) appointed a committee to search for precedents as to the place occupied by the mayor and aldermen in processions and their seats in St. Paul’s on occasions of any king or queen coming there to hear a sermon.(1901) In other respects everything passed off well.

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On the morning of the 14th December Marlborough arrived in London, bringing in his train Marshal Tallard and other general officers whom he had made captive at Blenheim. On the 20th an invitation was sent for his grace to dine with the Court of Aldermen and the sheriffs at Goldsmiths’ Hall, the residence of Sir Owen Buckingham, the lord mayor, on any day he might name. The invitation having been graciously accepted for the 6th January, the duke was further requested to bring with him what company he pleased, for his grace would find none others there besides the lord mayor, aldermen and sheriffs to entertain him. Each alderman and sheriff was called upon to subscribe the sum of £25 towards defraying the cost of the entertainment.(1902)

On the day appointed the duke was conveyed to the city in one of her majesty’s own coaches, accompanied by the Duke of Somerset, the foreign ministers and a large number of the nobility and general officers of the army. At Temple Bar he was met by the city marshal, by whom he was conducted to Goldsmiths’ Hall. There a "noble treat" was set out for the guests, "the queen’s musick playing all the while, and everything performed in great splendor."(1903) The Common Council acknowledged the great public spirit thus displayed by the Court of Aldermen and the sheriffs by passing an unanimous vote of thanks to them.(1904)

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In the meantime, whilst Marlborough had been so successfully carrying on the work which the late king had set himself to do, the city of London had been busy setting its house in order. The poor were with them in greater numbers than ever. The statute (13 and 14 Chas. II, c. 12) passed in 1662 for the better relief of the poor of the kingdom, authorising the erection of workhouses, necessitated the expenditure of a great deal of money, and a sum amounting to nearly £5,000 had to be periodically raised for the purpose by assessment of the several parishes of the city.(1905) Besides this there was a yearly sum of £8,000 due by the City to the orphans and its other creditors, a sum which exceeded the City’s yearly revenue. The consequence was that the City had become greatly in debt. To remedy this state of affairs various methods were resorted to. An attempt was made at the commencement of the present reign to get the queen’s sanction for compelling every governor, deputy governor, or committeeman of both the East India companies to take up the freedom of the City. The question was referred to the attorney-general, whose opinion on the matter was duly reported to the Common Council.(1906)

On the 1st July, 1703, another committee was appointed to examine the state of the Chamber, and to consider of ways and means for its supply and for the support of the government of the city. On the 18th August this committee recommended to the Common Council that an exact survey of all the City’s estate should be made in each ward by the alderman and his deputy, and that such surveys should be sent to the town clerk so that they might be entered in a book. The court approved of the recommendation, and ordered that it should be carried out "with all expedition imaginable."(1907) The City’s markets,(1908) the City’s beams(1909) and everything else that could be let on lease were let at improved rentals, and everything that could be sold was sold. On the 4th November (1703) the lord mayor (Sir John Parsons) informed the Common Council that towards the payment of the City’s debts his lordship and the two sheriffs had agreed to lay before the court certain papers showing (1) what the several places under the Corporation would sell for, (2) what the lord mayor himself and the sheriffs were willing to take for their share of each place, and (3) what part of the purchase-money might be devoted to the liquidation of the City’s debts.(1910)

The schedule is an interesting one as showing the value attached to various offices under the City. Thus a water-bailiff’s place would sell for £2,200, a sword-bearer’s for £2,500, and that of a clerk of the Chamber for as much as £2,600 (the highest of all), whilst a City solicitor could purchase his place for £1,500, and a City remembrancer could do the same for £1,200. The scheme proposed by the mayor and sheriffs on this occasion affected no less than one hundred and sixty-three places of employment, and was simplicity itself, being nothing more than that they themselves and their successors should forego one-third of the value of any place that became vacant during their year of office, and that this third should be devoted to payment of the City’s liabilities. The total value of these purchaseable places amounted to £107,860, one-third of which, viz., £35,953 6_s._ 8_d._, would, if this proposal were carried out (and _if every place fell vacant within the year_), be available for the discharge of the City’s debts. In a second schedule were set out certain other places filled chiefly by artificers, who, by their extravagant charges, had contributed (it was said) in no small degree to the City’s indebtedness. These were to be excluded from the scheme, much to their disappointment. When any one of them died, surrendered his place or was dismissed from it for just cause, his place was not to be filled up, and the payment of 10_s._ a week, more or less, which such artificer had been in the habit of receiving from the City, "work or not work," was to cease.

The proposals thus laid before the Common Council met with the approval of the court, and the committee was instructed to embody them in a Bill. A Bill was accordingly drawn up and read the first time on the 4th February, 1704. It passed on the 24th,(1911) and the thanks of the Common Council were returned to the mayor and sheriffs for their generous offers.

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In March, 1705, Marlborough sailed for Holland to resume the campaign. By July he had succeeded in forcing the French lines which stretched across the country from Namur to Antwerp. For this success another thanksgiving service was held at St. Paul’s, and attended by the queen in person (23 Aug.).(1912) Had the general been allowed a free hand by his Dutch allies a decisive battle might have been fought. The Dutch officers refused, however, to co-operate in an attack, and Marlborough had to give way with the best grace he could.

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During Marlborough’s absence the parliament of 1702, which would soon have terminated by efflux of time under the provisions of the Triennial Act, had been dissolved (5 April) and a new one summoned. Once more the political pendulum swung back and a Whig parliament was returned. The Tories rather injured than aided their cause by raising the cry that the Church was in danger, whilst the Whig party was daily increasing in favour not only with the queen, who highly resented such a cry, but also with Marlborough and Godolphin. In the city both parties put up four candidates, but when the poll was declared it was found that all four Whigs had been returned by an overwhelming majority.(1913) One of the results of an understanding arrived at between Marlborough and the Tory leaders with the Whig Junto was a modification of an article in the Act of Settlement, which, after the accession of the House of Hanover, would have otherwise debarred ministers and other placemen from the House of Commons. A compromise was effected whereby only those who enjoyed a pension or office created after the 25th October, 1705, were to be disqualified from sitting in the House, whilst all other offices were declared compatible with a seat if the holder presented himself to his constituents for re-election at the time of his appointment.(1914) This arrangement is still in force, although the necessity of it has long since disappeared.

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After a brief stay in England, where he had arrived at the opening of the new year (1706), Marlborough again crossed over to Holland before the spring. A few weeks only elapsed before he gained fresh laurels by another signal defeat of the French at the little village of Ramillies (12 May, o.s.).(1915) On the 24th May the Common Council voted an address to the queen congratulating her majesty on the victory.(1916) The 27th June was set apart as a day of public thanksgiving, for which the City made the usual preparations.(1917) But seeing that these gala days followed so closely on one another the Court of Aldermen resolved that the new crimson velvet gown with which the lord mayor was furnished on these occasions at the City’s expense should no longer be appropriated by him, but should be carefully laid up by the hall keeper for future use.(1918) At the humble request of the lord mayor (Sir Thomas Rawlinson) her majesty graciously consented to bestow the trophies and colours recently taken in Flanders upon the City to the intent that they might be hung up in the Guildhall. It was not, however, until the 19th December, when the Duke of Marlborough was sumptuously entertained at Vintners’ Hall, that twenty-six standards and sixty-three colours, taken at Ramillies, were brought into the city in great state, there to be displayed on the walls of the Guildhall.(1919)

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These successes were not achieved without great expenditure of blood and money. At the close of the previous year (1705) the lord mayor had received an order under the royal sign manual requiring him and the Court of Aldermen to forthwith impress 1,000 men—such as had no visible means of subsistence—for service by land or sea,(1920) whilst in the following March (1706) it was found necessary to open a subscription at Mercers’ Chapel for furnishing Prince Eugene with £250,000 to assist him in carrying on the campaign in Italy. Notwithstanding the depressed state of the Corporation finances, the city abounded in wealth, and by the close of the first day no less than £160,000 of the whole loan had been underwritten, Sir Gilbert Heathcote, Sir William Scawen, Sir James Bateman and Sir Henry Furnese making themselves each responsible for the sum of £4,000.(1921) With the pecuniary assistance thus afforded him, and with the reinforcements which Marlborough despatched to him from Holland, the prince was enabled to raise the siege of Turin (7 Sept., 1706).

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It was not long before the crimson velvet gown was again brought into requisition. So great success had attended the allied armies in 1706 that the queen ordered another day of public thanksgiving to be kept on the last day of the year, when she paid another solemn visit to St. Paul’s, accompanied by both Houses of Parliament. Strange to say the records of the Court of Aldermen are absolutely silent as to the preparations made for the occasion, but from another source we know them to have been on the same scale as formerly, and we may depend upon it that the crimson velvet gown was there.(1922)

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The city was at this time in great danger from the passage of large quantities of gunpowder through the streets on its way to the Tower. One can realise the immense risk which the merchant and trader ran in pursuing his regular vocation when one reads that on the 10th July (1706) a cart with iron-bound wheels and laden with twenty-five barrels of gunpowder had been overturned on Fish Street Hill and the gunpowder scattered. Nor was this the only accident that had occurred; the wonder is that the entire city had not been blown up long since, seeing that gunpowder was a commodity dealt in by grocers! The Common Council took the matter up and made a representation to the queen.(1923) Next year a Bill was introduced into the House of Commons by Sir Gilbert Heathcote and Samuel Shepheard, two of the city members, for preventing the dangers arising from bringing or laying up quantities of gunpowder within the city and liberties, but before the Lords and Commons could come to an agreement parliament was prorogued (24 April, 1707).(1924) The municipal authorities were not content to let matters rest here, but prepared a petition to parliament for leave to bring in another Bill. The petition was ordered to lie on the table (24 Feb., 1708),(1925) and in the meantime the citizens had to be satisfied with an undertaking already given by powder-makers not to carry any gunpowder to any wharf or stairs within half a mile of London Bridge.(1926)

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The Articles of Union between England and Scotland having, after prolonged discussion, been ratified by both the English and Scottish parliaments and received the formal assent of the Crown, a day of public thanksgiving (1 May, 1707) was ordered to be observed for the happy conclusion of the treaty between the two kingdoms. A proclamation had previously been issued (29 April) constituting the existing Houses of Lords and Commons the first parliament of Great Britain for and on the part of England, whilst sixteen peers and forty-five commoners were to be elected to represent Scotland in the same parliament. The first meeting was to take place at Westminster on the 23rd October.(1927) Meanwhile addresses of congratulation to the queen arrived from various parts of the kingdom; but in consequence of the Article of Union declaring the Presbyterian form to be the true Protestant religion, no such address came from the University of Oxford. It was otherwise with the city of London, where Presbyterianism had always been in favour. On the 9th May the Common Council voted an address to her majesty congratulating her upon the happy union of the two kingdoms, a blessing which Heaven (they declared) had reserved for her to accomplish, who was the true and sincere lover of piety, unity and concord.(1928)

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The Londoners entertained sincere affection for Queen Anne, and lost no opportunity of showing their loyalty. Such an opportunity presented itself in the spring of the following year (1708), when Scotland was threatened by a French invasion in favour of the Pretender. The citizens hastened to assure her that the French preparations inspired them—her majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects—with no terror. The repeated tenders of their lives and fortunes were (she was asked to believe) not empty words, but they would be ready when occasion offered to demonstrate to the world their unfeigned loyalty in support of her majesty and the maintenance of the Protestant succession against the Pretender and all other enemies at home and abroad.(1929)

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Not satisfied with mere assurances of support, parliament proceeded to pass a Bill "for the better security of her majesty’s person," by virtue of which the oath of abjuration was to be administered to all suspected persons, and those who refused it were to be at once treated as convict recusants. The Habeas Corpus Act was suspended, and the House of Commons engaged to make good any extra expense her majesty might be put to by reason of this threatened invasion.(1930) On Tuesday, the 30th March, a letter from the Privy Council was read before the Court of Aldermen in which the magistrates of the city were commanded to meet as soon as possible for the purpose of tendering the oath, according to the provisions of the recent Act. The court thereupon gave orders for precepts to be immediately issued to the deputies and common councilmen of the several wards requiring them to return a list in writing under their hands to the town clerk of all disaffected or dangerous persons found in their wards. The returns were to be made before the end of the week.(1931) This could have been no easy matter considering the number of particulars that were to be set out in the return according to the terms of the precept. The deputy and common councilmen of each ward were called upon to distinguish (1) all Papists or reputed Papists, (2) all such as preached in or frequented Jacobite meetings, (3) all non-jurors, _i.e._, such as had refused to take the oaths appointed to be taken in place of the oaths of supremacy and allegiance, (4) all such as were found guilty of casting aspersions upon her majesty and the government, (5) all persons suspected of holding correspondence with her majesty’s enemies abroad, and lastly (6) all spreaders of false and seditious reports. The christian names and surnames of each and all of these, together with their place of abode, were to be returned in less than a week in order that they might be summoned and have the oath tendered to them.(1932)

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On the 1st April parliament was prorogued; a fortnight later it was dissolved and writs for a new parliament were sent out on the 26th, returnable on the following 8th July.(1933) Although the Whigs again obtained a majority in the country, and although they succeeded before the end of the year in ousting all Tories from the ministry, they were losing ground in the city of London. In November last Withers, the lord mayor, had obtained Clayton’s seat (on the latter’s decease) in the Tory interest as already mentioned.(1934) He was again returned after a close contest with Sir Samuel Stanier, and with him another Tory in the person of John Ward, who subsequently became an alderman and sat in the first parliament of George I. The other two seats were retained by the Whigs, Ashurst and Heathcote.(1935)

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Before the elections were over news arrived of another victory gained by Marlborough. The French had been utterly defeated at Oudenarde (30 June, o.s.).(1936) The fact that the Common Council allowed some weeks to slip by before voting a congratulatory address to the queen(1937) may possibly be accounted for by the growing strength of the Tory party in the city, with whom the war was never in favour. The victory was followed before the close of the year by the capture of Lille, one of the strongest fortresses in Flanders, and the recovery of Bruges and Ghent, which had fallen into the hands of the French general, Vendôme.(1938)

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The general joy which succeeded the victory of Oudenarde was damped by the somewhat sudden death of Prince George of Denmark, the queen’s husband. For some time past the prince had been suffering from asthma, but it was not until Monday, the 25th October, that graver symptoms appeared.(1939) On that day he was attacked with dropsy and hæmorrhage, and the Court of Aldermen thought so seriously of the attack that three days later (28 Oct.) they instructed the City Remembrancer to repair daily to Kensington to enquire after the prince’s health.(1940) That same afternoon, however, the prince died, and the City’s address, presented to the queen a month later, whilst congratulating her on her victories abroad, condoled with her majesty on the loss she had sustained at home.(1941) The sad event happening so close upon lord mayor’s day, when Sir Charles Duncombe was to be sworn into office, the customary pageant on such occasions was foregone, the mayor-elect contenting himself with driving to Westminster Hall attended only by some of his brother aldermen.(1942)

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After a futile attempt to arrange terms for a cessation of hostilities both parties again took the field. Tournay having been reduced by the allies under Marlborough and Eugene, they next proceeded to threaten Mons. In order to protect this stronghold Villars, the French marshal, entrenched himself at Malplaquet. From this post, however, the allies succeeded in driving him after a "very bloody battle," in which the victors lost more men than the defeated (31 Aug., o.s.).(1943) The citizens of London, in an address to the queen, expressed their delight at the prospect of the French king being soon compelled to accept terms.(1944) Tuesday, the 22nd November, was ordered to be observed as a day of public thanksgiving for the victory of "Blaregnies," by which name the battle of Malplaquet was sometimes known.(1945)

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Before another campaign was opened the ascendancy of the Whigs had passed away. They had rendered themselves the more obnoxious to the citizens by the passing of an Act for the naturalization of foreign Protestants,(1946) the result of which had been to overcrowd the city with needy foreigners at a time when there was a great scarcity of provisions. A cry was raised that the price of corn and bread was being enhanced by the action of forestallers, and the lord mayor was instructed by letter from Sunderland (3 Oct., 1709) to put the law in force against all engrossers, forestallers and regraters of corn. The mayor in reply assured the secretary of state that there were no such engrossers in the city, but that the present dearness was caused by the exportation of large quantities of corn and grain to foreign countries. The city authorities had, moreover, been informed that wheat was selling in the north of England at 40_s._ a quarter and less. They therefore suggested that government should furnish a sufficient convoy for the purpose of bringing it to London.(1947) The representation as to the evils arising from exportation of corn had the desired effect, for a Bill was shortly afterwards passed limiting such importation,(1948) whilst another Bill was passed for regulating the assize of bread.(1949)

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The bitter feeling against the Whigs engendered by their overbearing and dictatorial conduct whenever in power was increased by a sermon preached at St. Paul’s on the 5th November before the lord mayor and aldermen by Dr. Sacheverell, a high church Tory. Taking for his text the words of the Apostle, "In perils among false brethren" (2 Cor., xi, 26), the preacher advocated in its entirety the doctrine of non-resistance, condemned every sort of toleration, and attacked with much bitterness the Dissenters. Sir Samuel Garrard, who had but recently entered on his duties as lord mayor (having been elected in place of Sir Jeffery Jeffreys, who had been excused from office on the ground of ill-health),(1950) was himself also a high Tory, and as such was greatly pleased with the sentiments put forth by Sacheverell. He congratulated the preacher on his sermon, and is said to have expressed a hope that it would be printed. If so, it would appear to betoken some doubt in his mind as to his brother aldermen consenting to print such a polemical discourse. As a rule all sermons preached on state occasions before the mayor and aldermen were ordered by the court to be printed as a matter of course, the sum of forty shillings being voted towards the expense. Two sermons recently preached before them, one at St. Paul’s and the other in the church of St. Lawrence Jewry, were so ordered (8 Nov.) to be printed by the court; but when on the same day the question was put to them that Dr. Sacheverell should be desired to print his sermon it was negatived.(1951) Sacheverell took no notice of this rebuff, but printed the sermon on his own responsibility and at his own expense, with a prefatory dedication to the mayor.(1952) The sermon was immensely popular with the high church party, and a large number of copies were circulated, much to the disgust of the Whigs.

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At length the ministry resolved to take proceedings against the author. On the 13th December a complaint was made to the House of Commons of this sermon, as well as of another sermon of similar character which had been preached by Sacheverell before the judges at the last summer assizes at Derby. After some debate the House resolved that both these sermons were "malicious, scandalous and seditious libels highly reflecting upon her majesty and her government, the late happy revolution, and the Protestant succession as by law established," and ordered that Dr. Henry Sacheverell and Henry Clements, his publisher, should attend at the Bar of the House the next day.

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Accordingly the next day (14 Dec.) the doctor and the bookseller appeared. Sacheverell owned that he was the author of the two discourses, and gave an account of what had taken place between himself and the lord mayor; but whilst expressing his regret at having incurred the displeasure of the House, he showed no contrition for the doctrines he had promulgated. The lord mayor, who was present in the House in his capacity as member for Agmondesham, was thereupon asked if he had given any orders for causing the sermon preached at St. Paul’s to be printed, but he denied having done so.(1953) The doctor being called upon to retire, the House resolved to impeach him of high crimes and misdemeanours and in the meantime committed him to the custody of the sergeant-at-arms. Application was made a few days later for bail to be allowed, but this the House refused.(1954) It was, however, subsequently granted by the Lords, but at a very high amount, viz., Sacheverell himself in £6,000 and two sureties in £3,000 respectively. One of these sureties was no other than the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, of which Sacheverell was a member.(1955)

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It was originally intended that the trial should take place at the Bar of the House of Lords, but as the Commons insisted upon being present as a committee of the whole House, the Lords appointed Westminster Hall to be the place of trial and instructed Sir Christopher Wren to make the necessary preparations as speedily as possible.(1956) The trial commenced on the 27th February and continued for three weeks. Day after day as Sacheverell passed from his lodgings in the Temple to Westminster Hall and home again his coach was besieged by crowds striving to kiss his hand and shouting "Sacheverell and the Church for ever!" So again when the queen, impelled by curiosity, attended the trial, as she did on more than one occasion, shouts were raised as she passed on her way of "God bless your majesty and the Church! we hope your majesty is for Dr. Sacheverell!" Had the mob confined itself to this kind of demonstration little harm had been done. Unfortunately it allowed itself to be carried away by excitement and took to attacking meeting-houses and damaging the property of Dissenters.(1957) The arguments on both sides having at last been concluded, the Lords, by a narrow majority, pronounced Sacheverell guilty. They did not venture, however, to proceed against him with any greater severity than to order his sermons to be burnt at the Exchange by the common hangman, in the presence of the lord mayor and sheriffs, and to prohibit him from preaching for the next three years.(1958) Such a sentence was virtually a victory for the Tories and a defeat of the Whigs. Lord mayor Garrard contrived to escape the humiliation of presiding over the burning of a sermon of which he in his heart approved, and this part of the sentence was carried out in his absence under the supervision of the sheriffs.(1959) The verdict was welcomed in the city with illuminations and bonfires, accompanied with some little tumult and disorder. The queen complained to the Court of Aldermen by letter, and thereupon the court appointed a committee to investigate the recent riots (27 March, 1710). The result was that the ringleaders were arrested and bound over to the sessions.(1960) The streets were flooded with republican pamphlets which the House ordered to be burnt by the common hangman.(1961) Addresses were sent in from all parts of the country, some in favour of the existing parliament, but the majority advocated a speedy dissolution.(1962) The Common Council voted an address (but only by a small majority) in which her majesty was assured of the City’s hatred of all "anti-monarchical principles," its continued loyalty to her person and government, its zeal for the Church of England, its tender regard for liberty of conscience and its resolution to maintain the Protestant succession. The address concluded by saying that in obedience to her majesty’s commands the civic authorities would do their utmost care to prevent and suppress riotous assemblies.(1963) The address, together with one from the lieutenancy of London, was presented to the queen on the 13th April.(1964)

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The queen seized the opportunity afforded her by this outburst of Tory enthusiasm to get rid of the Whig ministry. For some time past she had been anxious to free herself from Marlborough and the domineering influence of his wife. During the trial of Sacheverell Marlborough had been on the continent. In view of the approaching struggle between Whigs and Tories, both parties preferred to be relieved of his presence. To this end Sir Gilbert Heathcote, one of the Whig members for the city, had moved an address to her majesty (16 Feb.) praying she would order the duke to Holland, "where his presence will be equally necessary to assist at the negotiations of peace and to hasten the preparations for an early campaign."(1965) The address, having received the unanimous assent of both Houses, was graciously received by the queen, and Marlborough had set out. In his absence the queen proceeded cautiously to effect her object. One by one the Whigs were removed from office and their places filled up by Tories. Sunderland was the first to go, the seals being transferred to Lord Dartmouth. It was feared in commercial circles that his dismissal betokened a general change of ministry and that a panic would follow. The queen, however, assured Sir Gilbert Heathcote, at that time governor of the Bank of England, that she had no immediate intention of making further changes, but that if any were made she would take care that they should not be prejudicial to the bank or to the common cause.(1966) Notwithstanding the assurances thus given, less than two months elapsed before Godolphin was made to follow Sunderland. After this many of the Whig ministers resigned, whilst others waited to be turned out.

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A few weeks after the dismissal of Godolphin the queen insisted on dissolving parliament, and writs were issued (27 Sept.) for a new House to meet in November.(1967) Harley, who was the queen’s chief adviser, having failed in an attempt to form a coalition of Tories and moderate Whigs, placed all his hopes in the result of a general election. Every effort was made to get a Tory majority returned, and with success. Bishop Burnet, whose Whiggish proclivities are apparent in every page of his history, took no pains to disguise his opinions as to the way the elections were generally carried out, and more particularly in the city of London. "While the poll was taken in London," he writes,(1968) "a new commission for the lieutenancy of the city was sent in, by which a great change was made; Tories were put in and Whigs were left out; in a word, the practice and violence now used in elections went far beyond anything that I have ever known in England." If freedom of election was to count for anything, the worthy bishop entertained grave doubts as to the new parliament being a representative parliament at all. Only one of the old members was returned by the city, viz., Sir William Withers. With him were elected another alderman of the city, viz., Sir Richard Hoare, who had been defeated in the Tory interest at the last election, Sir George Newland and John Cass,(1969) who afterwards became an alderman, and who, at his decease, left money for the foundation of a school in the parish of St. Botoph, Aldgate.

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The new House of Commons being strongly Tory, Harley and St. John found themselves compelled to form a purely Tory ministry. On the 27th the queen delivered a speech in person, reflecting, as was supposed, the policy of the new ministry. To carry on the war with the utmost vigour was, she declared, the surest way of procuring a safe and honourable peace for England and her allies, and in February of the following year (1711) Marlborough was despatched for the avowed purpose of carrying this policy into execution, the Commons being called upon to furnish supplies. Yet in the midst of all this Harley commenced opening secret negotiations for a peace with France, regardless of the interests of England’s allies. By September (1711) these negotiations had so far progressed that preliminaries for a peace were actually signed, but for fear lest the favourable terms obtained for England should provoke the jealousy of the Dutch a garbled edition of the treaty was specially prepared for the edification of our allies. Such was the political morality of the age!

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The High Church party being in power, the queen took the opportunity of enlisting their support for a project she had much at heart. For some time past the want of new churches in the fast increasing suburbs of London had engaged the attention of convocation, by whom the matter had been represented to the queen. Her majesty now commended "so good and pious a work" to the attention of the Commons, a commendation which received additional force from the presentation of petitions from ministers of various parishes in and around London for assistance in carrying out repairs. The Commons showed considerable zeal in the matter, declaring, in their reply to her majesty’s address, that neither the long expensive war in which they were engaged nor the pressure of heavy debts should hinder them from granting whatever was necessary.(1970) A Bill was accordingly brought in (18 May) for the purpose of building fifty new churches, computing 4,750 souls to each church, as well as for providing annual sums of money to be expended on the completion of Westminster Abbey and Greenwich Hospital. The cost was to be defrayed by a further duty on coal. By the 28th May the Bill passed the Commons.(1971)

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In June (1711) parliament was prorogued and did not meet again before December. A compromise was then effected which reflected little credit upon either of the political parties, but secured the passing of the Occasional Conformity Bill, a Bill on which the queen and the high Tories had set their hearts, but which had already been defeated twice by the Lords. The object of the Bill was to inflict penalties upon those Dissenters who, having qualified themselves to sit as common councilmen or as officers in corporations or elsewhere by receiving the Sacrament, afterwards betook themselves to places of worship where the Book of Common Prayer was not used, and where neither the queen nor the Princess Sophia were prayed for.(1972)

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In September (1711) party spirit ran high in the city, the occasion being the election of an alderman for the ward of Broad Street in the place of Sir Joseph Woolfe, deceased. No less than four candidates were nominated by each side, two out of each four being already aldermen. The Tory or Church party were represented by Sir William Withers and William Lewen, aldermen, Sir George Newland and Sir Robert Dunkley, commoners. The Whigs or Dissenters advocated Sir John Houblon and Sir Samuel Stanier, aldermen, Sir John Scott and Gerrard Conyers, commoners. The wardmote was held at Drapers’ Hall, and was presided over by Sir Gilbert Heathcote, the mayor, a strong Whig. It appears from a newspaper of the day(1973) that although the mayor caused the Act of Common Council, setting forth the qualifications of persons who had a right to vote on the occasion, to be read at the wardmote, he refused to make proclamation that those who were not qualified should depart from the hall. The result was that a large number of foreigners and other unqualified persons voted. The lord mayor having declared the show of hands to be in favour of the four Whig candidates, a poll was demanded, which reversed the mayor’s decision. A scrutiny was next asked for and allowed, but the mayor steadily refused to express any opinion as to who of the voters were qualified and who were disqualified without first consulting counsel. The result of the scrutiny was declared (27 Oct.) by the mayor to be in favour of all four Whig candidates, and on the following day he made a report to that effect to the Court of Aldermen, who thereupon elected Gerrard Conyers alderman of the ward. The mayor’s decision, however, was challenged, and a motion was made in the Queen’s Bench for setting it aside as being manifestly wrong and not in accordance with the number of lawful votes. After Heathcote’s year of office had expired the assistance of the Common Council was invoked in support of the rights of electors against such arbitrary proceedings as had recently taken place. The court agreed to the necessary legal expenses being defrayed by the Chamber.(1974)

The practice of nominating as many as four candidates for a vacant aldermanry had prevailed since the commencement of the 15th century,(1975) but the inconvenience arising from this practice became so manifest during this last election that the Common Council passed an Act before the result of the election had been declared, abolishing the custom and enacting that henceforth only two candidates should be put in nomination, one an alderman and the other a commoner.(1976) Even this number was found too many, and within three years was reduced to one commoner,(1977) thus reverting to the primitive custom of the city before it was enacted, _temp._ Richard II, that two (commoners) _at least_ should be nominated for every vacant aldermanry.(1978)

In July, 1712, another dispute arose over the election of an alderman. Sir John Fleet, alderman of the ward of Langbourn, had recently died, and it was necessary to appoint a successor. Four candidates were put up for the post, of whom two were to be selected for nomination to the Court of Aldermen according to the provisions of the recent Act. The wardmote was opened on the 9th July at Pewterers’ Hall. Sir Robert Beachcroft, the lord mayor, was himself one of the candidates, the other three being Sir William Withers, alderman, Sir Samuel Clarke and Peter Delmé, commoners. The show of hands being declared to be in favour of Withers and Clarke, two Tories, a poll was demanded on behalf of his lordship and Delmé. The result, however, was the same, and a scrutiny followed. To the great surprise of a large body of the electors, the mayor eventually declared (22 Aug.) the majority of votes to be in favour of himself and Delmé, but like his predecessor he steadily refused to give any explanation as to how he had arrived at that conclusion. Again there appeared to be no remedy but to apply to the Queen’s Bench. The Common Council was again appealed to (6 Sept.), but whilst the matter was in course of debate the lord mayor was suddenly taken ill, and the court had to break up before coming to any resolution on the matter. On the 12th November, however, the council agreed to assist the petitioners as before, but refused any assistance to Delmé, who had already been admitted alderman, and was about to be put on his defence.(1979)

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In 1713 the relations between the Courts of Aldermen and Common Council became still more strained. The latter complained of the city’s business being hindered from insufficient Courts of Aldermen, and of a newly elected alderman not having been sworn in on a certain day by reason of there not being a _quorum_ of aldermen present. On the 15th May a joint committee of aldermen and commoners was appointed to enquire into the matter. Six weeks elapsed before the committee was ready with its report. At length, on the 30th June, the committee certified(1980) that having examined the minute books of the Court of Aldermen it had found that between the 24th March and the 15th May last six courts had been summoned to meet, but for want of a _quorum_ only one full court had been held. On the other occasions only seven, eight, nine, ten or twelve aldermen appeared, inclusive of the mayor. The committee also found that the courts were in the habit of meeting between twelve and one o’clock, and reported its opinion that such a late hour for meeting was prejudicial to the citizens and others who had business there.

Touching the other matter which had been referred to them, the committee found that on the 7th May the lord mayor had reported to the Court of Aldermen the nomination and election of Sir William Withers, alderman, and Joseph Lawrence to succeed Sir Owen Buckingham in the aldermanry of the ward of Bishopsgate; that Withers declining to remove, had moved that Lawrence should be called in and sworn, according to the provisions of the Act of 1711 for regulating the elections of aldermen; that thereupon a petition was offered and part of the Act was read; that after some debate Lawrence was sent for and came into court; that upon the Common Sergeant being called in to give his opinion seven of the aldermen withdrew from the court, but one of them presently returned, and after hearing the Common Sergeant deliver his opinion—viz., that notwithstanding any petition the court was bound by the Act to admit and swear in Lawrence—again withdrew, notwithstanding the lord mayor’s expressed desire that he should remain; that by this means a full court was not kept (only eleven aldermen being left with the mayor), and so Lawrence, although present, could not be sworn.(1981) The committee’s report was ordered to be entered on the Journal and likewise to be forthwith printed and a copy sent to every member of the Common Council.

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In the meantime the queen had been persuaded to dismiss Marlborough on his return to England (Nov., 1711) from all his offices, and to place the Duke of Ormond, a strong Tory, in command of the English forces in the Netherlands. Negotiations with France were simultaneously pushed on, in spite of a personal visit which Eugene himself paid to London (Jan., 1712) in the hope of obtaining a continuance of English support for carrying on the war. The presence of the illustrious prince was heartily welcomed by the Whigs, by whom he was hospitably entertained. On the 15th January a motion was made in the Court of Aldermen and carried to the effect that the court was prepared to join with as many leading citizens (not exceeding sixty in number) as should be willing in providing an entertainment by private subscription for his highness, provided they first obtained her majesty’s permission. Two aldermen were thereupon nominated to wait upon Lord Dartmouth, principal secretary of state, in order to learn her majesty’s pleasure. There was nothing unusual in this proceeding. Nevertheless the idea of the prince being publicly entertained in the city was so distasteful to the queen and her government that she found fault with the citizens for daring to approach her with a mere verbal message (she was suffering from gout at the time),(1982) and declined to return an answer to any message which was not brought to her "with the same respect as has always been paid by the city of London to her predecessors."(1983) That there might be no mistake about the matter the queen’s answer was sent to the City in writing by Lord Dartmouth. The Court of Aldermen at once appointed a committee to search the City’s Records for the purpose of ascertaining how and in what manner messages had been delivered from the court to her majesty and her predecessors, whether they had usually been in writing or only verbal. On the 5th February the committee reported that they found that such messages had been delivered in a variety of ways: sometimes by the lord mayor alone, sometimes by two or three aldermen, and at other times by the recorder and sheriffs only. One instance had been found of a message having been sent by a single sheriff. Not once did they find that a message had been delivered in writing.(1984) It need scarcely be said that under the circumstances all idea of the entertainment was dropt.

In spite of the prince’s high character the greatest calumnies were whispered against him behind his back. He was said to be conspiring with Marlborough and the Whigs to raise an insurrection in the streets, fire the city and seize the person of the queen. A general panic prevailed. Even the roysterings of a few drunken revellers calling themselves "Mohocks"(1985)—the successors of the "Roreres" and "Riffleres" of a past age—were looked upon as signs and tokens of some deep laid plot, so that more than ordinary precautions had to be taken, both in the city and elsewhere, to prevent riot.(1986) Finding at length that his presence in England did not promote his object the prince, after a stay of some weeks, returned to the Hague.

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By the 6th June negotiations with France had so far advanced that the queen went down to the House of Lords to fulfil, as she said, her promise of communicating to her parliament the terms of peace before it was absolutely concluded. What pleased the citizens most in her elaborate speech was the announcement of the steps taken to secure the Protestant succession to the House of Hanover and for protecting British commerce. For these measures they returned to her majesty their hearty thanks, and expressed their sincere hopes that she might speedily finish the good work which had advanced so far notwithstanding "the artful contrivances and envious efforts of a factious and malicious party."(1987) In August a proclamation was made of a suspension of hostilities,(1988) and on the 31st March, 1713, the Peace of Utrecht was signed.

A fortnight later (14 April, 1713) the Common Council voted a congratulatory address to her majesty on the conclusion of the peace with France, but no copy of the address was to be shown to anyone until it had been actually presented.(1989) On the 5th May the lord mayor and Court of Aldermen attended at Temple Bar to assist at the proclamation, whilst Tuesday the 6th July was observed as a day of public thanksgiving at St. Paul’s. The queen did not attend the service owing probably to indisposition, and the livery companies were on that account excused attendance. The mayor and aldermen displayed no little anxiety to have their proper seats reserved for them in the cathedral.(1990)

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Shortly before the conclusion of the peace the term of Sacheverell’s suspension expired. His popularity became greater than ever. The queen presented him with the living of St. Andrew’s, Holborn, whilst the House of Commons, which had formerly condemned him, now invited him to preach before them.(1991)

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The days of Queen Anne were now fast drawing to a close. For some time past her health had been failing, and at the close of the year (1713) she was confined to her bed at Windsor. Upon notice of her indisposition being conveyed to the Court of Aldermen they at once instructed the sheriffs and the city remembrancer to proceed to Windsor and enquire after her majesty’s health.(1992) The fact that in the event of the queen’s death the legal heir, the Electress Sophia, and her son, the Elector of Hanover, were favourable to the Whig party, drove the Tories to make overtures to the Pretender, the queen’s brother, who was still living in France, although by the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht Louis had promised to abandon his cause. On the 1st February (1714) the queen wrote to the lord mayor(1993) (Sir Samuel Stanier) informing him that she was recovering her health and hoped soon to return to her "usual residence." She further informed his lordship of her determination to open her parliament on the 16th, according to the notice given by proclamation, and desired him to communicate the same to the Court of Aldermen and to her other loving subjects of the city. Again the sheriffs and remembrancer were instructed to go to Windsor and tender the court’s acknowledgments of her majesty’s favour and to assure her that they would discountenance to the utmost of their power and put a stop to "those malicious rumours which had been so industriously spread by evil disposed persons to the prejudice of credit and the imminent hazard of public peace and tranquility."(1994) Saturday the 6th was the queen’s birthday, and extra precautions were taken in the city to prevent tumult or disorder.(1995) A week later her majesty had so far recovered her health as to meditate returning to town, and the Common Council prepared (12 Feb.) to greet her with a congratulatory address.(1996)

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On the 21st June (1714) a royal proclamation was issued offering a reward of £5,000 for the apprehension of the Pretender in case he should effect a landing.(1997) The proclamation afforded the City an opportunity of further testifying its loyalty to the queen and its determination to uphold the Protestant succession as by law established, and at the same time to thank her majesty for passing an Act entitled "An Act to prevent the growth of Schism"—an Act aimed against the Whigs, and which forbade anyone keeping a school without licence from the bishop.(1998)

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On the morning of Friday the 30th July the queen was seized with her last illness. Notification was immediately despatched to the lord mayor, who reported the news to a special Court of Aldermen that afternoon. The Secretary of State, who had written to the mayor, had desired his lordship to take immediate steps to preserve quiet in the city. The court, on being informed of the turn of affairs, despatched the sheriffs, the common cryer and the water bailiff to Kensington to enquire after the queen’s health and to assure her majesty that every possible care would be taken to preserve the peace of the city in any event.(1999) Two days later (1 Aug.) Anne was dead.

END OF VOL. II.

FOOTNOTES

M1 The accession of James, 24 March, 1603.

1 Journal 26, fo. 73.

M2 Correspondence between the king and the City.

2 Letter to the mayor, etc., of London, 28 March.—Journal 26, fo. 75b.

3 Letter dated 29th March.—Journal 26, fo. 76. The Court of Aldermen allowed Fletcher forty marks towards the expenses of his journey.—Repertory 26, pt. i, fo. 119b.

4 Letter dated Newcastle, 11th April, 1603.—Journal 26, fo. 80. See Appendix.

M3 James leaves Edinburgh for London, 5 April.

5 Journal 26, fos. 78b, 82, 82b, 88.

6 Journal 26, fo. 81b.

7 Repertory 26, pt. i, fo. 131b.

M4 The citizens ride forth to meet him, 7 May.

8 It is computed that more than 230 knights were created by James on his passage from Edinburgh to the Tower. The lord mayor (Lee) was knighted at Greenwich on the 22nd May. At the king’s coronation, which took place in July, all the aldermen of the city who were not already knights were knighted at Whitehall.—Nichols, "Progresses of King James I," i, 113n, 120, 234.

M5 The plague of 1603.

9 Howes’s Chron., p. 827; Journal 26, fos. 74, 114b, 116b; Repertory 26, pt. i, fo. 171.

10 Journal 26, fo. 98.

11 Repertory 26, pt. ii, fo. 361.

12 Journal 26, fos. 103b, 122b, 124b, 125b, 127; Repertory 26, pt. i, fo. 149b. In May of the following year the king himself lost two beagles, which had strayed and probably been killed.—Journal 26, fo. 211b. In 1611 the queen also lost her dog, and a liberal reward was offered for its recovery. The animal was described as being "lowe and thicke, of a meene coulor, and his taile turninge up to the middle of his backe."—Journal 28. fo. 284.

13 Journal 28, fos. 116, 126, 126b.

14 Journal 28, fos. 145, 145b. The Merchant Taylors contributed the largest quantity (936 qrs.): they were followed by the Grocers (874 qrs.), the Mercers (820 qrs.), the Goldsmiths (809 qrs.), next to which came the Drapers (768 qrs.) and the Haberdashers (724 qrs.).

M6 The king’s public passage through the city, 15 Mar., 1604.

15 The amount at which each company was assessed will be found printed from the City’s Records in Nichols’ "Progresses of King James I," i, 400, 401.

16 Journal 26, fos. 163, 164, 178, 179b.

17 Journal 26, fo. 178b.

18 Journal 26, fos. 186, 188; Repertory 26, pt. ii, fo. 311.

19 Nichols, "Progresses of King James I," i, 360, 361.

M7 Catholic plots against the king, June, 1603.

20 Journal 26, fos. 111, 117b, 118b.

21 Id., fo. 174.

M8 The first parliament of James, Mar., 1604.

22 Return to writ of parliament, 31 Jan.—Journal 26, fo. 171.

23 For particulars of his life, see Remembrancia (Analytical Index), p. 2n.

24 Id. p. 23n.

25 Id., p. 176n.

M9 Proposed union of England and Scotland.

26 Peace with Spain, for which negotiations had been entered into as soon as James came to the throne, was concluded in the summer of this year (18 Aug.), but was not acceptable to the nation at large, and much less to the citizens of London. "I can assure your mightiness," wrote the State’s Ambassador, Caron, "that no promulgation was ever received in London with more coolness—yes, with more sadness.... The people were admonished to make bonfires, but you may be very sure not a bonfire was to be seen."—Motley, "United Netherlands," iv, 223, 224. For payments made by the city chamberlain to heralds on the occasion of proclamation of the peace, see Repertory 26, pt. ii, fo. 436.

27 James assumed the title of King of Great Britain by proclamation dated 20 Oct., 1604.—Journal 26, fo. 271.

28 King’s writ of proclamation of the union to the mayor and sheriffs of London, dated 22 Oct., 1604.—_Id._, _Ibid._

M10 Attempt to put down purveyance.

29 The first charter of Edward III, granted to the citizens of London (6 March, 1327) with the assent of parliament, expressly forbade the king’s purveyors taking goods contrary to the will and pleasure of the citizens, except for cash; and no prisage of wines was thenceforth to be taken under any consideration.—_Cf._ Stat. 4, Edw. III, c. 3; 5, Edw. III, c. 2; 25, Edw. III, c. 1; 36, Edw. III, c. 2.

30 Journal 27, fo. 36.

31 Remembrancia, ii, 262 (Analytical Index, p. 409).

M11 The House of Commons and Free Trade.

32 Journal House of Commons, 21 May, 1604, i, 218.

33 The fact that the custom dues of London amounted to £110,000 a year, whereas those of the rest of the kingdom amounted to only £17,000, was adduced in support of their case.

34 Journal House of Commons, i, 218.

M12 The Speaker and Commons entertained at Merchant Taylors’ Hall, 3 July, 1604.

35 Journal House of Commons, 3 July, i. 251, 252.

M13 Prince Henry becomes a Merchant Taylor, 17 July, 1607.

36 The Merchant Taylors displayed no little jealousy at the Clothworkers having forestalled them; and as the mayor for the time being—Sir John Watts—happened to be a Clothworker, it was thought that he would do his best to prevent Prince Henry also from joining the Merchant Taylors. They accordingly declined to invite the mayor and aldermen to the banquet.—Clode’s "Memorials of the Merchant Taylors’ Company," pp. 147-160.

M14 A City loan of £15,000, Aug., 1604.

37 Journal 26, fos. 241b, 243b; _Cf._ Letter Book BB, fos. 288, 289b.

38 Letter Book BB, fo. 259b.

M15 The gunpowder plot, 1604-1605.

39 The king to the lords commissioners [for the plot], 6 Nov.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1603-1610), p. 241. The "gentler tortoures" were to be applied first, "_et sic per gradus ad ima tenditur_."

40 Journal 27, fos. 3b, 7.

41 Id., fos. 2b, 5b, 6.

42 Journal 27, fo. 4.

43 Journal 27, fo. 5; _Cf._ fos. 14b, 15, 19.

44 Id., fo. 8b.

45 Howes’s Chron., p. 881.

46 Journal 27, fo. 19.

47 Journal 27, fo. 17.

48 Howes’s Chron., p. 882.

M16 Rumour of the king being assassinated 22 March, 1606.

49 Journal 27, fo. 30b.

50 Journal 27, fo. 48b.

M17 Visit of the king of Denmark to England, July, 1606.

51 Id., fo. 73.

52 Id., fos. 73b, 75.

53 Repertory 27, fo. 252b.

54 Journal 27, fo. 75b.

M18 The city’s water supply.

55 Proclamation, 7 July, 22 Eliz. (1580).—Journal 21, fo. 54.

56 Remembrancia (Index), _s.v._ "Buildings."

57 Stat. 35 Henry VIII, c. 10.

58 Stat. 13 Eliz., c. 18.

59 Journal 21, fo. 251; Journal 22, fos. 47, 53b. The Common Sergeant of the city, Bernard Randolph, also rendered him pecuniary assistance.—Remembrancia (Index), p. 553.

60 Repertory 22, fos. 270, 281, 376b.

61 Repertory 22, fos. 270, 281, 376b.

62 Journal 23, fos. 209, 210.

M19 Hugh Middleton and the New River Company, 1609-1613.

63 The bill was introduced into parliament on the 30 Jan., 1606, and passed the Commons on the 30 May.—Journal House of Commons, i, 261, 310. By Stat. 4 Jas. I, c. 12, the former Act was so far amended as to allow the City to convey water underground.

64 Journal 27, fos. 54, 77, 89b, 144b, 396; Journal 28, fos. 16b, 81.

65 Journal 27, fo. 89; Repertory 27, fos. 312, 269b.

66 Journal 27, fo. 377b. Another agreement was subsequently drawn up bearing date the 28 March, 1611, and this being executed by Middleton the former agreement was ordered to be cancelled.—Repertory 30, fo. 100.

M20 Opposition to Middleton’s work.

67 The lord mayor to the lords of the council, 10 July, 1609.—Remembrancia, ii, 347 (Index, pp. 554-555).

68 See Paper containing "objections against the river," with answers.—Cal. State Papers Dom., vol. lxxviii, No. 106.

69 Journal House of Commons, i, 442, 445.

70 "Mr. Beaulieu to Mr. Trumbull, resident at Brussells," 9 May, 1610.—Winwood’s Memorials, iii, 160.

71 Repertory 29, fo. 231.

M21 Pecuniary assistance granted to Middleton by James, May, 1612.

72 Journal 28, fo. 176b.

73 These "king’s shares," as they were called to distinguish them from "adventurers’ shares," were sold by Charles I in 1636 for an annuity of £500, entered on the company’s books and paid yearly as the "king’s clog." Both classes of shares have become so valuable that they have been subjected to frequent sub-division. At a sale by auction, which took place in London, 15 Nov., 1893, an undivided adventurers’ share fetched £94,900.

M22 The New River opened, 29 Sept., 1613.

74 Alderman of Queenhithe and Coleman Street Wards; Sheriff 1603. From 1624 to 1626 was one of the representatives of the city in parliament. His brother Robert had sat for the same constituency in the parliament of 1614.—Repertory 26, pt. i, fo. 146b; Repertory 31, pt. ii, fo. 282b; Parliamentary Return 1879 (Appendix), p. xxxix.

M23 Compulsory use of the New River water, 1616.

75 Remembrancia (Index), p. 557.

76 Id., p. 558.

77 Id., p. 559.

78 The first dividend was paid in 1633.—Smiles, "Lives of the Engineers," pp. 130, 131.

M24 A City loan of £3,000 to Middleton, Sept., 1614.

79 Repertory 31, pt. ii, fo. 396.

M25 Middleton created a baronet, Oct., 1622.

80 In 1611 "James offered the title of baronet to all who would pay the exchequer £1,080 in three annual payments, being the sum required for the pay of a hundred foot-soldiers for three years."—Gardiner, "Hist. of Eng. (1613-1616)," i, 560.

81 Cal. State Papers Dom. (1619-1623), p. 455.

82 Remembrancia, iii, 114, viii, 3 (Index, pp. 462-465).

M26 The City votes Middleton a gold chain, Nov., 1623.

83 "Court and Times of James I," ii, 433.

84 Repertory 38, fo. 12; Letter Book II, fo. 51.

85 Letter Book II, fo. 51b.

M27 Death of Middleton, 10 Dec, 1631.

86 Repertory 47, fos. 45b, 58, 89b, 105b, 300b.

M28 Grant of £1,000 to Lady Middleton, 1634.

87 Journal 36, fos. 37, 292, 292b.

88 Repertory 49, fo. 195b.

M29 The New River Company petition the City for an immediate grant of all that had been conveyed to Middleton. 10 June, 1726.

89 Journal 57, fos. 143b, 144.

M30 The plantation of Ulster.

90 Report of Commissioners, 20 Dec., 1608; Second Report, Jan., 1609.—Cal. State Papers Ireland (1608-1610), pp. 117, 139.

91 "Orders and Conditions of the Ulster Plantation."—Cal. State Papers Ireland (1608-1610), p. 139. Chichester to the Privy Council, 10 Mar., 1609.—_Id._, p. 157.

92 See the City’s Petition to the House of Commons, in Jan., 1641.—Journal 39, fo. 164.

93 Cal. State Papers Ireland (1608-1610), pp. 207-210.

M31 Motives and reasons to encourage the City to take part in the plantation, 28 May, 1609.

M32 The matter laid before a special Court of Aldermen, 1 July, 1609.

M33 Referred to the livery companies.

94 Repertory 29, fo. 52b.

95 Journal 27, fo. 386b. The following were the companies to whom, in addition to the twelve principal companies, the precept was sent:—Dyers, Leathersellers, Pewterers, Cutlers, Whitebakers, Tallow Chandlers, Armourers, Girdlers, Saddlers, Barber-Surgeons, Plumbers, Innholders, Coopers, Joiners, Weavers, Woodmongers, Scriveners, Stationers and Embroiderers.

96 Repertory 29, fo. 60b. The answer of the companies is not entered, a blank space being left.

97 Repertory 29, fo. 61b.

M34 A conference with the lords of the council.

98 Journal 27, fo. 387b.

M35 Commissioners appointed by the City to view the plantation, 1 Aug., 1609.

99 Journal 27, fo. 398. John "Mun," or "Muns," mercer, was afterwards substituted for Hugh Hamersley.

M36 The system of deception practised on them.

100 Two letters from the lords of the council to Sir Arthur Chichester, 3 Aug., 1609.—Philadelphia Papers (Transcripts, Public Record Office), vol. i, pp. 498-501.

101 Sir John Davys to Salisbury, 28 Aug., 1609.—Cal. State Papers Ireland (1608-1610), pp. 280-281.

102 Sir Arthur Chichester to Salisbury, 18 Sept., 1609.—Cal. State Papers Ireland (1608-1610), pp. 285-287.

M37 Report of commissioners, 28 Nov., 1609.

103 Repertory 29, fos. 137b, 138. The Chamberlain having paid over to them. £415 9_s._, the court subsequently ordered the bridge-masters to repay the chamberlain that amount.—_Id._, fo. 149b.

104 These directions unfortunately appear to have been neglected in both cases, for the report does not appear either in the Journal or Remembrancia.

105 Journal 28, fo. 16.

M38 The City’s proposal to undertake the plantation and to raise the sum of £15,000 for the purpose, 15 Dec., 1609.

106 Id., fos. 19-20b.

M39 The City’s offer to raise £15,000 rejected as insufficient.

107 Id., fo. 24.

M40 The sum of £20,000 levied on livery companies according to corn assessment.

108 Another sum of £5,000 was levied in the following March, another in August, and the remainder in March, 1611. The Merchant Taylors, being assessed at 936 quarters of corn, were called upon to contribute £1,872 towards the £20,000 by instalments of £468; the Grocers (the next highest in the corn assessment) £1,748, the Mercers £1,640, and so on in a descending scale to the Bowyers, the Fletchers, the Woolmen and the Musicians, each of whom subscribed respectively £10.—Journal 28, fos. 24, 32, 32b.

109 Journal 28, fos. 53, 53b.

110 Id., fos. 103, 113-114b.

M41 The "Articles" of the plantation signed, 28 Jan., 1610.

111 Cal. State Papers Ireland (1608-1610), pp. 136, 137, 359-362. An abstract of the articles is printed in "a concise view ... of the Irish Society" (pp. 9-13); where, however, the date of signing the agreement is given as Jan., 1609, this date being in accordance with the Old Style.

M42 The formation of the "Irish Society."

112 Journal 28, fos. 46-49b.

113 Lords of the council to Sir Arthur Chichester, 4 Feb., 1610.—Cal. State Papers Ireland (1608-1610), p. 378.

M43 The City forced to surrender 2,000 acres of their Irish estate, July, 1610.

114 Journal 28, fos. 90, 115.

M44 Difficulties experienced in raising the £20,000 for the plantation.

115 Repertory 29, fos. 219b, 235b, 250b, 253b, 254.

116 Remembrancia (Index), p. 172.

117 Chichester to Salisbury, 27 June, 1610.—Cal. State Papers Ireland (1608-1610), p. 473.

M45 The companies to take up allotment of Irish estate, Jan., 1611.

118 Journal 28, fos. 159b, 163.

119 Id., fo. 176.

M46 A further sum of £10,000 to be raised for the plantation, July, 1611.

120 Journal 28, fos. 239b, 240.

121 Id., fo. 323.

M47 The Irish Society incorporated, 29 March, 1613.

122 Minutes of the Grocers’ Company, 24 July, 1612.

M48 Another £10,000 demanded of the companies, 30 April, 1613.

123 Journal 28, fo. 344b.

124 Journal 29, fo. 49.

M49 The Londoners charged with remissness in carrying out the work of the plantation.

125 Cal. State Papers Ireland (1611-1614), p. 310.

126 Cal. State Papers Ireland (1611-1614), pp. 228-229, 270.

M50 Two special commissioners sent to Ireland, June, 1613.

127 Journal 29, fo. 74b, 75.

M51 Their report submitted to the Common Council, 8 Nov., 1613.

128 The report was dated Dublin, 15 Oct.—Journal 29, fos. 116b-118.

M52 Allotment of the Irish estate among the companies, 17 Dec., 1613.

129 Journal 29, fos. 178b-186.

130 Skinners’ Company and the Irish Society (House of Lords, p. 12).

131 17 Dec, 1613.—Journal 29, fo. 186. The money was to be forthcoming before 1 Feb., 1614.

132 11 Jan., 1615.—Journal 29, fo. 299. £5,000 was to be raised by the end of the month, and the residue (£2,500) before the 1st day of May.

133 Skinners’ Company and the Irish Society (Appendix to case before House of Lords, p. 13).

M53 The right of the companies to sell their Irish estate questioned.

M54 The select Parliamentary Committee of 1890.

134 Report of Select Committee on Irish Society and the London Companies (Irish estates), 4 May, 1891, p. iii.

135 One of the articles (No. 10) of the plantation expressly stated that after five years the undertakers should be at liberty to alien to all persons except the "mere Irish" and such persons as refused to take the oath prescribed for the undertakers.—Skinners’ Company and the Irish Society (Appendix to case before House of Lords, p. 147).

M55 The plantation of Virginia, 1609.

M56 Application to the City for assistance.

136 The letter is not entered on the City’s Records, but it will be found printed in the late Mr. Clode’s "Memorials of the Merchant Taylors’ Company" and in Mr. Brown’s "Genesis of the United States," i, 252. The letter does not bear any date, but must have been written before the 16th March, 1609, as on that day the mayor issued his precept to the several companies, enclosing a copy of the letter, and asking them to "make some adventure" in so good and honourable an undertaking.—Journal 27, fo. 346b.

M57 Contributions by the livery companies.

137 Brown’s "Genesis of the United States," ii, 857, _seq._

138 See bill of adventure granted to the Merchant Taylors’ Company, 4 May, 1609 (printed from the company’s archives).—Brown, i, 308.

M58 The company’s new charter, 23 May, 1609.

139 Brown, i, 208-237; ii, 890.

M59 Outbreak of yellow fever among the colonists.

140 Brown, i, 329.

M60 The company again re-constructed, 12 March, 1612.

141 Letter from the clerk of the company to Mr. Brown, 18 April, 1885.—"Genesis of the United States," i, 442.

142 Brown, i, 465-469.

143 Id., ii, 540-553.

M61 A public lottery in aid of the company.

144 Art. xvi.

145 Baker’s Chron., p. 413; Howes’s Chron. (ed. 1615), p. 913.

146 Vid. sup., vol. i, p. 507.

147 Extract from Grocers’ records.—Brown, ii, 591.

148 Extract from Vestry Minutes.—_Id._, ii, 571-572.

149 Extract from Churchwardens’ book.—_Id._, ii, 572.

150 Howes’s Chron. (ed. 1615), p. 913.

M62 The public lottery of 1614.

151 Neither this letter nor anything else connected with this lottery appears to be entered on the City’s Records. The letter will be found printed (whence taken we are not told) in Brown’s "Genesis of the United States," ii, 685. The letter is not entered in the Minute Book of the Merchant Taylors’ Company, as was the former letter.

152 For the mayor’s letter on this occasion, see Brown, ii, 688.

153 Clode, "Early Hist. of the Merchant Taylors’ Company," p. 325.

154 Brown, ii, 686-688.

M63 The Virginia Company and the House of Commons.

155 Journal House of Commons, i, 487-489; Chamberlain to Carleton, 19 May, 1614.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1611-1618), p. 234.

M64 Vagrant children sent to Virginia, 1618-1619.

156 Journal 30, fos. 374b, 396.

157 Chamberlain, writing to Carleton under date the 14th Oct., mentions the fact of the City shipping to Virginia 100 boys and girls who were starving in the streets.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1611-1618), p. 584.

158 Journal 31, fo. 122 (125).

M65 Disagreement between the City and the Virginia Company.

159 Remembrancia, v, 56 (Analytical Index, p. 362).

160 The company appears to have applied through Sir Edwin Sandys, its new treasurer, for a warrant to "enforce" the transportation of the hundred children to be sent to Virginia at the City’s expense, 28 Jan., 1620.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1611-1618), p. 118.

M66 Loafers about the court transported to Virginia. 1619.

161 Remembrancia, v, 8 (Analytical Index, p. 361).

162 Remembrancia, v, 9.

M67 Copland’s sermon at Bow Church, 18 April, 1622.

163 The sermon is reproduced in "Memoir of Rev. Patrick Copland," by Edward D. Neill (New York, 1871), chap. iii.

164 This prophecy was literally fulfilled by the gift of half a million of money for the relief of the poor of London by the late George Peabody, himself a descendant of an emigrant to North Virginia.

165 Journal 32, fo. 66.

M68 The king’s financial condition, 1610.

166 Upon the occasion of Prince Henry coming of age and receiving knighthood in 1609 James demanded an "aid" of the City, and thus ran the risk of offending the citizens for a paltry sum of £1,200.—Journal 27, fo. 357; Journal 29, fo. 304.

167 Proclamation for dissolution, dated 31 Dec., 1610.—Journal 28, fo. 156.

M69 A City Loan of £100,000, April, 1610.

168 Repertory 29, fos. 207-209b, 220, 225.

169 John More to Ralph Winwood, 15 Dec., 1610.—Winwood’s Memorials, iii, 239.

170 Repertory 30, fo. 108b.

171 Remembrancia, iii, 58 (Index, p. 189).

172 "Account of the amount paid for principal and interest on a loan of £100,000 by the citizens of London to his late majesty (James I). The money was lent in Easter Term, 1611 (1610?), and was repaid in April, 1613, £22,500 being paid for interest."—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1625-1626), p. 203.

M70 Concessions made to the city by James, 1608-1610.

173 Charter dated 24 Sept., 6 James I (preserved at the Guildhall, Box 20).

174 A full description of the water-fight, fireworks, etc., which took place on the occasion is printed by Nichols,—"Progresses of James I." ii, 315-323.

175 Journal 28, fo. 96.

M71 The king’s "privy seals," 1611.

176 "The privy seals begin now to come abroad thick and threefold. On Sunday was seven-night; most of the strangers were greeted with them in form of letters as they came out of church; a course, in my opinion, not so well taken, to be done in view and sight of all the world, which might have been better performed in delivering them to every man privately at home."—Chamberlain to Carleton, 18 Dec., 1611.—"Court and Times of James I," i, 153.

M72 The marriage of the Elector Palatine with the Princess Elizabeth, 14 Feb., 1613.

177 Journal 28, fos. 336b, 345; Repertory 30, fo. 397b.

178 Nichols, "Progresses of James I," ii, 466.

179 Chamberlain to Carleton, 4 Nov., 1612.—"Court and Times of James I," i, 202; _Cf._ Cal. State Papers Dom. (1611-1618), p. 145.

180 Journal 28, fo. 345b.

181 Repertory 31, pt. i, fo. 1.

182 On the 8th Nov., the day following the prince’s death, the lords of the council directed the mayor to put down all plays, shows, bear-baitings, etc., as being unsuited to the times and a scandal to good government at any time.—Remembrancia, iii, 64 (Index, p. 410).

183 Chamberlain to Carleton, 19 Nov., 1612.—"Court and Times of James I," i, 207.

M73 A further search for Recusants, Feb., 1613.

184 Remembrancia, iii, 66, 67 (Index, pp. 131, 132); Journal 29, fo. 3.

185 Remembrancia, iii, 74 (Index, p. 132).

M74 The king and court entertained in Merchant Taylors’ Hall, 4 Jan., 1614.

186 "The lord mayor was sent for by the king to entertain the new married couple, with their friends and followers; but he making an excuse that his house was too little to receive them, it was not accepted, but word sent back that he might command the biggest hall in the town."—Chamberlain to Carleton, 5 Jan.—"Court and Times of James I," i, 288.

187 Repertory 31, pt. ii, fos. 235, 239b. The minutes of the Court of Aldermen relative to the proposed entertainment are printed in Nichols, "Progresses of James I," ii, 731.

188 £671 4_s._ 3_d._ was the exact sum disbursed by the chamberlain on account of the entertainment.—Repertory 31, pt. ii, fo. 243b.

189 Repertory 31, pt. ii, fo. 235.

190 Nichols, "Progresses of James I," vol. ii, p. 726.

M75 The "addled parliament," 1614.

191 "Our aldermen have new privy seals for £200 apiece before their old money be paid."—Chamberlain to Carleton, 10 June, 1613.—"Court and Times of James I," i, 244; _Cf._ Cal. State Papers Dom. (1611-1618), p. 186.

192 "This Meeting or Assembly is to be held a blank parliament, or rather a parley, not leaving so much as the name of a session, but (as the words went) ’_Parliamentum inchoatum_.’"—Chamberlain to Carleton, 9 Jan.—"Court and Times," i, 322.

M76 A City loan of £100,000 declined, July, 1614.

193 Chamberlain to Carleton, 30 June, 1614.—"Court and Times," i, 328; Cal. State Papers Dom. (1611-1618), p. 239; Remembrancia, iii, 152 (Index, p. 190).

194 The same to the same. 7 July, 1614.—Cal. State Papers Dom., (1611-1618), p. 242; City’s Records, Letter Book EE, fo. 244.

M77 Sheriffs’ fines.

195 Repertory 31, pt. ii, fos. 348b, 362, 362b, 369b, 422; Repertory 32, fos. 104b-139b, _passim_; Letter Book EE, fo. 240b.

M78 Peter Proby, sheriff and ex-barber.

196 "On Tuesday last he [Sir Arthur Ingram] was chosen sheriff of London, but hath procured the king’s letters to be discharged. They have chosen two or three more, both before and since, and none of them hold. Some say it is because they will not be matched with Peter Proby, who, from being some time secretary Walsingham’s barber, was lately chosen alderman, and contrary to expectations took it upon him; which troubles them all, for he is a shrewd nimble-witted fellow."—Chamberlain to Alice Carleton, 30 June, 1614.—"Court and Times of James I." i, 330; Cal. State Papers Dom. (1611-1618), p. 240.

197 Journal 30, fo. 60.

M79 The city’s trained bands, 1614-1618.

198 Journal 29, fo. 237b.

199 Journal 29, fos. 239b _seq._

200 Id., fols. 242b-244.

M80 The trained band divided into four regiments, 1616.

201 Journal 29, fos. 329, 349b.

202 Letter dated 17 March, 1616.—Journal 30, fo. 47b; Letter Book FF, fo. 147b.

M81 Letter from the lords of the council, 24 April, 1616.

203 24 April. The letter was read to the Common Council the 24th May.—Journal 30, fo. 60.

M82 A muster in Finsbury Fields, 6 Aug., 1616.

204 Journal 30, fos. 74b, 89.

M83 Commission of lieutenancy granted to the City, 30 April, 1617.

205 Commission, dated 30 April, 1617.—Journal 30, fo. 233.

M84 The commission withdrawn, May, 1618.

206 Journal 30, fos. 374b, 375.

207 Id., fo. 376.

M85 The old Company of Merchant Adventurers suppressed, 21 Feb., 1615. 12 Aug., 1617.

208 By proclamation, dated 23 July, 1614.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1611-1618), p. 247.

209 By proclamation, dated 12 Aug., 1617.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1611-1618), p. 481.

M86 The City consents to a loan of £30,000, July, 1615.

210 13 July, 1615.—Nichols, "Progresses," iii, 95; Cal. State Papers Dom. (1611-1618), p. 294.

M87 The king entertained at Alderman Cockaine’s house. 8 June, 1616.

211 Chamberlain to Carleton, 8 June, 1616; the same to the same, 22 June.—"Court and Times," i, 411, 412.

M88 Knights of the Bath at Drapers’ Hall, Nov., 1616.

212 Chamberlain to Carleton, 14 Nov., 1616.—"Court and Times," i, 437.

M89 Request for a loan of £100,000, 1617.

213 Letter dated 20th January, 1617.—Journal 30, fo. 159; Letter Book FF, fo. 250; Remembrancia, viii, 44-90 (Index, p. 198).

214 Cal. State Papers Dom. (1611-1618), p. 428. He contrived, however, to raise the sum of £60,000 on them in another quarter.—_Id._, p. 447.

M90 Difficulty experienced in raising the money.

215 Chamberlain to Carleton, 15th March.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1611-1618), p. 446.

216 Remembrancia, iv, 79 (Index, pp. 190-191).

217 Remembrancia, iv, 81-84 (Index p. 191).

218 Letter dated 28th May. 1617.—Remembrancia, iv, 75 (Index, p. 190). On the previous 23rd April the Earl of Suffolk, writing to Sir Thomas Lake, had remarked that the city did not yield quite £80,000, but that the council would try and obtain the full £100,000.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1611-1618), p. 461.

M91 Reception of James on his return from Scotland, Sept., 1617.

219 Journal 30, fo. 228b.

220 Repertory 33, fo. 166b.

221 Nichols, "Progresses," iii, 437. Freeman afterwards became alderman of Bishopsgate Ward, sheriff in 1623, mayor in 1633.

M92 Letter from lords of council touching king’s inability to repay loan, 17 March, 1618.

222 Remembrancia, iv, 103.

M93 Death of the queen, March, 1619.

223 Nichols, "Progresses," iii, 534-535.

224 Chamberlain to Carleton, 17th April.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1619-1623), p. 37.

225 Sir Gerard Herbert to Carleton, 31st May.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1619-1623), p. 49. "A note of the division of the cloth receyved from the Kings Maties wardrobe for the mourneing garments of the Lord Maior Aldermen and their followers, at the funerall of the late Queene Anne, wife to or Soveraigne Lord King James."—Journal 31, fo. 69. The length of cloth amounted to 648-1/2 yards.

M94 Sebastian Hervey and his daughter.

226 Rev. Thomas Lorking to Sir Thomas Puckering, 24 May, 1619.—"Court and Times," ii, 166-167.

227 Chamberlain to Carleton, 15 July, 1619.—"Court and Times," ii, 182.

228 The same to the same, 31 May.—Nichols, "Progresses," iii. 549.

M95 The commencement of the Thirty Years’ War, 1618.

M96 The Elector applies to the City for assistance, Nov., 1619.

229 Remembrancia. v, 39 (Index, p. 411).

230 Id. v, 58.

231 Id. v, 60.

232 This was mere pretence on the part of James, for Lord Doncaster, who had been sent abroad in April (1619) to concert measures for a peaceful settlement, had returned at the opening of the year (1620), and James had for some weeks been busy investigating the Elector’s title.—Nichols, "Progresses," iii, 584; Gardiner, "Hist. of England (1617-1623)," i, 308.

M97 Formal application for a city loan of £100,000, 28 Feb., 1620.

M98 The City agrees to advance the money.

233 Remembrancia, v, 62 (Index, p. 412, where the sum required has been inadvertently printed as "£10,000").

234 Nethersole to Carleton, 20 Feb.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1619-1623), p. 124.

235 Gardiner. "Hist. of England (1617-1623)," i, 316. Chamberlain to Carleton, 20 Mar., 1620.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1619-1623), p. 131.

236 Nethersole to Carleton. 21 Mar.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1619-1623), p. 132.

237 Remembrancia, v, 65 (Index, p. 412).

238 It has been said that application was in the first instance made to the companies, but they declined to advance money on so slight a security as a verbal recommendation from the king.—Gardiner, "Hist. of England (1617-1623)," i, 316. There is no indication of this, however, in the City’s Records.

239 Journal 31, fo. 167.

M99 State visit to St. Paul’s, 26 March, 1620.

240 Journal 31, fos. 157-158, 164, 164b; Repertory 34, fos. 377, 379; Nichols, "Progresses," iv, 593-602.

241 Nethersole to Carleton, 21 March.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1619-1623), p. 132.

242 Repertory 34, fo. 389.

M100 James determined to assist the Elector.

243 Writ dated 6 Nov.—Journal 31, fo. 253.

244 Cal. State Papers Dom. (1619-1623), p. 185.

M101 Application to the City for assistance.

245 Remembrancia, v, 89 (Index. pp. 412-413).

246 Sir Clement Edmonds to the lord mayor, 3 Dec., 1620, reminding him that the lords of the council were awaiting the City’s reply.—Remembrancia, v, 92 (Index, p. 413).

247 Journal 31, fo. 262b.

248 Repertory 35, fos. 59, 59b.

249 Remembrancia, v, 102, 118 (Index, pp. 413, 414).

250 Repertory 35, fo. 57b. On the 22nd Dec. Chamberlain wrote to Carleton to the effect that the City thought it hard that, though their loan of £100,000 was still retained without interest, and a contribution given to Bohemia, another large loan should be asked; that the City compromised it by giving £10,000, and would sell plate and dispense with feasts until it was paid.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1619-1623), p. 201.

251 Lords of the council to the mayor, etc., 4 Dec., 1620.—Remembrancia, v, 94 (Index, p. 413).

252 Petition of Apothecaries’ Company to the king, Oct., 1621.—Remembrancia, v, 118 (Index, p. 414).

M102 The parliament of 1621.

253 Journal 31, fo. 264.

M103 The citizens and the Spanish ambassador.

254 The Spanish ambassador for the time being often fell foul of the Londoners. In 1612 his hat with a valuable jewel in it was snatched off his head amid the jeers of by-standers.—"Court and Times," i, 191, 192. In 1618 an attack was made on his house because one of his suite had ridden over a child and nearly killed it. A commission sat at the Guildhall to punish the offenders, but the mayor treated those who had offered the insult to the ambassador with such leniency that the king waxed wroth.—_Id._, ii, 81-82, 85, 86.

255 Meddus to Mead, 6 April. [Dr. James Meddus was rector of St. Gabriel’s, Fenchurch Street.] Mead to Stuteville, 9 April.—"Court and Times," ii, 245-249. Chamberlain to Carleton, 7 April.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1619-1623), p. 244.

256 Repertory 35, fos. 141b, 142.

257 Journal 31, fo. 303.

258 Repertory 35, fo. 142b.

259 Repertory 35, fos. 142b, 143.

M104 Insult offered to the Elector and his wife.

260 "Court and Times," ii, 256; Gardiner, ii, 14.

M105 The City asked to advance £20,000 on security of subsidy, March, 1621.

261 Remembrancia, v, 103 (Index, p. 413).

262 Marginal note to the lord treasurer’s letter.

M106 Joy in the city at the return of Charles from Spain, Oct., 1623.

263 Mead to Stuteville, 29 March, 1623. The writer of this letter appears to have lost the point of the jest, and ascribes the circumstance to the pure simplicity of the clergyman, who mistook the nature of the order.—"Court and Times," ii, 381.

264 Chamberlain to Carleton, 5 April, 1623; Mead to Stuteville, 5 April, 1623.—"Court and Times," ii, 383-385.

265 Journal 32, fo. 222.

266 Chamberlain to Carleton, 11 Oct., 1623.—"Court and Times," ii, 422.

M107 The parliament of 1624.

M108 The French alliance.

M109 Efforts made to raise money in the city, July, 1624.

267 "Court and Times," ii, 463-464.

268 Remembrancia, vi, 125 (Index, pp. 195-196).

M110 Mansfeld in London, Sept., 1624.

M111 Stat. 21, Jas. I, c. 2 (1624), relative to concealed lands.

269 An Act for the general quiet of the subjects against all pretences of concealment whatsoever.—Stat. 21, James I, c. 2.

270 Remembrancia, iv, 126 (Index, p. 115).

271 Cal. State Papers Dom. (1619-1623), pp. 4-5.

272 Cal. State Papers Dom. (1619-1623), p. 89; Remembrancia, v, 81 (Index, p. 116).

273 Remembrancia, v, 82 (Index, p. 116).

274 The chief objections raised were that the new charter exempted the citizens from serving at musters outside the city, but it granted the City forfeitures for treason and estreated recognisances, the custody of Bethlem and a number of houses intended for the relief of the poor, etc.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1619-1623), p. 192.

275 Repertory 34, fo. 593; Letter Book GG, fo. 282; Cal. State Papers Dom. (1619-1623), pp. 177, 189, 192.

276 Journal House of Commons, i, 672, 752, 757.

M112 The City to press 2,000 men for service in the Palatinate, Oct., 1624.

277 Remembrancia, vi, 67.

278 Remembrancia, vi, 68; Journal 32, fo. 330.

279 Remembrancia, vi, 69.

280 Journal 33, fo. 7.

M113 Mansfeld’s expedition.

281 Chamberlain to Carleton, 9 Oct., 1624.—"Court and Times," ii, 476.

282 The same to the same, 8 Jan., 1625.—"Court and Times," ii, 490; Cal. State Papers Dom. (1623-1625), p. 441.

283 "There is a warrant for a new press here of 2,000 men, the moiety of the city and liberties, the other in the out-suburbs" (Letter to Rev. Joseph Mead, 28 Jan.).—"Court and Times," ii, 492. Letter from the lords of the council to the mayor, 19 Jan.—Remembrancia, viii, 69 (Index, p. 255).

284 Journal 33, fo. 23b.

M114 A city loan of £60,000 to King Charles, 1625.

285 Journal 33, fo. 85b.

286 Id., fo. 105.

287 Repertory 39, fo. 226b.

288 Journal 37, fos. 367-390b.

289 Repertory 39, fo. 243b.

290 Remembrancia, vi, 78 (Index, p. 194).

M115 Arrival of Henrietta Maria in London, June, 1625.

291 Journal 33, fo. 6.

292 Journal 33, fo. 129; Meddus to Mead, 17 June, 1625.—"Court and Times of Charles I," i, 29.

M116 The expedition to Cadiz, 1625.

293 Remembrancia (Index, p. 255); Chamberlain to Carleton, 14 May.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1624-1626).

294 Remembrancia, viii, 74 (Index, p. 255).

295 Remembrancia, vi, 108 (Index, pp. 251-252).

296 Journal 33, fo. 98b.

M117 The plague of 1625.

297 Journal 33, fo. 130b.

298 Dr. Donne to Sir Thomas Roe, 25 Nov., 1625.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1625-1626), p. 158.

299 Mead to Stuteville, 10 Sept., 1625.—"Court and Times," i, 46.

M118 The City called upon to furnish five ships for the defense of the river, Jan. 1626.

300 Journal 33, fo. 168b.

301 Repertory 40, fo. 38.

302 Journal 33, fos. 159, 162b.

303 Lords of the council to the mayor, 23 Jan., 1626.—Remembrancia, vi, 93 (Index, p. 248). The letter referred to a committee of three aldermen with instructions to obtain relief from so great a burden.—Repertory 40, fo. 78b.

304 The mayor and aldermen to the lords of the council, 13 Feb., 1626.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1625-1626), p. 254; _Cf._ Remembrancia, vi, 95 (Index, pp. 248-9, where the date of the letter is given as "_circa_ 1625").

M119 The parliament of 1626.

305 Journal 33, fo. 164. "Here be daily proclamations come forth; one strict enough against papists and recusants, if it may be duly executed; but it is thought to look forward to the parliament, which is to begin the 6th of February."—Chamberlain to Carleton, 19 Jan., 1626.—"Court and Times," i, 72.

306 Mead to Stuteville, 18 Feb.—"Court and Times," i, 81.

307 "Court and Times," i, 111-113.

M120 A demand for a city loan of £100,000 not complied with, Jan., 1626.

308 Remembrancia, vi, 89 (Index, p. 195); Repertory 40, fos. 266b, 272.

309 Repertory 40, fo. 278b. "London has lent the king £25,000 _sic_, scarce enough to buy a dozen points," wrote a contemporary. Cruse to Lady Carnsew (July?).—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1625-1626), p. 392.

310 Lords of the council to mayor and aldermen, 6 July.—Remembrancia, vi, 90 (Index, p. 195).

M121 A demand for 4,000 men and 20 ships, July-Aug., 1626

311 Journal 33, fos. 267b _seq._; Cal. State Papers Dom. (1625-1626), p. 376.

312 Journal 33, fos. 279b _seq._; Remembrancia, vi, 98 (Index, p. 249).

313 Mead to Stuteville, 24 July, 1626.—"Court and Times," i, 130.

314 Journal 33, fo. 280. Letter to Mead, 11 Aug.—"Court and Times," i, 136, 137.

315 Repertory 40, fo. 338b; Journal 33, fo. 280b, 282.

M122 The sum of £18,000 to be raised for fitting out the vessels.

316 Repertory 40, fos. 299b, 300b, 303b.

317 "Court and Times," i, 148, 149, 150, 153, 154; Repertory 40, fos. 400b, 407b; Journal 34, fos. 3b, 16b, 41, 56. As much as £6,000 was paid out of the chamber in respect of the fleet of twenty ships in the months of January and February, 1627.—Repertory 41, fos. 90b, 92, 104b, 133b.

M123 Unpopularity of the Duke of Buckingham.

318 Journal 33, fos. 304, 319; Journal 34, fo. 27; Remembrancia, vi, 96, 97 (Index, p. 249). Pory to Mead, 17 Aug., 1626.—"Court and Times," i, 141.

M124 The Forced Loan, 1626.

319 Letter to Mead, 6 Oct., 1626.—"Court and Times," i, 154. It was not until June, 1627, that pressure was brought to bear upon the citizens themselves to contribute. Beaulieu to Puckering, 20 June.—"Court and Times," i, 244.

320 Journal 33, fo. 318b.

M125 The loan declared illegal.

M126 Ten of the city’s ships to be victualled for a descent on Spain, Nov., 1626.

321 Journal 34, 19b.

322 Id., fo. 20b.

323 Id., fo. 21.

324 Pennington to Buckingham, 28 Dec, 1626.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1625-1626), p. 507.

M127 The City and the Forced Loan, 1627.

325 Remembrancia, vi, 105 (Index, p. 195).

326 Letter to Mead, 30 June, 1627.—"Court and Times," i, 249.

327 Beaulieu to Puckering, 7 Nov.; Letter to Mead, 16 Nov.—"Court and Times," i, 283, 285.

M128 The expedition to Rochelle, 1627.

328 Remembrancia, vi, 101, 102, 103 (Index, p. 250); Journal 34, fos. 88, 90b; Repertory 41, fos. 189b, 219b; Cal. State Papers Dom. (1627-1628), p. 238; Letter to Mead, 30 March, 1627.—"Court and Times," i, 209.

329 Journal 34, fo. 143b; Repertory 41, fo. 311b.

330 Journal 34, fo. 162b.

331 Gardiner, "Hist. of England (1624-1628)," ii, 163.

M129 The Royal Contract, 1627-1628.

332 In April, 1627, when the king’s proposal was first made known to the Common Council, the amount due to the citizens from Charles exceeded £200,000.—Journal 34, fo. 80b.

333 Journal 34, fos. 197b-201b.

334 Journal 34, fo. 196.

335 Remembrancia. vi, 144 (Index, p. 196); Cal. State Papers Dom. (1627-1628), p. 554.

336 This occurred to the master and wardens of the several companies of Plumbers, Sadlers, Founders, Joiners and Glaziers.—Repertory 42, fos. 58b, 60, 60b.

337 John Chamberlain, a member of the Drapers’ Company and alderman of Billingsgate, was fined £300, or double the amount he was originally called upon to contribute.—Repertory 42, fo. 55b; _Cf._ Mead to Stuteville, 19 Jan., 1628.—"Court and Times," i, 314.

338 Mead to Stuteville, 12 Jan., 1628.—"Court and Times," i, 311.

M130 £20,000 advanced by the aldermen, Feb., 1628.

339 Repertory 42, fos. 100b-101, 104.

M131 Buckingham and Dr. Lamb.

340 Mead to Stuteville, 21 June.—"Court and Times," i, 364, 365.

341 The same to the same, 29 June.—_Id._, 367, 368.

342 Remembrancia, vi, 150 (Index, p. 455); Letter printed by Rushworth (Hist. Coll., i, 618).

343 Repertory 42, fo. 213b.

344 Remembrancia, vi, 151 (Index, p. 455).

345 Journal 36, fos. 37, 50, 51, 173-175.

346 The placards are said to have run thus:—"Who rules the kingdom? The king. Who rules the king? The duke. Who rules the duke? The devil"—ending with threats of personal violence against the duke.—Mead to Stuteville, 29 June.—"Court and Times," i, 368.

347 Repertory 42, fo. 217b.

M132 Preparations for another expedition to Rochelle, 1628.

M133 The Duke of Buckingham assassinated 23 Aug., 1628.

348 Remembrancia, vi, 153 (Index, p. 197).

349 Journal 34, fos. 279-280b.

M134 Tonnange and Poundage, 1628.

M135 Dissolution of parliament 10 March, 1629.

350 Proclamation, dated 2 March.—Journal 35, fo. 44b.

M136 Sickness and famine, 1629-1631.

351 Journal 35, fos. 74, 112, 138, 270b.

352 Cal. State Papers Dom. (1629-1631), p. 387.

M137 The birth of Prince Charles, afterwards Charles II, 29 May, 1630.

353 Remembrancia, vii, 40 (Index, p. 419).

354 Journal 35, fo. 205.

355 The precise cost of the cup is given as £1,046 14_s._ 7_d._, and that of the velvet case as £6 13_s._ 4_d._ There were fees besides, paid by the City, comprising £20 to the queen’s midwife, £20 to the prince’s nurse, and a like sum to the prince’s _rockers_!—Repertory 44, fos. 366-366b.

356 Repertory 47, fo. 1.

M138 Loss of the queen’s plate and jewels, 1631.

357 Journal 35, fo. 349.

358 Chamberlain to Carleton, 14 June, 1623.—"Court and Times of James I," ii, 404.

359 Order of the Council, 12 Nov., 1634.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1634-1635), p. 288.

M139 City gifts to king and queen, May-June, 1633.

360 Repertory 47, fo. 226.

361 Id., fos. 273b, 287, 302b.

M140 Christening of the Duke of York, Nov., 1633.

362 Repertory 48, fo. 24.

363 Journal 36, fo. 185b.

M141 Demand for ship money, Oct., 1634.

M142 Search to be made for precedents, Nov., 1634.

364 Repertory 49, fo. 18.

365 Id., fo. 5b.

M143 Petition of Common Council against demand for ships, 2 Dec., 1634.

366 Journal 37, fos. 19-20; Rushworth, ii, 266.

M144 The City forced to submit.

367 Journal 37, fo. 21.

368 Id., fo. 18.

369 The king to the mayor, 19 Oct.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1634-1635), p. 241; Repertory 48, fo. 464.

370 Remembrancia, vii, 132 (Index, p. 467). According to Dr. Gardiner ("Hist. of England, 1628-1637," ii, 89), the mayor and the city lawyers were "reprimanded" and "intimidated" by the council, and a "stormy meeting" of the citizens took place, but nothing of this appears in the City’s Records.

371 Repertory 49, fos. 50b _seq._

372 Repertory 49, fos. 97b, 106b. The names of these ships were _The Samson_, _The Freeman_, _The Royal Exchange_, _The William and Thomas_, and _The Pleiades_.

M145 A fresh writ for ship money, 4 Aug., 1635.

373 Cal. State Papers Dom. (1634-1635), p. 531; _Cf._ Repertory 50, fo. 30.

374 Repertory 49, fo. 289.

375 Minutes by Nicholas, 29 Nov., 1635; Cal. State Papers Dom. (1635), p. 509.

M146 Richard Chambers and ship money, 1636.

376 The mayor, etc., to the lords of the council, 13 July, 1638.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1637-1638), p. 563. Rossingham to Conway, 16 June, 1640.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1640), p. 307. Gardiner, "Hist. of England (1637-1649)," i, 69.

M147 The City’s forfeiture of its Irish estate, 1635-1638.

377 In September (1635) the city presented a petition to the king at Hampton Court against the exaction of the fine.—Remembrancia, vii, 155 (Index, pp. 63-64).

378 Journal 37, fo. 202; Remembrancia, vii, 181 (Index, p. 64).

379 Journal 37, fos. 257-258.

380 Id., fos. 288 _seq._, 296b, 307b, 345.

381 Journal 38, fos. 199b, 204; Repertory, 53, fo. 104.

M148 Other grievances of the City.

382 Remembrancia, vii, 171 (Index, p. 421); Journal 37, fo. 121.

M149 Corporation of tradesmen, etc., created, 1636.

383 Remembrancia, vii, 178, 191 (Index, pp. 227-229); Journal 37, fo. 291; Journal 38, fo. 21b; Repertory 50, fos. 191b, 205b.

M150 A third writ for ship money, Oct., 1636.

384 It was laid down that when the good and safety of the kingdom in general were concerned, and the whole kingdom in danger, the king might by writ command all his subjects to furnish such ships as he should think fit.—Remembrancia, vii, 189 (Index, p. 468).

385 Journal 38, fo. 17; Repertory 52, fos. 19b, 83b.

386 Journal 38, fo. 174.

387 Repertory 53, fo. 81.

388 Journal 38, fo. 224b.

M151 Charter of Charles to the City, 18 Oct., 1638.

389 Journal 38, fo. 104.

390 The money was raised (or at least £8,000 of it) by the companies according to their corn assessment.—_Id._, fo. 163.

M152 Disorders in Scotland, 1639.

391 Remembrancia, viii, 216 (Index, p. 256); Journal 38, fos. 208b-209b, 215.

392 Id., fos. 229, 297.

M153 Demand for a loan of £100,000, June, 1639.

393 The king to the mayor and aldermen, 4 June, 1639.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1639), p. 276.

394 Gardiner, "Hist. of England (1637-1649)," i, 239, 240. No mention of this application for a loan appears in the City’s Records.

M154 The trained bands called out.

395 The king’s warrant, dated 18 Feb., 1639.—Journal 38, fo. 217; Remembrancia, viii, 220 (Index, p. 538).

396 Journal 38, fo. 224.

397 Order in Council for the reformation of defects and abuses in the trained bands, 13 Feb., 1639.—Remembrancia, viii, 221 (Index, p. 538).

398 Order in Council. His appointment by the king had been far from popular in the city, and considerable difficulty was experienced in finding his pay.—Remembrancia, viii, 210, 213, 222; Journal 38, fos. 212, 284; Journal 39, fo. 12b. Secretary Windebank to the mayor and aldermen, 10 March, 1636.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1635-1636), p. 286.

M155 The City’s free gift of £10,000, 31 July, 1639.

399 Journal 38, fo. 303.

400 Id., fos. 301-302b.

M156 The "short parliament," 1640.

M157 Attempt to force a city loan of £100,000, April-May, 1640.

401 Henry Montague, Earl of Manchester, who had been the City’s Recorder from 1603-1616.

402 Rossingham to Conway, 14th April, 1640.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1640), pp. 31-32.

M158 Four aldermen committed to prison, 1640.

403 Rushworth, State Trials, 586.

404 Rossingham to Conway, 12 May, 1640.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1640), p. 155.

M159 Impeachment of Sir Thomas Gardiner, Recorder, 1642.

405 Howell, State Trials, iv, 167-170.

M160 Riot at Lambeth, 11 May, 1640.

406 Remembrancia, viii, 229 (Index, p. 458); Journal 29, fos. 84b, 85.

M161 The aldermen released, 15 May, 1640.

M162 Collection of ship money in the city enforced, June, 1640.

407 The mayor had issued precepts to the aldermen for its collection on 28 Nov., 1639, and 3 Jan., 1640.—Journal 39, fos. 13, 24.

408 Rossingham to Viscount Conway, 16 June.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1640), pp. 306, 307.

M163 Demand for a city force of 4,000 men for service in the North, 11 June, 1640.

409 Journal 39, fo. 97.

410 Id., fo. 82b.

M164 Application to the Common Council for a loan of £200,000 renewed, 23 July, 1640.

411 "Hist. of England (1637-1649)," i, 396.

412 No minutes of a court having been held on that day are recorded in the City’s Journal.

M165 Application to the livery companies for £120,000, Aug., 1640.

413 Rossingham to Conway, 4 Aug., 1640.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1640), p. 554.

M166 A last effort to obtain a city loan of £200,000, Sept., 1640.

414 Charter (preserved at the Guildhall, Boxes 21 and 30).

415 Cal. State Papers Dom. (1640-1641), p. 94.

416 Journal 39, fos. 137, 137b; Remembrancia, viii, 233; Cal. State Papers Dom. (1640-1641), p. 101.

417 State Papers Dom., vol. cccclxix, No. 22 (Calendar, 1640-1641), pp. 133-134.

418 The king to the mayor, etc., 8 Oct.—Remembrancia, viii, 232 (Index, p. 256).

419 Notes by Sec. Windebank, 7 and 9 Oct.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1640-1641), pp. 146, 151.

M167 Edmund Wright elected mayor _loco_ Garway, 29 Sept., 1640.

420 Journal 39, fo. 138b.

421 Windebank to the king, 6 Oct., 1640.—Clarendon State Papers, ii, 128. See also Notes by Windebank, 30 Sept.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1640-1641), p. 115.

M168 The loan reduced to £50,000.

422 Vane to Windebank, 13 Oct.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1640-1641), p. 167.

423 Windebank to the king, 14 Oct.—Clarendon State Papers, ii, 129-131. Notes by Windebank.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1640-1641), p. 170.

M169 The Treaty of Ripon, 21 Oct., 1640.

M170 Meeting of the Long Parliament, 3 Nov., 1640.

M171 Speaker Lenthall.

424 Between 1631, the year of Finch’s death, and 1635, when Gardiner was elected Recorder, there had been three other Recorders, viz., Edward Littleton, Robert Mason and Henry Calthorp, not one of whom sat in parliament for the city.

M172 The City and the Earl of Strafford.

425 On the 3rd November the mayor issued his precept for steps to be taken to prevent further mischief.—Journal 39, fo. 143.

M173 Necessity of raising money, Nov., 1640.

426 Gardiner, "Hist. of England (1637-1649)," ii, 22, 23.

427 Journal House of Commons, 2 Dec., ii, 43; Repertory 55, fo. 21.

428 7 Jan., 1641.—Journal 39, fo. 162.

M174 Alleged Popish plot, Nov., 1640.

429 "Proclamation ordering Popish recusants to repair to their homes, and not to come to court or within ten miles of London without special licence, 11 Nov., 1640.—Journal 39, fo. 147.

M175 Impeachment of Archbishop Laud, Dec., 1640.

430 "Hist. of the Rebellion" (ed. 1839), pp. 85, 86.

431 Journal House of Commons, ii, 49.

M176 The Scottish commissioners in the city.

432 Clarendon, "Hist. of the Rebellion," p. 81.

M177 City loan of £60,000, Jan., 1641.

M178 Reprieve of Goodman, 22 Jan., 1641.

M179 Excitement in the city.

433 Journal House of Commons, ii, 71.

434 Journal 39, fo. 167.

435 "These sessions a priest was condemned at Newgate whom the king reprieved, whereupon the city absolutely refused to send in their moneys. The issue of it will be that in a day or two the man will be hanged and we shall have our money." Uvedale to Bradley, 25 Jan., 1641.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1637-1649), p. 432.

436 Journal 39, fo. 167b.

M180 Letters from Lenthall to the City touching the loan of £60,000, 6 and 19 Feb., 1641.

437 Journal 39, fo. 167.

438 Id., fo. 180.

439 "I think now we shall proceed clearly and speedily for moneys." Uvedale to Bradley, 16 Feb., 1641.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1640-1641), p. 462.

440 Journal House of Commons, ii, 88.

441 Repertory 55, fo. 86.

M181 Trial and execution of Strafford, March-May, 1641.

442 Journal 39, fo. 185b.

443 Journal House of Commons, ii, 118, 125.

444 Rushworth, iv, 233, 234.

M182 The City stops the loan until justice is executed on Strafford, May, 1641.

445 Uvedale to Bradley, 3 May.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1640-1641), p. 569. The day after Strafford’s execution the Court of Aldermen intimated their readiness to pay over £80,000, part of £120,000 promised by the City, to Sir William Uvedale and the Earl of Warwick.—Repertory 55, fo. 136.

M183 The "Protestation" accepted by the City, May, 1641.

446 Journal House of Commons, ii, 132.

447 Repertory 55, fo. 133.

448 Journal 39, fo. 203b; Journal 40, fo. 2b.

M184 Establishment of a poll tax for disbanding the armies, July, 1641.

449 "A proclamacon for the speedy payment of the moneys assessed by parlyament for disbanding the armies," 6 July, 1641.—Journal 39, fo. 213.

450 Journal 39, fo. 216.

M185 The "friendly assistance," July, 1641.

451 Journal House of Commons, ii, 78.

452 Journal 39, fo. 218. "The Scots are now put to a push, for the city within these two days, besides the poll money, have advanced £40,000 to send them away, and to disband both armies" (Wiseman to Pennington, 29 July, 1641). "This day London pays £40,000" (Bere to the same, 29 July).—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1641-1643), p. 62.

453 Wiseman to Sir John Pennington, 29 July.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1641-1643), p. 62; Journal House of Commons, ii, 229.

454 "The poll money comes in cheerfully and so fast in Guildhall that they want tellers to receive it" Smith to Pennington, 6 Aug.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1641-1643), p. 76.

M186 The queen mother in England.

455 Journal House of Commons, ii, 231.

456 Repertory 52, fo. 293; Journal 38, fos. 164, 164b.

457 Repertory 53, fo. 3b; Journal 38, fo. 173.

M187 The king sets out for Scotland, 10 Aug., 1641.

458 Journal House of Commons, ii, 246.

M188 Adjournment of the Houses, 8 Sept.

M189 A day of public thanksgiving, 7 Sept.

459 Journal 39, fos. 202, 229.

460 Journal 39, fo. 221b; Journal House of Commons, ii, 276.

M190 Judgment of Star Chamber _re_ the City’s Irish estate reversed, 26 Aug., 1641.

461 Journal 39, fos. 164-166b.

462 26 Aug.—Journal 40, fo. 6b; Journal House of Commons, ii, 272.

M191 Disbanded soldiers in the city, Sept.-Oct., 1641.

463 Journal 39, fo. 236.

464 Journal 39, fos. 237b, 238. Return of the mayor to the council touching the steps he had taken for ridding the city of loose and disorderly persons, sending home disbanded soldiers, and shutting up infected houses. 20 Oct.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1641-1643), p. 141.

M192 The Irish rebellion of 1641.

M193 The City asked for a loan of £50,000, 2 Nov., 1641.

465 Journal 39, 240.

466 Before the end of December nearly the whole amount had been paid to the order of the Commons.—Journal 39, fo. 262; Repertory 55, fos. 223, 230b, 231b, 333, 351, 351b.

M194 The City declares against the Catholic lords and the bishops, 12 Nov., 1641.

467 Journal House of Commons, ii, 314. As regards protections, the Common Council had drafted a petition to the House in the preceding May.—Journal 40, fo. 3.

M195 Charles entertained in the city, 25 Nov., 1641.

468 "Hist. of England (1637-1649)," ii, 316.

469 Repertory 55, fo. 227.

470 Journal 39, fo. 243b.

471 Journal 40, fo. 8. "Preparations for the king’s reception. He is to dine at Guildhall and be escorted thence by the city companies to Whitehall. I am glad we are thus dutiful; it makes the sectaries look about them, and the consideration of his majesty having the love of the able citizens will certainly conduce much to settle his affairs" Wiseman to Sir John Pennington, 18 Nov.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1641-1643), p. 168.

M196 The Recorder’s speech, 25 Nov.

472 Journal 39, fo. 245b.

473 "This day the city is busy receiving his majesty; all is very stately and well, but that I am told the present which was spoken of is wanting" Bere to John Pennington, 25 Nov.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1641-1643), p. 178. Again, "They say a great present is to be presented to the king after dinner" Slingsby to the same, 25 Nov.—_Ibid._, p. 180.

M197 The king’s reply.

474 Gardiner, "Hist. of England (1637-1649)," ii, 329.

475 "Recommendations submitted to Nicholas suggesting the substance of a speech to be delivered by the king on his public reception in the city of London on his return from Scotland."—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1641-1643), p. 177.

476 Journal 40, fos. 9, 9b.

M198 Honours for the Mayor, Sheriffs and five aldermen.

477 The Recorder signified the fact to the Common Council on the 30 Nov.—Journal 40, fo. 9.

478 Maitland (i, 345, 346) gives their names:—Cordell (Queenhithe), Soame (Cheap), Gayer (Aldgate), Gerrard (Candlewick), and Wollaston (Farringdon Without). Both the sheriffs happened to be aldermen, viz., George Garrett of Castle Baynard and George Clarke of Bridge Ward.

M199 Measures prepared for restoration of Irish estate, 30 Nov., 1641.

M200 A London mob at Westminster, Nov., 1641.

479 Journal 39, fo. 253b.

M201 The character of the mob.

480 Wiseman to Pennington, 9 Dec.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1641-1643), p. 192.

M202 Petition to the House, 11 Dec., 1641.

481 Slingsby to Pennington, 16 Dec., 1641.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1641-1643), p. 202.

482 Maitland, i, 349-350.

483 Journal House of Commons, ii, 350.

M203 The new Common Council, 21 Oct., 1641.

484 The returns of elections to the Common Council are not entered on the City’s Records. Considerable irregularities appear to have been practised at this election.—Journal 40, fos. 21-22b.

M204 Fresh riot at Westminster, 27 Dec., 1641.

M205 The trained bands called out, 28 Dec.

485 Bere to Pennington, 30 Dec., 1641.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1641-1643), p. 216.

486 Slingsby to Pennington, 30 Dec.—_Ibid._, p. 217.

487 This appears in a marginal note by Nicolas to a letter from the king to the mayor, 28 Dec.—_Ibid._, p. 214.

488 D’Ewes’s Diary, Harl. MS, clxii, fo. 287b, cited by Dr. Gardiner, "Hist. of England (1637-1649)," ii, 371.

489 31 Dec.—Journal 40, fo. 10 (printed in Rushworth’s "Historical Collections," iv, 469).

M206 A guard for parliament refused by the king, 3 Jan., 1642.

490 Rushworth, iv, 471.

491 Minutes Common Council, 4 Jan., 1642 (expunged in 1683).—Journal 40, fo. 11.

M207 The arrest of the five members demanded, 3 Jan., 1642.

492 Journal House of Commons, ii, 367.

493 Warrant from the king to the mayor, 3 Jan.—_Ibid._, p. 235.

494 Latche to Nicholas, 4 Jan.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1641-1643), p. 237.

M208 Meeting of the Commons, 4 Jan.

495 Warrant of the king to the mayor, 4 Jan.—_Ibid._, p. 237.

M209 The king at the Guildhall, 5 Jan., 1642.

496 Slingsby to Pennington, 6 Jan.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1641-1643), pp. 242-243; _Cf._ "The arrest of the five members," by John Foster, pp. 258-263.

M210 The City’s petition to the king, 5 Jan., 1642.

497 Journal 40, fo. 12. Printed in Rushworth’s Collections, iv. 480. The date is there given as 7 Jan.

M211 The Common Council vote £2,000 for the defence of the city.

M212 Panic in the city, 6 Jan., 1642.

498 Precepts by the mayor, 4 Jan., 1642.—Journal 39, fos. 263b, 264.

499 Journal 39, fo. 264b.

500 The council to the lord mayor, 8 Jan., 1642.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1641-1643), p. 249.

501 Journal 40, fo. 14b; Cal. State Papers Dom. (1641-1643), pp. 247, 248.

M213 The king’s reply to the City’s petition. 8 Jan., 1642.

502 Journal 40, fo. 13; printed in Rushworth’s Collections, iv, 481. "A fierce reply."—Gardiner.

M214 Skippon to command the city’s forces, 10 Jan.

503 Journal 40, fo. 15.

504 Journal 40, fo. 16; Precept, 21 Jan.—Journal 39, fo. 273b.

505 Journal 40, fo. 16b.

506 Id. _ibid._

507 Journal 39, fo. 274b.

M215 Charles quits London, 10 Jan., 1642.

508 Journal House of Commons, ii, 370. Bere to Pennington, 13th January.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1641-1643), p. 252; Rushworth, pt. iii, i, 484; Clarendon (ed. 1839), p. 162.

M216 The Tower held for the king.

509 Byron to Nicholas, 22-28 Jan.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1641-1643), pp. 265-269.

M217 A loan of £100,000 demanded of the City for the Irish war, 22 Jan., 1642.

510 Journal 40, fos. 17, 17b.

M218 The City’s reply, 24 Jan., 1642.

511 Id., fos. 18-19b.

M219 Money raised by promise of confiscated lands.

512 Journal House of Commons, ii, 425. According to Dr. Gardiner ("Hist. of England, 1637-1649," ii, 433), this "monstrous scheme of confiscation" was suggested by "some London citizens," who represented that there were 10,000,000 acres in Ireland liable to confiscation, and that there would be no difficulty in raising £1,000,000 if a quarter of these lands, or 2,500,000 acres, were assigned to subscribers.

513 Precept to the Aldermen, 22 Feb.—Journal 39, fo. 281.

514 March.—Journal 39, fo. 282b; Journal 40, fo. 21. It appears from an order of the Lords and Commons, 18 March (Cal. State Papers Dom. 1641-1643, pp. 298-299), that the contribution by the companies was allowed to be devoted more especially to the relief of Londonderry.

515 Journal 39, fo. 285.

516 Id., fo. 287.

M220 The militia ordinance, 31 Jan., 1642.

517 Journal House of Commons, ii. 406.

518 Journal 40, fo. 25.

M221 The Common Council uphold the ordinance, 17 March, 1642.

519 Id., fos. 27-28b.

520 This concession was made by order of the committee of parliament sitting at Grocers’ Hall, 19 Jan.—Journal 40, fo. 17b.

M222 Commissioners for the city’s militia, 4 April.

521 Journal 40, fo. 30.

522 Journal 39, fos. 295b, 304.

523 Journal 40, fos. 30, 31.

524 Id., fos. 30b, 31.

M223 A muster in Finsbury Fields before both Houses of Parliament, 10 May, 1642.

525 Clarendon (ed. 1839), p. 227; Journal 39, fo. 306b.

M224 The City receives the thanks of both Houses, 16 May.

526 Journal 39, fos. 306b, 309; Journal 40, fo. 32.

M225 Skippon to ignore the king’s order to go to York, 17 May.

527 Journal House of Commons, ii, 575.

M226 Loan of £100,000 by the companies, June, 1642.

528 Journal House of Commons, ii, 605-606.

529 Journal 39, fo. 314.

530 Clode, "London during the Great Rebellion," pp. 19-21.

M227 Parliamentary order for bringing in of money, plate, etc., 10 June.

M228 The king’s protest, 14 June.

531 "Hist. of the Rebellion" (Oxford ed. 1839), p. 278.

532 The king to the mayor, etc., of London, 14 June.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1641-1643), p. 339.

533 Journal 39, fos. 319, 325, 328.

M229 Pennington elected mayor _loco_ Gurney, discharged, 16 Aug., 1642.

M230 Charles sets up his standard at Nottingham, 22 Aug., 1642.

534 Journal House of Lords, v. 284, 285.

535 Journal 39, fo. 329.

536 Journal House of Lords, v, 297, 298.

M231 The City requisitioned for arms, 25 Aug., 1642.

537 Journal 40, fo. 35.

538 Journal 39, fos. 332b, 339.

M232 Additional forces for the City, Sept., 1642.

539 Journal 40, fos. 35b-37.

M233 The Committee of Militia of the city.

540 Id., fo. 37b.

M234 Other measures taken for the defence of the city.

541 Id., fos. 37b, 38.

542 Journal 39, fo. 331b.

M235 Essex puts himself at the head of the parliamentary forces, 9 Sept., 1642.

543 Gardiner, "Hist. Great Civil War," i, 25.

544 Wharton to George Willingham, merchant, at the Golden Anchor, St. Swithin’s Lane, 7 Sept.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1641-1643), pp. 385, 386.

M236 Desires a loan of £100,000, 13 Sept.

545 Journal 40, fo. 38.

546 Journal 40, fo. 38b; Journal 39, fo. 342b.

M237 The trained bands prepare to take the field, 18 Oct.

547 Journal 40, fo. 40b; Letter Book QQ, fo. 51b.

548 28 Oct.—Journal 39, fo. 364b.

M238 The whole city "either real or constrained Roundheads."

549 Nehemiah Wharton to George Willingham, 26th September.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1641-1643), p. 391.

550 Cal. State Papers Dom. (1641-1643), p. 403.

M239 Pennington re-elected Mayor, 29 Sept., 1642.

551 Journal 39, fo. 366.

552 Journal House of Lords, v, 404.

M240 The battle of Edge-hill. 23 Oct., 1642.

553 "Eight speeches spoken in Guildhall upon Thursday night. 27 Oct., 1642" (printed at the Sign of the Globe, near the Royal Exchange. 1642).—Guildhall Library, A, vi, 6.

M241 The City raises 4,000 horse.

554 Journal House of Commons, ii, 847.

555 15 Nov.—Journal House of Lords, v, 446; Journal House of Commons, ii, 851.

556 Journal 40, fo. 41b.

M242 Charles leaves Brentford for Reading.

557 Common Hall Book, i, fos. 1b, 3.

M243 The Houses resolve to levy a tax, 25 Nov., 1642.

558 Journal House of Lords, v, 462, 463. This ordinance is often referred to as the ordinance of the 29th November, it having been amended on that day.—Journal House of Commons, ii, 869.

M244 A city loan of £30,000.

559 Journal House of Commons, ii, 863; Common Hall Book, No. 1, fo. 10.

M245 Petitions to Common Council advocating a peace, 12 Dec., 1642.

560 Order against wearing ribbons and other badges in hats, etc., 12 (17?) Dec.—Journal 40, fo. 44; Letter Book QQ, fo. 56.

561 Journal 40, fo. 43.

562 Journal 40, fos. 43b, 44.

M246 The City’s petitions submitted to both Houses, 19 Dec.

563 Id., fos. 44b, 45.

564 Journal House of Commons, ii, 894.

565 Id., ii, 903.

M247 The City’s petition to the king at Oxford, 2 Jan., 1643.

M248 The king’s reply read at a Common Hall, 13 Jan., 1643.

566 Journal 40, fo. 45b.

567 Journal 40, fo. 46. The account is printed _verbatim_ in the Journal of the House of Lords, v, 548, 549.

568 Journal 40, fo. 46b.

569 Journal 40, fo. 47; Journal House of Commons, ii, 921.

570 Gardiner, "Hist. Great Civil War," i, 95, 96. The proceedings are not entered in the Common Hall Book.

M249 His terms rejected by the City.

571 Journal House of Commons, ii, 927.

572 Journal House of Commons, ii, 941.

M250 Speech of Alderman Garway in Common Hall, 17 Jan., 1643.

573 See Garway’s speech bound up with "Eight Speeches.... 27 Oct., 1642" (Guildhall Library); _Cf._ Cal. State Papers Dom. (1641-1643). pp. 438, 439.

M251 Alderman Whitmore and the parliamentary tax, 20 Jan.

574 He was the owner of Balmes House and an estate at Hoxton, not far from the Kingsland Road, and had already once suffered imprisonment for the royal cause. Particulars of his staunch adhesion to Charles, of his liberality and his family are given in Remembrancia (Index), p. 296, note.

575 Journal House of Commons, ii, 935.

M252 A fresh loan of £60,000 by the City, 18 Feb., 1643.

576 Id., ii, 971.

577 Journal 40, fos. 47b, 48.

M253 The City’s weekly assessment.

578 Journal 40, fos. 48-50; Journal House of Commons, ii, 972.

M254 The propositions of parliament presented to the king, 1 Feb., 1643.

M255 Fresh proposals to parliament by the City.

579 Journal House of Commons, ii, 976; Journal 40, fos. 50b, 51.

M256 Scheme for the fortification of the city and suburbs, 23 Feb.

580 Journal 40, fo. 52. "A plan of the city and suburbs of London, as fortified by order of parliament in the years 1642 and 1643," is engraved in Maitland’s History, i, 368-369. The remains of some of the earthworks and masonry erected during the civil war might have recently been seen in the neighbourhood of Hackney. The name of Castle Street is said to commemorate a rampart at Southampton House, in Holborn, whilst Mount Street is believed to take its name from a large earthwork known as "Oliver’s Mount."—Loftie, "Hist. of London," i, 345.

581 Journal House of Commons, ii, 993.

582 Journal 40, fos. 56, 59, 59b, 61, 65, 66b.

M257 An extra monthly allowance of £3,000 to the City for purposes of defence, 1 March, 1643.

583 Journal 40, fo. 54; Journal House of Commons, ii, 985.

M258 News of Prince Rupert threatening Bristol, 10 March.

M259 The City’s answer to a request for men and money.

584 Journal 40, fo. 54b.

585 Pym’s report to the Commons, 11 March.—Journal House of Commons, ii, 999.

M260 Volunteer foot and horsemen for the city, March, 1643.

586 Repertory 56, fo. 72b-73

587 Journal 40, fo. 55b.

M261 A further loan of £40,000, 6 April.

588 6 April.—Journal 40, fo. 56b. 5 April.—Journal House of Commons, iii, 31.

M262 Ordnance and arms for defence of the city.

589 5 April.—Journal House of Commons, iii, 30.

590 27 April.—Journal 40, fo. 58b.

M263 Failure of negotiations followed by Puritan outrages, May, 1643.

591 Journal House of Commons, iii, 45.

592 Journal 40, fo. 58b.

593 Maitland, i, 266.

594 Id., i, 371.

595 26 May.—Journal House of Commons, iii, 165.

M264 The discovery of "Waller’s Plot."

596 Howell’s State Trials, iv, 628-630.

597 Clarendon (ed. 1839), 415-419; Rushworth, v, 325, 326, 330.

M265 Day of thanksgiving, 15 June, 1643.

598 Journal House of Commons, iii, 117, 122.

M266 Royalist successes, June-July, 1643.

M267 Scarcity of coal in London.

M268 Newcastle to be reduced if possible, May, 1643.

599 Maitland, i, 362, 371.

600 News letter from York, 17 June, 1642.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1641-1643), p. 342.

601 Journal 40, fo. 60.

602 Id., fo. 61.

603 Journal House of Commons, iii, 104, 105.

604 Journal 40, fo. 63.

M269 Royalist cavalry in the neighbourhood of London, July, 1643.

605 Id., fo. 68.

M270 Dissensions in the city touching the militia.

M271 Waller appointed commander-in-chief of the city’s forces, 29 July, 1643.

606 7 and 10 June, 1643.—Journal 40, fos. 62b _seq._

607 Journal 40, fo. 67b.

608 Journal House of Commons, iii, 187.

M272 The Common Council stands by Essex, 1 Aug.

609 Journal 40, fo. 69.

M273 The Lords renew propositions for peace.

M274 Opposition of the City, 6 Aug., 1643.

610 Journal 40, fo. 69b. The petition is printed in Rushworth’s Collections, v, 36.

611 Journal House of Commons, iii, 197.

M275 Riots at Westminster, 8 and 9 Aug.

612 Rushworth, Historical Collections, v, 357.

M276 1,000 horse to be raised in the city for Waller, 11 Aug., 1643.

613 Journal House of Lords, vi, 172.

614 Journal 40, fo. 71; Cal. State Papers Dom. (1641-1643), p. 476.

M277 Gloucester summoned to surrender by the king, 10 Aug., 1643.

615 Rushworth, v, 286.

M278 £50,000 to be raised in the city, 11 Aug.

616 Journal 40, fos. 70-70b, 71b-72b; Journal House of Commons, iii, 209, 217; Journal House of Lords, vi, 190. The Common Council had previously (1 Aug.) resolved to raise a like sum from the inhabitants within the city and "the command of the forts or lines of communication."—Journal 40, fo. 69.

617 Clode, "London during the Great Rebellion," pp. 26, 27.

M279 The City’s force sent to the relief of Gloucester, 21 Aug., 1643.

618 Rushworth, v, 291, 292.

M280 Essex and the Londoners relieve Gloucester, 5 Sept.

619 "A true and exact Relation of the Marchings of the Two Regiments of the Trained Bands of the city of London ... By Henry Foster, quondam sergeant to Captain George Mosse, Oct. 2, 1643" (British Museum (E. 69)/15* Cited in Raikes’s "Hist. Hon. Artillery Company," i, 113-128).

620 Green, "Hist. Engl. People," iii, 226.

M281 Courage displayed by the trained bands at Newbury, 20 Sept., 1643.

621 Clarendon (ed. 1839), p. 458.

M282 Trained bands again called out for the recovery of Reading, 9 Oct., 1643.

622 Journal 40, fo. 78b.

623 Gardiner, "Hist. Great Civil War," i, 285.

M283 Disaffection among the trained bands.

624 Journal House of Commons, iii, 323.

625 Journal 40, fo. 81.

M284 Discovery of Brooke’s plot, 6 Jan., 1644.

626 Journal House of Commons, iii, 358.

627 Journal 40, fos. 82b, 84.

M285 Banquet to both Houses at Merchant Taylors’ Hall, 18 Jan., 1644.

628 Id., fos. 84b-86.

629 Whitelock’s Memorials (ed. 1732), p. 80; "A Perfect Diurnal" (Guildhall Library), No. 26, p. 265.

M286 The Committee of Both Kingdoms, 16 Feb.

M287 A weekly meal sacrificed for payment of city troops. Jan., 1644.

630 Journal 40, fo. 81b.

631 Journal 40, fos. 83b, 86b, 88b, 89, 89b, 90, 90b, 93; Journal House of Commons, iii, 380, 384, 388, 409.

M288 Petition for reforms in the army, 26 Jan.

632 Journal 40, fo. 88; Journal House of Commons, iii, 380.

M289 Waller’s victory at Cheriton, 29 March.

633 Journal 40, fos. 91b, 92.

634 Rushworth, v, 655.

M290 Speeches at a Common Hall, 9 April, 1644.

635 Id., v, 658-662.

M291 Six regiments of auxiliaries to attend the rendezvous at Aylesbury.

636 Journal 40, fo. 92b; Letter Book QQ, fo. 108.

M292 Three regiments ready to march, 2 May.

637 Journal 40, fo. 94b; Letter Book QQ, fo. 112b.

M293 Propositions for a peace, April-May, 1644.

M294 The City consulted, 6 May, 1644

638 Journal House of Commons, iii, 472, 477.

639 Journal 40, fo. 95b.

M295 Suspected persons from Oxford to be expelled from the city, 15 May.

640 Gardiner, i, 353.

641 Journal 40, fo. 97; Journal House of Commons, iii, 493. Towards the close of the year the influx from Oxford became so dangerous that it became necessary for the mayor to issue a precept (17 Dec.) for special precautions to be taken against danger arising from ill-affected persons.—Common Hall Book No. 1, fo. 223b.

M296 Disputes as to re-appointment of Committee of Both Kingdoms.

M297 The City’s petition for re-appointment of the committee, 16 May, 1644.

642 Journal 40, fo. 97b; Rushworth, v, 710.

M298 The answer of the Commons to the City’s petition, 18 May.

643 Journal 40, fo. 98; Rushworth, v, 711.

M299 The old Committee of Both Kingdoms resume work, 24 May.

644 Journal House of Commons, iii, 498, 500, 501, 503-505.

M300 Request for a city loan of £200,000 or £300,000, 28 May, 1644.

645 Journal House of Commons, iii, 508-509.

646 Journal 40, fo. 99; Journal House of Commons, iii, 509; Whitelocke’s Memorials (ed. 1732), pp. 88-89.

M301 Major-General Browne and the siege of Greenland House, June, 1644.

647 Journal 40, fo. 99b.

648 Richard Browne, variously described as Woodmonger and Coal-merchant, alderman of Langborn Ward; Sheriff 1648. His military duties interfered so much with his municipal that he was soon discharged from serving as alderman.—Common Hall Book No. 2, fo. 175b; Repertory 59, fo. 242; Repertory 60, fo. 29b.

M302 News of Charles having fled from Oxford, 7 June, 1644.

649 Journal 40, fo. 100.

650 Id., fo. 100b.

M303 Disaffection among the trained bands, July, 1644.

651 Extract from Committee Letter Book, cited by Dr. Gardiner, "Hist. Great Civil War," i, 453-454.

652 Extract from Committee Letter Book, cited by Dr. Gardiner, "Hist. Great Civil War," i, 455.

653 ._Id. ibid._, i, 456.

M304 City’s petition to parliament for payment of debts out of estates of delinquents, 2 Aug., 1644.

654 Journal 40, fos. 103-103b.

655 Journal 40, fos. 101, 102, 102b, 105.

M305 Ordinance for a standing army, 12 July, 1644.

656 Journal House of Commons, iii, 559; Journal House of Lords, vi, 629, 630.

657 Journal 40, fos. 103b.

M306 The City’s propositions laid before the House, 21 Aug., 1644.

M307 The number of propositions ordered to be reduced, 25 Oct.

658 Journal 40, fos. 104, 108-110; Journal House of Commons, iii, 602.

659 Journal House of Commons, iii, 667, 669, 675, 677.

M308 The propositions reduced to six, 26 Oct., 1644.

660 Journal 40, fo. 115; Journal House of Commons, iii, 679, 680.

M309 Surrender of the parliamentary forces in the west, 2 Sept.

661 Journal 40, fo. 106.

M310 Fresh forces required to prevent Charles returning to Oxford, Sept., 1644.

662 Journal 40, fos. 106b, 107, 107b.

663 Journal 40, fo. 111. To assist the City at this juncture parliament allowed them £10,000, a sum which Waller, the poet, who had now been in prison for more than a year, was content to pay for the recovery of his freedom.—_Id._, fo. 107; Journal House of Commons, iii, 639.

M311 The second battle of Newbury, 27 Oct.

M312 Surrender of Newcastle, 19 Oct., 1644.

664 Journal 40, fo. 102; Journal House of Commons, iii, 534, 564.

665 Journal 40, fo. 117.

666 Journal 40, fos. 117b, 118; "A Perfect Diurnal," No. 70, for the week ending 2nd December, 1644, p. 558; _Id._, No. 71, p. 566.

M313 The trade and commerce of the city ruined by the war.

667 See schedule of "Reasons against free trade to or from any ports of his majesty’s dominions that are or shalbe in hostility against the king and parliament," October, 1644.—Journal 40, fos. 113-114.

668 Journal 40, fos. 119-122b.

M314 The treaty of Uxbridge, 31 Jan.-22 Feb., 1645.

M315 The New Model Army, 15 Feb., 1645.

M316 The City advances £80,000, 4 March, 1645.

669 Journal 40, fo. 125.

M317 The self-denying ordinance, 3 April, 1645.

670 Journal House of Lords, vii, 302.

671 Journal 40, fo. 126.

M318 Military activity in the city, April, 1645.

672 Id., fos. 125b, 128.

M319 The siege of Oxford, 22 May, 1645.

673 Journal 40, fo. 128b.

674 Letter Book QQ, fo. 158b. The minutes of this court are not recorded in the Journal, there being two folios missing.

M320 Massey to quit Gloucester and take command in the west, 24 May.

675 The committee of both kingdoms to Massey, 24 May.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1644-1645), p. 519. On the 10 June the committee again wrote, bidding him hasten with all possible diligence and speed to the relief of Taunton.—_Id._, p. 585.

676 Journal 40, fos. 132, 133.

677 Journal 40, fos. 132b, 133. The Committee of Both Kingdoms to the Earl of Warwick and the committee of Essex, 15th June.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1644-1645), p. 595.

M321 City’s petition to parliament, 4 June, 1645.

678 Journal 40, fo. 131.

679 Journal House of Commons, iv, 163. Six weeks later Alderman Fowke was committed to Fleet Prison by the committee for accompts of the kingdom, presumably on a charge of malversation. He appears to have remained in confinement until the following October, and then to have regained his liberty only by the Common Council interesting itself with parliament on his behalf.—Journal 40, fos. 137, 146b.

M322 Cromwell appointed lieutenant-general, 10 June, 1645.

680 Journal House of Commons, iv, 169, 170; Journal House of Lords, vii, 421.

M323 The battle of Naseby, 14 June, 1645.

681 "A list of the particulars of what was lost on both sides in the great battle on Dreadfull Downe, neere Naisby. June 14. 1644 (_sic_)," is set out in "Perfect Occurrences of Parliament" for week ending 20 June, 1645.

M324 Thanksgiving in the city for the victory at Naseby, 19 June.

682 Journal 40, fo. 134.

M325 The city advances £31,000 for payment of the Scottish army, 14 June.

683 Journal 40, fos. 133b, 134. The committee of both kingdoms to the Earl of Leven, 14 June, 1645.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1644-1645), p. 592.

M326 Cavalry raised by the City for the parliamentary arms, July-Sept., 1645.

684 Journal 40, fo. 137; Journal House of Commons, iv, 211.

685 Journal 40, fos. 143, 143b.

M327 Plymouth appeals to London, 5 Sept.

686 Journal 40, fos. 144b, 145.

M328 Accommodation in the city for royalist prisoners.

687 Id., fo. 141.

688 Journal 40, fos. 146, 148.

M329 The Presbyterians and Independents.

M330 The Presbyterians and the Scottish army.

689 Journal House of Commons, 6 Oct., iv, 298.

690 Journal 40, fo. 146.

691 Journal House of Commons, iv, 305.

M331 Presbyterianism in the city, 1645.

692 Whitelock, p. 136.

693 Journal 40, fo. 148.

694 Journal 40, fo. 153b; Journal House of Lords, vii, 717.

695 Journal 40, fo. 151b-153; Journal House of Lords, vii, 714-717.

696 Journal 40, fo. 154b; Journal House of Commons, iv, 348.

697 Journal 40, fo. 154b.

M332 City loan of £6,000 for siege of Chester, 12 Nov., 1645.

698 Journal 40, fos. 150-151.

M333 Parliament and the Scottish army.

699 Id., fo. 156.

M334 The king’s proposal to come to Westminster, 26-29 Dec., 1645.

M335 Answer of the House, 13 Jan., 1646.

700 Letter from the king at Oxford to the Speaker of the House of Peers, _pro tempore_, 26 Dec., 1645.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1645-1647), pp. 278-280.

701 The same to the same, 29 Dec.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1645-1647), p. 282; Journal House of Lords, viii, 73-74.

702 Journal 40, fo. 159b.

703 The Speakers of both Houses of Parliament to the king, 13 Jan., 1646.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1645-1647), p. 306.

M336 Day of humiliation in the city, 14 Jan., 1646.

704 Journal 40, fos. 160, 166b, 174.

M337 The king’s offers to parliament on religion, 15 Jan.

705 The king to the Speaker of the House of Lords, 15 Jan.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1645-1647), p. 311; Journal House of Lords, viii, 103.

M338 The City’s petition against toleration, 15 Jan.

706 Journal 40, fo. 160b; Journal House of Lords, viii, 105.

707 Journal 40, fo. 166; Journal House of Commons, iv, 407.

708 Journal 40, fo. 166b; Journal House of Lords, viii, 104.

M339 The Scottish commissioners attend a Common Council, 11 Feb., 1646.

709 Letter dated 27 Jan.—Journal 40, fo. 170.

M340 Parliament desires to know particulars of the interview.

M341 Francis Allen’s account of the interview.

710 Journal 40, fos. 170b, 171; Journal House of Commons, iv, 437, 439.

M342 The City’s version of the matter.

711 Journal 40, fos. 171-173.

M343 Resolution of the House. 21 Feb., 1646.

712 Journal House of Commons, iv, 449.

M344 Allen elected alderman of Farringdon Without, 1649.

713 Repertory 60, fo. 28b; Journal House of Commons, vi, 329; Journal 41, fo. 15b.

M345 The City’s claim to govern the militia of the suburbs, 1646.

714 It had been one of the twenty-eight propositions (afterwards reduced to six) made to parliament in that month.

715 Journal 40, fos. 156, 156b.

716 Id., fos. 157b, 158, 159.

717 Journal 40, fo. 161b.

718 Journal House of Commons, iv, 420.

719 Journal 40, fos. 162b, 163b-165b.

M346 The City’s petition to parliament, 6 Feb., 1646.

720 Id., fos. 167b-169.

721 Journal House of Commons, iv, 441.

722 Journal House of Commons, iv, 474.

M347 Ordinance establishing Presbyterianism, March, 1646.

723 5 March, 1646.—Journal House of Commons, iv, 463.

724 Journal 40, fos. 173b, 174b.

725 Id., fos. 174, 174b.

726 19 March, 1646.—Journal House of Commons, iv, 479.

M348 Public thanksgiving in the city for defeat of royalists, 2 April.

M349 Entertainment at Grocers’ Hall.

727 Rushworth, vi, 141.

728 Journal 40, fo. 175b.

M350 Letter of Charles to the City, 19 May.

M351 The City’s remonstrance to parliament, 26 May.

729 Journal 40, fo. 183; Rushworth, vi, 275; Journal House of Lords, viii, 334.

730 Journal House of Commons, iv, 555.

731 Journal 40, fo. 183b; Journal House of Lords, viii, 334.

732 Journal 40, fos. 183b-184b; Rushworth, vi, 307.

M352 Disaffected citizens and the remonstrance.

733 Journal House of Commons, iv, 561; Whitacre’s Diary, Add. MSS, 31,116, fo. 272, cited by Dr. Gardiner, "Hist. Great Civil War," ii, 489.

M353 The City’s reply to the king’s letter, 3 July, 1646.

734 Journal 40, fo. 187.

M354 The leave of parliament asked before despatching the City’s answer, 4 July, 1646.

735 Journal House of Lords, viii, 411; Journal 40, fo. 188.

736 Journal House of Commons, iv, 602.

M355 The Commons refuse leave, 11 July.

737 Journal 40, fo. 189; Journal House of Commons, iv, 615.

738 Journal House of Commons, iv, 616.

M356 The king’s answer to the propositions for peace, 12 Aug., 1646.

739 Journal House of Lords, viii, 423, 433.

740 Id., viii, 460.

M357 A loan of £200,000 to be raised to get rid of the Scottish army, Sept., 1646.

741 Journal House of Lords, viii, 461.

742 Journal House of Lords, viii, 487; Journal House of Commons, iv, 644, 649, 654-656, 659.

743 Journal 40, fos. 191, 191b, 192; Rushworth, vi, 326.

M358 City petitions to both Houses for redress of grievances, 19 Dec., 1646.

744 Journal 40, fo. 199.

745 Id., fos. 199b-203b.

746 Id., fo. 204.

M359 City petitions for disbandment of army, 17 Mar., 1647.

747 Journal House of Commons, v, 115.

748 Journal 40, fos. 207-210b

M360 Dispute between the Presbyterians in parliament and the army, March, 1647.

749 Journal House of Commons, v, 130.

750 Declaration of both Houses against the petition, 30 March.—Journal House of Lords, ix, 115.

M361 A city loan of £200,000, April, 1647.

751 Journal 40, fo. 212.

752 Journal House of Commons, v, 145.

753 Journal 40, fo 214. The scheme is printed at length in Journal House of Commons, v, 146, 147.

754 Journal 40, fos. 216-217 _et seq._; Journal House of Commons, v, 148, 153, 159, 163; Journal House of Lords, ix, 163, 165.

M362 Nomination of the new militia committee, 27 April, 1647.

755 Journal 40, fos. 215, 215b; Journal House of Lords, ix, 175.

756 Journal 40, fo. 217(a)b; Journal House of Commons, v, 188.

M363 Parliament beset by disbanded soldiers, 7 June, 1647.

M364 City petition to parliament, 8 June.

757 Journal 40, fos. 218b, 219; Journal House of Commons, v, 202, 203; Rushworth, vi, 546, 552.

M365 Letter from the army to the city, 11 June, 1647.

758 Journal 40, fos. 219-220; Journal House of Commons, v, 208; Rushworth, vi, 554.

M366 A new Committee of Safety, 11 June, 1647.

759 Journal House of Commons, v, 207; Journal House of Lords, ix, 255.

M367 The City’s answer to the letter from the army, 12 June, 1647.

760 Journal 40, fo. 221; Rushworth, vi, 557.

M368 Answer from Fairfax and his council of war at St. Albans, 15 June, 1647.

761 Journal 40, fos. 222, 222b.

_ M369 The Declaration of the Army_ and the _Charge_ against eleven members of the House, 15 and 16 June.

762 The commissioners to Manchester, 15 June, 1647.—Journal House of Lords, ix, 269.

M370 Ineffectual attempt to call out the trained bands, 12 June.

763 News letter from London, 13 June.—Clarke Papers (Camd. Soc., New Series, No. 49), i, 133. This attitude of the trained bands was a serious affair, and called for a public declaration to be made for the encouragement of citizens to respond to the call to arms for the safety of parliament and the city.—Journal 40, fo. 224.

764 Journal 40, fos. 223, 223b.

M371 Letter from the City to Fairfax and the council of war, 18 June, 1647.

765 Journal 40, fo. 224b. The original reply not meeting with the approval of the House, another was submitted on the following day, and at last the City was allowed to send such answers as it thought fit.—Journal House of Commons, v, 216, 217; Rushworth, vi, 577.

766 Journal 40, fos. 224-225b.

M372 Reply of Fairfax and council of war, 21 and 22 June, 1647.

767 Id., fos. 225b, 226.

M373 Commissioners from the city to remain at headquarters, 24 and 25 June.

768 Only the commencement of the letter is set out in the city’s Journal (No. 40, 226b). In the margin is the following note:—"This letter I could not get from the committee."

769 Journal 40, fos. 227, 228. On the 25th the number of commissioners was increased to twelve, and a schedule of instructions drawn up for their use.—_Id._, fos. 229-230.

M374 The army moved to Uxbridge, 25 June, 1647.

770 Journal 40, fo. 230.

771 Journal 40, fos. 229-230.

M375 Withdrawal of the eleven members, 26 June, 1647.

772 Journal House of Commons, v, 225.

M376 The City’s petition to parliament to remove reformadoes, etc., 2 July.

773 Journal 40, fos. 231b-233; Journal House of Commons, v, 231; Rushworth, vi, 597-600.

M377 Letter of Fairfax to the City setting forth the obstacles to a peace, 8 July, 1647.

774 Journal 40, fo. 234.

775 Journal House of Commons, v, 238.

776 Journal House of Lords, ix, 322.

M378 The London apprentices’ petitions, 13 and 14 July.

777 Journal House of Commons, v, 243; Rushworth, vi, 614, 615.

778 Journal House of Commons, v, 243; Journal House of Lords, ix, 330; Rushworth, vi, 618, 619.

779 Agents elected to represent the views of the rank and file of the army. A corruption of "adjutators."

780 Representation of the agitators, 16 July.—Clarke Papers, i, 170 _seq._

M379 The Solemn Engagement of the City, 21 July.

781 Journal 40, fos. 238-239.

782 Journal House of Commons, v, 257; Journal House of Lords, ix, 351; _Id._, x, 202, 203.

M380 The City’s militia again placed in the hands of a parliamentary committee, July, 1647.

783 Journal 40, fos. 237b, 238.

784 Journal House of Commons, v, 254; Journal House of Lords, ix, 349.

M381 Dissatisfaction of the City, 24 July.

M382 A mob at Westminster, 26 July, 1647.

M383 The late militia ordinance repealed, 26 July.

785 One petition purported to come from "Divers young men, citizens and others, apprentices of the city," and the other from "Divers well affected citizens of the city of London."—Journal 40, fos. 236, 239, 239b.

786 Journal House of Lords, ix, 355.

787 Journal House of Commons, v, 258, 259; Whitelock, 260, 261; Clarke Papers, i, 218.

788 Journal 40, fo. 240b.

M384 The City prepares to defend itself, 27 July.

M385 Letter to Fairfax, 28 July, 1647.

789 Journal 40, fo. 240b.

790 Id., fo. 242b.

791 Journal 40, fo. 236.

M386 Letter from Fairfax, 29 July.

M387 The City’s reply.

792 Id., fos. 243, 243b.

793 Journal 40, fo. 243b.

M388 £20,000 voted for the defence of the city, 29 July, 1647.

794 Id., fo. 243.

795 Rushworth, vi, 646.

M389 Meeting of parliament, 30 July.

796 Journal 40, fos. 243-244; Journal House of Commons, v, 259.

M390 Massey appointed to the command of the city’s forces, 31 July, 1647.

797 Journal 40, fos. 244-246b; Journal House of Commons, v, 261.

M391 New commissioners sent to the army, 2 Aug.

M392 Their instructions.

798 Journal 40, fo. 247.

M393 A declaration by the army, 3 Aug., 1647.

799 Id., fos. 248-250b.

M394 The City’s reply to the declaration, 3 Aug., 1647.

800 Journal 40, fo. 250b.

801 Id., fos. 244b-246.

M395 Surrender of forts to Fairfax, 4 Aug.

802 Journal 40, fo. 251.

803 Id., fo. 251b.

M396 The army enters London, 6 Aug., 1647.

804 Id., fo. 251b.

M397 The army passes through the city, 7 Aug.

M398 Fairfax and officers invited to dinner at Grocer’s Hall.

805 Journal 40, fos. 252, 252b.

M399 Retribution on the city for opposition to army, 6 Aug., 1647.

806 6 Aug.—Journal House of Commons, v, 269.

807 News letter from the army, 5 Aug.—Clarke Papers, p. 222.

808 Journal House of Commons, v, 269; Journal House of Lords, ix, 375.

809 Journal 40, fos. 253b, 254.

M400 Glyn, the city’s Recorder, expelled the House and committed to the Tower, Aug., 1647.

810 News letter from the army, 5 Aug.—Clarke Papers, pp. 220-221.

811 Journal 40, fo. 251.

812 Journal House of Commons, v, 295.

M401 A loan of £50,000 demanded from the city, 24 Aug., 1647.

M402 The city hesitates to advance the sum demanded, 6 Sept., 1647.

813 Journal 40, fos. 254-254b.

814 Journal House of Commons, 3 Sept., v, 290.

815 Journal 40, fo. 255.

816 Journal 40, fos. 255b, 256.

M403 Parliament repeats its demand for a loan, 9 Sept., 1647.

M404 The demand backed up by a letter from Fairfax, 6 Sept.

817 Journal House of Commons, v, 298.

818 Journal 40, fo. 256b. The letter of Fairfax is printed in the Perfect Diurnal (6-13 Sept.), but the date is there given as 7 Sept.

M405 The City’s reply, 13 Sept., 1647.

819 Journal 40, fo. 257; Journal House of Commons, v, 301.

820 Journal 40, fo. 257.

M406 Suggestions by Fairfax to parliament for enforcing a city loan, 16 Sept.

821 "A declaration from his Excie. Sr. Tho. Fairfax and the General Council of the Armie, held at Putney on Thursday, 16 Sept., 1647, concerning the delayes in raising money for supply of the armie, and other forces of the kingdome; and their humble offers and desires in relation thereunto. To be tendred to the right Hoble. Comrs. of Parliament residing with the armie, and by them to be presented to the Houses."—Journal 40, fo. 258.

M407 The mayor, one of the sheriffs, and three aldermen committed to the Tower, 24 Sept., 1647.

M408 Warner elected mayor, _loco_ Gayer, 28 Sept., 1647.

M409 The new mayor presented to the House of Lords.

822 Journal House of Commons, v, 315. An attempt to impeach another alderman, John Bide, on a charge of high crimes and misdemeanors broke down.—_Id._, v, 317.

823 Id., v, 317.

824 Repertory 5, pt. ii, fo. 177; Journal House of Lords, ix, 452.

825 Journal 40, fo. 259.

826 Common Hall Book No. 2, fo. 97; Gardiner, "Hist. of the Great Civil War," iii, 205.

827 Journal House of Lords, ix, 456.

828 Journal House of Commons, v, 320, 323, 326; Journal House of Lords, ix, 467, 470.

M410 Threat of Fairfax to quarter troops on the city to assist in getting in arrears, 19 Nov.

829 Journal 40, fo. 260, 260b; Maitland, i, 408.

830 Journal 40, fo. 260.

M411 The City’s reply, 20 Nov., 1647.

831 Journal House of Commons, v, 364.

832 This reply, although dated 20 Nov., was not submitted to the Common Council for approval until the 25th.—Journal 40, fo. 261b; Maitland, i, 409.

M412 Proposals for the better getting in of arrears in the city rejected by parliament, 22 Nov.

833 Journal 40, fo. 262; Journal House of Commons, v, 366.

M413 Letter from Fairfax at Windsor, 24 Nov., 1647.

834 Journal 40, fo. 262; Maitland, i, 410.

M414 City’s petition to parliament, 1 Dec., 1647.

835 Journal 40, fo. 263.

836 Journal House of Commons, v, 374; Journal 40, fo. 264.

837 Gardiner, "Hist. Great Civil War," iii, 269.

M415 The royalist cause in the city.

838 News letter of Nicholas Oudart, sometime secretary to Charles I, whom he attended in 1648 in the Isle of Wight, 4 March, 1646/7.—Nicholas Papers (Camd. Soc., N.S., No. 40), p. 81.

839 Journal House of Commons (22 Jan., 1648), v, 439, 440.

840 Whitelock, pp. 284, 285.

M416 A riot in the city, 9-10 April, 1648.

841 Report to Common Council, 11 April.—Journal 40, fo. 267; Whitelock, p. 299.

842 Repertory 59, fo. 189b.

M417 The City reports the riot to parliament, 13 April, 1648.

843 Journal 40, fos. 268, 268b; Journal House of Commons, v, 528, 529; Journal House of Lords, x, 188, 190.

M418 Impeachment of Gayer and his brother aldermen, 15 April, 1648.

M419 Their discharge ordered by the Lords, 6 June, 1648.

844 Journal House of Lords, x, 201-203.

845 Journal House of Lords, x, 207, 208.

846 Id., x, 231, 232.

847 Journal House of Commons, v, 583, 584.

848 Journal House of Lords, x, 307.

M420 The "Lion Sermon" at the church of St. Catherine Cree.

849 City Parochial Charities Com. Report, 1880, vol. iii, p. 130.

M421 News of an army being raised in Scotland, 25 April, 1648.

850 Letter from Hazlerigg (the same probably, writes Dr. Gardiner, as the one printed anonymously in the "Perfect Diurnal") announcing that a resolution to raise an army had been taken in Scotland, dated Newcastle, 20 April.—Journal House of Commons, v, 544.

M422 Ill-feeling between the city and the army.

M423 Everard’s information, 24 April, 1648.

M424 Demands of the city, 27 April.

851 Journal 40, fo. 267b.

852 Journal 40, fos. 269, 270; Journal House of Commons, v, 546; Journal House of Lords, x, 234.

M425 Charges against a member of the Common Council, 28 April, 1648.

853 Referring probably to the report of the riot which had taken place on the night of 9 April.

854 Journal 40, fo. 271b.

M426 Great alarm in the city, 29 April.

M427 Revolt of Wales, 1 May, 1648.

855 Journal 40, fos. 270b, 271b.

M428 Necessity of conciliating the City.

856 This remark is credited to Cromwell, but as Dr. Gardiner ("Hist. Great Civil War," iii, 368, note) has pointed out, the story must be accepted with caution as emanating from a royalist.

M429 The protection of parliament entrusted to the City in the absence of Fairfax.

857 Journal 40, fo. 272b; Journal House of Commons, v, 549.

858 Journal 40, fo. 275.

M430 Petition for control of city militia and custody of the Tower, 9 May, 1648.

859 Id., fos. 273, 273b, 274.

860 Journal House of Lords, x, 249, 252, 257, 260, 261.

861 Journal House of Commons, v, 555, 556.

862 Journal 40, fo. 274b.

863 Journal House of Commons, v, 560, 561.

M431 Parliament looks to the City for protection, 19 May, 1648.

864 Journal 40, fo. 275b.

M432 The City master of the situation.

M433 Determined to stand by parliament, 19 May.

865 Gardiner, "Hist. Great Civil War," iii, 377.

866 Journal 40, fo. 275b; Journal House of Lords, x, 272.

M434 Petition for release of Recorder and others, 23 May.

867 Journal 40, fos. 276b, 277; Journal House of Commons, v, 570; Journal House of Lords, x, 276.

M435 A royalist rising in Kent, 21 May, 1648.

868 Journal 40, fo. 278.

M436 The royalist party in the city.

869 Journal 40, fos. 278b, 279.

870 Id., fo. 279b.

M437 An appeal for a Common Hall to be summoned refused, 3 June, 1648.

871 Journal 40, fos. 280-280b.

M438 The insurgents approaching London, 3 June, 1648.

M439 Impeachments abandoned and aldermen released from prison.

872 Journal 40, fo. 280b.

873 Journal House of Commons, v, 583-584; Journal House of Lords, x, 307.

M440 Feeling in the city.

M441 The Common Council desire that the king may come to London, 22 June.

874 Journal 40, fo. 281. Four days later (26 June), when the draft petition was read to the council, it was asked whether the clause relating to his majesty coming to "some of his houses near the parliament" represented the sense of the court, and it was decided by show of hands that it was the sense of the court.—_Id._, fo. 281b.

875 Journal House of Commons, v, 613-614; Journal House of Lords, x, 347, 348, 349-350.

876 Journal 40, fo. 282b.

M442 Petition to parliament by officers of the trained bands, 5 July.

877 Journal House of Lords, x, 362-364; Journal 40, fos. 283b, 284, 285.

878 Journal House of Commons, v, 624.

M443 The City engages to guard the king against violence if brought to London.

879 Journal 40, fo. 284b.

M444 Negotiations for a personal treaty with the king.

880 Journal 40, fos. 285b-286b; Whitelock, 319.

M445 The Speaker insulted by a member of the city militia, 8 July 1648.

881 Journal 40, fo. 286b.

882 Gardiner, iii, 412, 413.

883 Journal House of Commons, v, 635.

M446 Petition to parliament, 12 July.

M447 The Speaker’s reply to the petitioners.

884 Information given to the Common Council by Chetwyn, 12 July.—Journal 40, fos. 287, 288b, 289, 289b.

885 The petition, not having emanated from the Corporation, is not entered on the City’s Records, but is printed in Journal House of Lords, v, 380.

886 Journal House of Commons, v, 634.

M448 Another petition to Parliament for amalgamation of militia, 18 July, 1648.

887 Journal 40, fos. 287b, 288; Journal House of Commons, v, 639; Journal House of Lords, x, 384, 385.

M449 The City desires Skippon’s commission revoked, 22 July, 1648.

888 Journal 40, fos. 288b, 289, 289b; Journal House of Lords, x, 389, 390; Journal House of Commons, v, 644.

889 Journal 40, fos. 289b, 290, 291b.

890 Journal 40, fos. 290-291; Journal House of Commons, v, 651.

M450 A deputation from parliament attends the Common Council, 31 July, 1648.

891 Journal 40, fo. 291; W.G. to Sir A. Gibson, 26 July, cited by Dr. Gardiner, "Hist. Great Civil War," iii, 424, 425.

M451 Letter and declaration of the Prince of Wales sent to the City, 29 July, 1648.

892 Journal 40, fo. 291b; Journal House of Lords, x, 399.

893 Whitelock, pp. 326, 327.

M452 The City ordered by parliament to send no reply, 3 Aug.

894 Journal 40, fos. 291-292b; Journal House of Commons, 660, 661.

M453 The prince accepts the Scottish terms, 16 Aug.

895 W. Steward to Rupert, 20 Aug., cited by Dr. Gardiner, "Hist. Great Civil War," iii, 452.

M454 Change of feeling in the city, 31 Aug., 1648.

896 Journal 40, fo. 295.

897 Journal 40, fos. 295b, 296, 296b; Journal House of Commons, v, 694; Journal House of Lords, x, 478-480.

M455 A city loan of £10,000 towards carrying out negotiations with the king, 4 Sept.

898 Journal 40, fos. 296-297.

M456 Petition by the London "Levellers" against negotiating with the king.

899 "Perfect Diurnal" for the week ending 18 Sept. (Guildhall Library).

M457 Opening of the Treaty of Newport, 18 Sept., 1648.

900 "Perfect Occurrences" for the week ending 22 Sept. (Guildhall Library).

M458 Dispute in Common Council as to efficiency of guard supplied to parliament by the City, 4 Nov., 1648.

901 Journal 40, fo. 300b.

902 Id., fos. 301-302.

M459 A declaration from the army, 30 Nov., 1648.

M460 Letter from Fairfax. Is coming to London, and demands the sum of £40,000, 30 Nov.

903 Journal House of Commons, vi, 92.

904 Journal 40, fo. 304b.

905 Journal 40, fo. 305; letter printed in Journal House of Lords (x, 618).

M461 The letter of Fairfax laid before Parliament, 1 Dec, 1648.

906 Journal 40, fo. 306-306b.

907 Id., fo. 305b.

M462 The army returns to London, 2 Dec.

908 Id., fo. 307.

M463 The City’s reply to the demands of Fairfax, 6 Dec.

909 Journal 40, fo. 307.

M464 Arrest of Major-General Browne, one of the sheriffs, 12 Dec, 1648.

910 Repertory 59, fo. 325.

M465 Fairfax seizes the treasury at Weavers’ Hall, 8 Dec, 1648.

911 Journal 40, fo. 308.

M466 Soldiers to be withdrawn from the city on payment of arrears within 14 days, 9 Dec., 1648.

912 Id., fo. 308b.

913 Repertory 59, fo. 323.

M467 The question of discontinuing the city guard of the trained bands referred, 13 Dec.

914 Journal 40, fo. 308b.

M468 Pay demanded for soldiers quartered in the city, 6 Jan., 1649.

915 Journal 40, fos. 309-311.

M469 Ordinances of parliament touching elections to the Common Council, 18 and 20 Dec.

916 Journal House of Commons, vi, 99, 101; Journal House of Lords, x, 633.

917 Journal House of Commons, vi, 103-104, 105, 111; Rushworth, vii, 1370, 1376, 1384.

918 Journal 40, fo. 309b.

M470 Proceedings of the court of Common Council, 13 Jan., 1649.

919 Dated "Queenstreet," 9 Jan.—Rushworth, vii, 1387, 1388.

920 The court had been asked on the 9th Jan. to present a petition to the House "subscribed by many hands," the purport of which is not set out in the City’s Journal, but was considered to be of such "high concernment" that the petition was referred to a committee (Journal 40, fo. 310). There is little doubt but that this petition was embodied in that presented to the House on the 15th.

921 Journal 40, fo. 313b.

922 Robert Michell, the Town Clerk, was soon afterwards (3 July) dismissed from office; and the same fate threatened Henry Proby, the Common Sergeant, but the Common Council relented and Proby was allowed to hold his office until his decease.—Journal 41, fos. 1b, 248.

923 Journal 40, fo. 313.

M471 Petition to parliament by the "commons of the city," 15 Jan., 1649.

924 "A narrative of the proceedings of the court of Common Councell held in Guildhall, London, the thirteenth of January, 1648, humbly presented by the order of the said courte to the honorable the Commons of England assembled in parliament."—Journal 40, fo. 314. See Appendix.

925 Journal House of Commons, vi, 117, 118. A printed copy of the petition and narrative, as well as of Tichborne’s speech and vote of the House, is preserved in the Guildhall Library (A.5.5.)

M472 £4,000 still due to the army, 23 Jan.

926 Repertory 59, fo. 333.

M473 The trial and execution of the king, Jan., 1649.

927 Journal 41, fo. 131b.

928 Howell’s State Trials, iv, 1051, 1052.

929 Of Farringdon Within.—Repertory 59, fo. 456b.

930 Noble’s "Lives of the English Regicides," ii, 274, 275.

M474 The Council of State, 14 Feb., 1649.

931 Journal House of Commons, vi, 132, 133.

932 Id., vi, 140, 141.

M475 Analogous changes in national and municipal government.

M476 The right of veto by mayor and aldermen impugned, 24 Jan., 1645.

933 Journal 40, fo. 121b.

M477 Act of Parliament regulating proceedings of Common Council, 28 Feb., 1649.

934 Journal 40, fo. 312. This Act is recorded neither in the Journals of the House of Commons nor in Scobell’s collections.

M478 Proceedings of the Common Council, 14 June, 1650.

935 Repertory 60, fo. 159b.

936 On the 9th May, 1644, the Common Council—in consideration of the sad distractions and divisions among them, and the heavy judgments of God justly drawn upon the land for its manifold sins and transgressions—resolved that their proceedings in the future should be opened with prayer.—Journal 40, fo. 96.

937 Journal 41, fo. 26b.

M479 A further purge to be administered to the Common Council, 17 March, 1649.

938 Journal 40, fo. 314b. This committee reported to the court on 29 May (when the court decided, after long debate, that the Recorder was an officer and not a member of the court), but the report was not entered in the Journal until 9 July, 1650.—Journal 40, fo. 320b; Journal 41, fo. 30.

939 Journal 40, fo. 314b.

940 Id., fo. 315.

M480 Reynardson deposed from the mayoralty, 2 April, 1649.

941 Journal House of Commons, vi, 177; Whitelock, pp. 392-393.

942 Cal. of Committee for advance of money (State Papers Dom.), pt. iii, p. 1188.

M481 Reynardson and four other aldermen deprived of their aldermanries, 7 April, 1649.

943 Journal House of Commons, vi, 181; Repertory 59, fo. 371.

944 Cal. State Papers Dom. (1651), p. 147. A proclamation was afterwards ordered to be published inflicting a penalty on all who should presume to hold intelligence or traffic with Bunce.—_Id._, p. 162.

M482 Difficulty in filling their places.

945 Repertory 59, fos. 389, 399b, 402, 403b, 405b, 406b, 419b, 420b, 426, 431, 435b, 440b, 442, 451b, 501.

946 Journal 40, fo. 319; Journal 41, fos. 1, 2, 3.

M483 Misbehaviour of soldiers in the city.

947 1 Feb., 8 Feb., 1649.—Repertory 59, fos. 339b, 343.

948 Journal 40, fo. 317b.

M484 Affairs in Ireland.

949 Cal. State Papers Dom. (1649-1650), p. 50.

M485 City loan of £120,000, 12 April, 1649.

950 Journal 40, fo. 317; Journal House of Commons, vi, 185, 186, 187.

M486 A mutiny in the army, April, 1649.

951 Whitelock, pp. 398, 399.

M487 The Commonwealth at length proclaimed in the city, 30 May.

952 Journal House of Commons, vi, 206.

953 Whitelock, p. 404.

954 M. de Croullé to Cardinal Mazarin, 14 June, 1649, cited by Guizot, "Hist. de la Republique D’Angleterre et de Cromwell," i, 10-11.

955 Council of State to the mayor, 30 May.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1649-1650), p. 165.

M488 Aldermen punished for not attending proclamation.

956 Whitelock, p. 405; Journal House of Commons, vi, 222.

957 A draft bill to the above effect corrected by Bradshaw.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1649-1650), p. 175. No mention of it appears in the Journal of the House for that day.

M489 The Commons and Council of State entertained in the city, 7 June, 1649.

958 Journal 40, fos. 320b, 321; Whitelock, p. 404.

959 Whitelock, p. 406; Cal. State Papers Dom. (1649-1650), pp. 175. 176.

M490 Gifts of plate to Fairfax and Cromwell.

960 Journal 40, fo. 321b.

961 Repertory 59, fos. 419b, 446b.

M491 Gift of Richmond Park to the city, 17 July.

962 Journal House of Commons, vi, 227.

963 Id., vi, 246.

964 Id., vi, 263.

M492 Demand for a further loan of £150,000, 5 July, 1649.

965 Journal 41, fo. 2b; Whitelock, p. 413. Proceedings of Council of State, 3 July.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1649-1650), p. 220.

M493 News of the defeat of Ormond before Dublin, 11 Aug.

966 Council of State to mayor, 11 Aug.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1649-1650), p. 273.

967 Repertory 59, fo. 476; Journal House of Commons, vi, 287.

M494 Letter from the Council of State threatening "free quarters" for the army, 22 Aug., 1649.

968 Cal. State Papers Dom. (1649-1650), pp. 287-288.

M495 Glyn, the Recorder, forced to resign. 25 Aug., 1649.

969 Repertory 59, fo. 472. Glyn had assumed the coif in October, 1648, and in so doing had followed the example of Sir Henry Montague and others of his predecessors. The City had tried to get rid of Montague (in 1610) on the same grounds, but failed owing to the intervention of the king, who emphatically declared that in calling Montague to be a sergeant-at-law he intended a further mark of favour to him and to the City, and did not intend that he should lose his place.—Remembrancia (Index), p. 288.

970 Repertory 59, fo. 474. As early as the 3rd July the Common Council (presumably by virtue of the resolution of parliament of 28 Feb., 1649) had looked upon the Recordership as vacant, and had nominated Steele as Glyn’s successor. It had, however, to give way to the Court of Aldermen.—Journal 41, fos. 1b, 4.

M496 Election of Foote, mayor, 29 Sept.

971 Journal 41, fo. 7b. For a mayor to appoint an alderman who had not yet passed the chair to act as his _locum tenens_ was unusual and contrary to custom.

M497 The trial of John Lilburne at the Guildhall, 25-27 Oct., 1649.

972 "A discourse betwixt Lieut.-Col. John Lilburne and Mr. Hugh Peter, 25 May, 1649."—Lilburne Tracts (Guildhall Library), vol. iv.

973 "An Outcry of the Young Men and Apprentices of London, 22 Aug., 1649."

974 The Council of State to the mayor, etc., 2 Oct.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1649-1650), p. 328. Proceedings of Council of State, 10 Nov.—_Ibid._, p. 386.

975 Journal House of Commons, vi, 293.

976 "The Triall of Lieut.-Col. John Lilburne at the Guildhall, 24, 25, 26 Oct., 1649."—Lilburne Tracts, vol. iv.

M498 Lilburne elected member of Common Council, 21 Dec., 1649.

M499 Philip Chetwyn disfranchised and sent to Warwick Castle.

977 Journal House of Commons, vi, 337, 338.

978 Whitelock, p. 436.

979 Journal House of Commons, vi, 338.

M500 Colonel Pride elected member of Common Council, 21 Dec.

M501 Browne dismissed from parliament and his aldermanry, 4 Dec.

980 He afterwards served on various committees.—Journal 41, fos. 13b, 21.

981 Journal 41, fo. 10b; Journal House of Commons, vi, 328, 329, note.

M502 Expenses of mayor and sheriffs cut down, 11 Dec, 1649.

982 Journal 16, fo. 334.

983 Journal 41, fos. 12b, 13.

M503 The mayor and sheriffs no longer to sell places, 1649.

M504 Means for replenishing the City’s Chamber.

984 Journal 41, fo. 13b.

M505 Proposed postal system in order to raise money for the poor of the city, 18 Sept., 1649.

985 Id., fo. 5b.

986 Id., fo. 6.

M506 The City’s petition to parliament, 16 Nov., 1649.

987 Journal 41, fo. 10.

M507 Danger of a _Quo Warranto_ against the City.

988 Id., fo. 16b.

989 Journal 41, fo. 19b.

M508 The City’s post to Scotland a subject of complaint to parliament, 21 March, 1650.

990 Journal House of Commons, vi, 385.

M509 Resolution of the House of Commons, 21 March, 1650.

991 Journal House of Commons, vi, 385. _Cf._ Council of State, day’s proceedings, 14 March.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1650), p. 38.

M510 The City’s posts suppressed.

992 Journal 41, fo. 23.

M511 £4,000 to be raised to find work for the poor, 21 May, 1650.

993 Journal 41, fo. 20.

994 Id., fos. 23-25.

995 Journal House of Commons, vi, 226.

996 Journal 41, fo. 23.

M512 Inhabitants of borough of Southwark desire incorporation. 4 Dec., 1649.

997 Journal 41, fo. 17b; Journal House of Commons, vi, 329.

M513 The City’s answer, 21 May, 1650.

998 Journal 41, fos. 17b, 19b; Journal House of Commons, vi, 351.

999 Journal 41, fos. 22, 24.

1000 Journal 41, fo. 27b.

M514 Letter from the Council of State to the mayor touching the City’s Irish estate, 15 Feb., 1650.

M515 The city and companies assert their rights to their Irish estates.

1001 Copy of letter preserved among the archives of the Grocers’ Company. _Cf._ Council of State, day’s proceedings, 10 Feb.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1649-1650), p. 510.

1002 Repertory 60, fo. 70b.

1003 Id., fos. 131b-133.

M516 Cromwell welcomed on return from Ireland, 31 May, 1650.

1004 Whitelock, p. 457; Guizot, _op. cit._ i, 120.

1005 Whitelock, p. 462.

M517 Cromwell in Scotland.

M518 Thanksgiving day for victory at Dunbar, 3 Sept., 1650.

1006 Journal 41, fo. 34.

1007 Whitelock, p. 475.

M519 Review of city forces in Hyde Park. 22 Oct., 1650.

1008 Whitelock, pp. 475-476.

M520 Resolution of Common Council on elections in Common Hall, 14 Oct., 1650.

1009 Journal 41, fo. 35.

1010 Journal 41, fo. 35b. A vacant space is left in the Journal for the report, which, however, was not entered.

1011 Id., fo. 36b.

M521 Act of Common Council touching elections in Common Hall, 4 Nov., 1651.

1012 Journal 41, fos. 37-40.

1013 Id., fos. 65b, 68.

M522 Removal of royal statues, arms, etc., by order of the Council of State.

1014 Repertory 60, fos. 213, 220b.

1015 Id., fo. 219.

1016 Cal. State Papers Dom. (1650), pp. 453, 484-485.

1017 Repertory 61, fo. 74b.

M523 Letter of thanks from Cromwell to the mayor, read 7 March, 1651.

1018 Journal 41, fos. 34, 35, 40b.

1019 Journal 41, fo. 44b. Cromwell’s letter having been read before the Common Council, was, we are told, "delivered back to the lord mayor who presented it." The custom of the lord mayor for the time being keeping as private property letters addressed to him in his official capacity continues to deprive the Corporation of a valuable addition to their records.

M524 Petition by the City against excessive taxation, 24 March, 1651.

1020 Journal 41, fo. 46b.

M525 Parliament authorises the raising of 4,000 horse, 8 April, 1651.

1021 Journal House of Commons, vi, 554, 556.

1022 Journal 41, fo. 47b.

1023 Journal 41, fo. 48.

1024 Letter of Council of State, 6 May.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1651), p. 181.

M526 The lord mayor’s allowance cut down, 1651.

1025 Journal 41, fos. 53, 54.

1026 Repertory 61, fo. 236b

1027 Id., fo. 240.

M527 Matters of difference between the aldermen and the Common Council.

1028 Journal 41, fo. 55.

M528 The aldermen complain of encroachments by the Common Council, Oct.-Nov., 1651.

1029 Repertory 61, fos. 238, 238b; Repertory 62, fos. 17b-20.

1030 Cal. State Papers Dom. (1651), p. 470. Proceedings of Council of State, 4 Dec.—_Id._ (1651-1652), p. 46.

1031 Id. (1651-1652), pp. 56, 63; Journal 41, fo. 65b. _Vide sup._ p. 330.

M529 The mayor and aldermen refuse to withdraw from the Common Council, 3 Dec., 1651.

1032 Journal 41, fo. 67.

M530 The question of allowances to mayor and sheriffs still undetermined, 1652.

1033 Journal 41, fos. 71, 72, 72b, 73.

1034 Id., fo. 73b.

1035 Journal 41, fo. 74b.

M531 Simon Edmonds elected mayor, but refuses to serve, Sept., 1652.

M532 Discharged on fine of £600.

1036 Id., fos. 75-76.

1037 Repertory 62, fo. 197b.

1038 The allowances were settled 12 Oct.—Journal 41, fos. 75b, 76.

1039 Journal 41, fo. 77.

1040 Repertory 62, fo. 205b.

M533 The mayoralty of John Fowke, 1652-1653.

1041 Common Hall Book No. 3, fo. 264.

1042 Journal 41, fos. 83b, 84.

1043 Id., fos. 88b, 89.

1044 Id., fo. 89b.

1045 "The perticulers of a charge of the aldermen and commons of the citty of London ... against John Fowke, the present lord maior, exhibited by a Committee of Common Councill authorized thereto," 26 Oct., 1653.—Journal 41. fos. 91-92.

1046 "Interrupted" came to be the authorised expression for the treatment parliament suffered at the hands of Cromwell on this memorable occasion. Scobell, the clerk of the parliament, who had innocently entered in the Journal that on a certain day the Lord General Cromwell had "dissolved" the House, was called to account six years later for venturing to use such a term, and his excuse that he had heard of no other term until six years later was scarcely tolerated.—Pepys, Diary, 9 Jan., 1660.

1047 Journal 41, fos. 89b, 90.

1048 Id., fo. 88b.

M534 Numerous refusals to serve as sheriff.

1049 Journal 41, fos. 74, 74b, 75, 77b, 80, 80b; Repertory 62, fos. 154b, 160, 165, 173, 173b, 174b, 185, 190b.

1050 Journal 41, fo. 74.

1051 23 Nov., 1652.—Repertory 62, fo. 221b. By the year 1660 the list of persons exempted for one reason or another from serving the office of sheriff included more than 100 names.—Journal 45, fo. 33.

M535 The Scottish army enters England, Aug., 1651.

1052 Cromwell to Lenthall, 4 Aug.—Carlyle, "Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches," iii, 188-191.

M536 Measures taken by parliament, Aug., 1651.

1053 Journal 41, fo. 62.—"The Council [of State] sent a committee to the Common Council to stir them up in this conjuncture to do what becomes them for their own and the public safety, and they are at present in a very good and complying temper, and ready to do anything they shall be directed to" (the Council of State to Major-General Harrison, 13 Aug.).—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1651), p. 327.

1054 Journal House of Commons, vi, 619-622. Proceedings of Council of State. 14 Aug.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1651), p. 329. Council of State to mayor, etc., of London, 19 Aug.—_Id._, pp. 342-343.

M537 A letter from Charles to the City to be burnt by the common hangman, 25 Aug.

1055 Journal House of Commons, vii, 6.

1056 Whitelock, p. 506.

M538 Battle of Worcester, 3 Sept., 1651.

1057 Cromwell to Lenthall, 3 Sept.—Carlyle, _op. cit._, iii, 201.

1058 Journal House of Commons, vii, 15.

1059 Journal House of Commons, vii, 12-13, 18-21, 30-31.

1060 Journal 41, fos. 64b, 74.

M539 Scottish prisoners brought to London.

1061 Carlyle, iii, 205-206.

M540 Cromwell’s reception in London on his return from Worcester, 12 Sept., 1651.

1062 Whitelock, pp. 509, 510; Journal House of Commons, vii, 18.

M541 The Navigation Act, 1651.

1063 Journal 41, fo. 68.

M542 The war with Holland, 1652-1653.

1064 Cal. State Papers Dom. (1651-1652), p. 196.

1065 Proceedings of Council of State, 24 and 29 May, 1652.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1651-1652), pp. 255-267.

1066 Proceedings of Council of State, 30 March, 1653.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1652-1653), p. 242.

1067 Journal 41, fo. 90b; Cal. State Papers Dom. (1653-1654), pp. 260, 269.

M543 Subscriptions opened in the city for wounded soldiers and sailors, 4 March, 1653.

1068 Journal 41, fos. 82-82b. In a subsequent rendering an account of the money the amount collected is given as £1,072 16_s._ 5_d._—_Id._, fo. 97.

1069 Journal 41, fo. 83.

1070 Repertory 62, fo. 317; Whitelock, p. 557; Cal. State Papers Dom. (1652-1653), pp. 429, 434.

M544 Conflict between parliament and the city touching elections, Feb.-March, 1653.

1071 The Act which forbade anyone to be elected an officer in the city who had been in favour of entering into a private engagement with the late king.—Journal House of Commons, vii, 53.

1072 Journal 41, fos. 81b, 82.

M545 Barebone’s or the "little" parliament, 4 July-12 Dec., 1653.

1073 Gen. Oliver Cromwell to Praise-God Barebone, Esq., 6 June.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1652-1653), p. 386.

1074 Journal 41, fos. 86-88.

M546 Cromwell created Lord Protector, 16 Dec, 1653.

1075 Journal House of Commons, vii, 363; Whitelock, p. 571. The council to the lord mayor, 19 Dec., 1653.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1653-1654), p. 299.

1076 Proceedings of Council of State, 15 Feb., 1654.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1653-1654), p. 402.

M547 The Lord Protector invited to dine in the city, Feb., 1654.

1077 Whitelock, p. 578.

1078 Journal 41, fos. 92b-93.

1079 Whitelock, p. 581.

M548 The first parliament under the Protectorate, Sept., 1654-Jan., 1655.

1080 Journal 41, fo. 100b.

1081 With the exception of the parliament of 1284 it is doubtful if the City sent that number of burgesses to any other. As to the parliament of 1654, the names of five members only have come down to us (see Loftie’s "History of London," Appendix B). But that the city did send six members to this parliament is the more probable from the fact that in June, 1657, the Common Council prepared a petition to parliament praying to be allowed to send "their full number" of six burgesses "already chosen" to parliament.—Journal 41, fo. 156. Moreover, the fact that in March, 1653, the Common Council ordered a petition to be prepared for parliament "touching the number of future burgesses for this city in parliament," points to some probable alteration in the number of city members.—_Id._, 41, fo. 83.

M549 Alderman Pack and his "remonstrance," Feb., 1657.

1082 Journal House of Commons, vii, 496.

1083 Sec. Thurloe to Ambassador Lockhart, 26 Feb., 1657.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1656-1657), p. 292.

1084 Journal House of Commons, vii, 512.

1085 Id., vii, 533.

1086 Whitelock, p. 662.

1087 Whitelock, p. 664. President Lawrence to the lord mayor, 29 June.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1657-1658), p. 19.

M550 Some members of Cromwell’s House of Lords.

1088 Carlyle, "Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches," iv, 321-322.

1089 Repertory 66, fo. 140b.

M551 Dissolution of the second parliament under the Protectorate, 4 Feb., 1658.

M552 Precautions taken against a royalist rising, March, 1658.

1090 "Cromwelliana" (Guildhall Library, A, 2, 4), pp. 170, 171. Robinson to Williamson, 15 March.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1657-1658), p. 328.

1091 Journal 41, fo. 169b.

1092 Id., fo. 170.

1093 Id., fo. 170b.

1094 Journal 41, fo. 171.

M553 Aldermen Chiverton and Ireton knighted by Cromwell, 22 March, 1658.

1095 "Cromwelliana," p. 171.

M554 The royalist rising in the city of 15 May.

1096 Id., 172.

1097 Id., 174.

M555 Death of Cromwell, 3 Sept.

1098 Cal. State Papers Dom. (1658-1659), p. 131.

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 £20 was granted to the Swordbearer for his journey and another of £5 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 £60,000, 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 £500,000, 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 £100,000 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 £30 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 £100,000, 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 £31,978 9_s._ 11_d._, of which £21,978 9_s._ 11_d._ 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 Archæologia (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 £20.

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 £200,000, 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 £50,000, 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 £100,000 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 £1,000 of the whole sum to be paid for the ship, the contract price being £12 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 £100,000, 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 £100,000.

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 £100 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 £50, 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 £3 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 £10,000 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 £100,000, afterwards raised to £150,000.

M721 Parliamentary vote of £200,000 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 £10,000 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 £500 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 £200,000, of which sum Sir Samuel Dashwood is said to have subscribed no less than £60,000.—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 £100,000, 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 £200,000 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 £100,000 voted, 26 May.

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

M887 A further loan of £200,000 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 £200,000, Oct., 1692

1762 Repertory 96, fo. 517. The lord mayor is said to have subscribed £300, each sheriff £150 and the aldermen £50 a-piece.—Luttrell, ii, 603.

1763 Journal 51, fo. 213b.

1764 Luttrell, ii, 603.

M890 Another City loan of £200,000, 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 £300,000, 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,