Chapter I: Front Matter

LONDON AND THE KINGDOM

A HISTORY DERIVED MAINLY FROM THE ARCHIVES AT GUILDHALL IN THE CUSTODY OF
THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF LONDON.

By
Reginald R. Sharpe, D.C.L.,

RECORDS CLERK IN THE OFFICE OF THE TOWN CLERK OF THE CITY OF LONDON;
EDITOR OF "CALENDAR OF WILLS ENROLLED IN THE COURT OF HUSTING," ETC.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

Vol II

_PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE CORPORATION UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE LIBRARY
COMMITTEE._

LONDON
LONGMANS, GREEN & Co.
and New York: 15 East 16th Street.
1894.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER XIX.
Reception of James I by the City.
Catholic Plots.
Purveyance.
The City and Free Trade.
Prince Henry a Merchant Taylor.
The Gunpowder Plot.
The King of Denmark in the City.
The City’s Water Supply.
Hugh Middleton and the New River.
The Plantation of Ulster.
Deception practised on the City.
Allotment of the Irish Estate.
The Irish Society.
The Livery Companies and their title to Irish Estate.
CHAPTER XX.
The City and the Plantation of Virginia.
Public Lotteries in aid of the Plantation.
Copland’s Sermon at Bow Church.
The King’s pecuniary difficulties.
The Marriage of the Princess Elizabeth.
The King entertained by the City.
The Addled Parliament.
Peter Proby, Sheriff and Ex-Barber.
A general muster of City trained bands.
A Commission of Lieutenancy granted to the City.
The Company of Merchant Adventurers suppressed.
Knights of the Bath at Drapers’ Hall.
Request for a loan of £100,000.
Sebastian Hervey and his daughter.
The Thirty Years’ War.
Loan of £100,000 to the Elector Palatine.
The Spanish Ambassador ill-treated.
The City and the Spanish Match.
Concealed Lands.
The City and Mansfield’s Expedition.
CHAPTER XXI.
A loan of £60,000 to Charles I.
Failure of Cadiz Expedition.
A loan refused.
The City called upon to furnish ships and men.
The Forced Loan.
Expedition to Rochelle.
Royal Contract.
Doctor Lamb.
Assassination of Duke of Buckingham.
Tonnage and Poundage.
Birth of Prince Charles.
Demand for Ship money.
Richard Chambers.
Forfeiture of City’s Irish Estate.
Inspeximus Charter of Charles I.
The Short Parliament.
Attempt to force a City loan.
Four Aldermen committed to prison.
Impeachment of the Recorder.
Riot at Lambeth.
The Aldermen released.
More City Loans.
The Treaty of Ripon.
CHAPTER XXII.
Meeting of the Long Parliament.
The City and the Earl of Strafford.
The Scottish Commissioners in the City.
Letters to the City from Speaker Lenthall.
Trial and Execution of Strafford.
The "Protestation" accepted by the city.
The "Friendly Assistance."
The Scottish army paid off.
Reversal of judgment of forfeiture of Irish Estate.
The City and the Bishops.
Charles in the City.
Riots at Westminster.
The trained bands called out.
The attempted arrest of the five members.
The King at the Guildhall.
Panic in the City.
Skippon in command of the City Forces.
Charles quits London.
The Rebellion in Ireland.
The Militia Ordinance.
The City and Parliament.
A loan of £100,000 raised in the City.
Gurney, the Lord Mayor, deposed.
Charles sets up his Standard at Nottingham.
CHAPTER XXIII.
Commencement of the Civil War.
Military activity in the City.
Pennington, Mayor
Battle of Edge-Hill.
Another loan to Parliament.
A cry for Peace.
A City Deputation to the King at Oxford.
The City’s "Weekly Assessment"
Erection of Fortifications.
Volunteer horse and foot.
Waller’s Plot.
Disputes over the City’s Militia.
Waller appointed Command-in-Chief.
Essex and the Common Council
The City and the Siege of Gloucester.
Courageous conduct of Londoners at Newbury.
Disaffection of the trained bands.
Brooke’s Plot.
The Committee of Both Kingdoms.
The City’s Weekly Meal Money.
A rendezvous at Aylesbury.
The City’s Auxiliaries called out.
A large City loan.
Insubordination of trained bands.
Ordinance for a Standing Army.
Propositions for Peace.
Royalist Successes.
The Treaty of Uxbridge.