Luttrell, i, 192, 195, 196.
Journal 49, fo. 336.
Journal 49, fo. 317.
Luttrell, Diary, 25 and 30 June, 1682 (i, 197, 200).
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).
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.
Repertory 87, fo. 209b; Luttrell, Diary, 13 July (i, 205, 206).
.Cf. Repertory 87, fo. 209b.
"The Domestick Intelligence" (Tracts A* No. 18).—Luttrell Diary, 15 July, 1682 (i, 206).
Repertory 27, fos. 212, 214.