Journal 49, fo. 178.
There is a hiatus in the Common Hall books from 1661 to 1717.
"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).
North's Examen, pp. 101-2; Burnet, ii, 281, note.
Speech of Sir Robert Clayton in the House, 25 March.—Parliamentary Debates (Grey), v, 305.
Printed in "Tracts K" (No. 43), in the Guildhall Library.
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).
Luttrell. Diary, 13, 19 and 20 May, 1681 (i, 84, 87, 88).
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.
Luttrell, Diary, 8, 12 and 24 July and 17 Aug. (i, 108, 109, 110, 112, 117).