Repertory 97, fo. 496.

Repertory 97, fo. 503.

Negotiations were opened in the following year for acquiring the Grocers' Hall as a mansion house for the mayor for the time being.—Journal 52, fo. 14.

Luttrell, iii, 215, 216.

Id., iii, 218.

"Memoirs of Thomas Papillon," by A.F.W. Papillon (Guildhall Library), pp. 78-81.

Macaulay, chap, xviii.

Journal House of Commons, x, 655, 661.

This bribe appears to have failed, for notice was actually served on the company in April, 1692.—Luttrell, ii, 357, 433.

Journal House of Commons, x, 835.