London and the Kingdom - Volume 2 / A History Derived Mainly from the Archives at Guildhall in the Custody of the Corporation of the City of London.

by Reginald R. Sharpe

Pepys, 11 April.

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.

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

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

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

Journal 41, fo. 231b.

Diary, 16 May.

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

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.

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