Chapter XXXIV: (m939) (5)

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,
part i, pp. 556, 580, 587, 594, 602). He was sheriff in 1692-3, but
was never lord mayor.

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

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

1782 Journal House of Commons, xi, 43.

1783 Id., xi, 49, 50.

1784 Id., xi, 64, 65.

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

M901 The City’s petition _re_ debts to orphans, 1691.

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

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

1788 Journal 51, fos. 214-215.

1789 Id., fo. 214*b.

M902 The Orphans’ Bill of 1693.

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

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

M903 A fresh scheme, Feb., 1694.

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

1793 They superseded the lamps known as "Heming’s lamps" (from Edmund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

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

M904 City Orphans’ Act passed, March, 1694.

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

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

M905 City loan of £200,000, 6 March, 1694.

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

1798 Journal 51, fo. 305.

1799 Journal 52, fo. 51.

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

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

1801 Macaulay, chap. xx.

1802 Burnet, iv, 223.

1803 Journal House of Commons, xi, 162.

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

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

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

1807 The picture drawn by Macaulay ("History of England," chap. xx) of
the chancellor of the exchequer going, hat in hand, up and down
Cheapside and Cornhill, attended by the lord mayor and aldermen, and
borrowing £100 from this hosier and £200 from that ironmonger, is
altogether too fanciful.

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

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

1809 Luttrell, iii, 419.

1810 Repertory 99, fo. 189.

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

1812 Luttrell, iii, 433, 443.

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

1813 Repertory 99, fos. 245, 262.

1814 See above, chap. xii.

1815 Repertory 99, fo. 320.

1816 Luttrell, iii, 446-447.

M909 Discovery of corrupt practices, 1695.

M910 The Speaker convicted of bribery.

1817 Journal House of Commons, xi, 258.

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

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

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

1820 Id., xi, 271, 274.

M912 Transactions between the City and the Marquis of Normanby.

1821 Journal 52, fo. 37b.

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

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

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

1824 Journal House of Commons, xi, 268.

M914 Sir Thomas Cook and Sir Basil Firebrace.

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

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

1827 Id., xi, 283.

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

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

M915 Examination of Cook, 23 April, 1695.

1830 Journal House of Commons, xi, 317.

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

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

1832 Id., xi, 322, 323.

M917 Evidence of Josiah Child, 26 April, 1695.

M918 Cook and Firebrace committed to the Tower.

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

1834 Luttrell, iv, 51, 404.

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

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

1836 Luttrell, v, 168.

1837 Id., v, 284.

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

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

1839 Luttrell, iii, 483-484.

1840 Id., iii, 512.

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

1841 Id., iii, 536, 537.

1842 Luttrell, iii, 538, 540, 542.

1843 Id., iii, 541, 543.

M922 The Barclay conspiracy, 1696.

1844 Journal 52, fo. 78b.

M923 The signing of associations.

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

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

M924 Bill of Attainder against Sir John Fenwick.

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

1848 Journal 52, fo. 109b.

1849 Repertory 101, fo. 132.

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

1850 Journal 52, fos. 80, 90.

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

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

1852 Luttrell, iv, 119, 120.

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