Howell, State Trials, xi, 431.
Repertory 85, fo. 224b.
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).
The lord mayor elect being Sir John Moore, who was much inclined to favour the court party.
Journal 49, fos. 254, 255b, 261b; Kennet, iii, 401.
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).
The address of the 19th May mentioned in the last chapter.
Luttrell, Diary, 7 July, 1681.
Luttrell, Diary, 29 Sept. (i, 129, 130).
The precise numbers were, for Moore 1,831 votes, Shorter 1,591, Gold 1,523.—Journal 49, fo. 251.