Journal 41, fo. 2b; Whitelock, p. 413. Proceedings of Council of State, 3 July.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1649-1650), p. 220.
Council of State to mayor, 11 Aug.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1649-1650), p. 273.
Repertory 59, fo. 476; Journal House of Commons, vi, 287.
Cal. State Papers Dom. (1649-1650), pp. 287-288.
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.
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.
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.
"A discourse betwixt Lieut.-Col. John Lilburne and Mr. Hugh Peter, 25 May, 1649."—Lilburne Tracts (Guildhall Library), vol. iv.
"An Outcry of the Young Men and Apprentices of London, 22 Aug., 1649."
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.