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<HEAD>Aleyn <FIGURE>
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</FIGURE> Mayor.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>At a Common Councel holden in the Guildhall
London, on <DATE>Tue&s;day the 20^th of December, 1659.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_THis Court having taken notice of divers Affronts put upon
the Right Honourable <HI>Thomas Aleyn,</HI> the pre&s;ent Lord-Mayor
of this City with many fal&s;e and &s;candalous A&s;per|tions
ca&s;t upon his Lord&s;hip, and the Committee appoin|ted
by this Court to confer with the Lord <HI>Fleetwood</HI> tou|ching
the Peace and Safety of this City: as if they had
de&s;erted their Tru&s;t, or betrayed the Rights and Liber|ties
of this City, And in particuler, that the &s;aid Commit|tee
&s;eemed &s;atisfied withthe Limitations of Parliament,
called the &s;even Principles or unalterable Fundamentals,
printed in a late &s;candalous Pamphlet &s;tiled <HI>The Publick
Intelligencer;</HI> The &s;aid Committee here openly declaring that they never heard the
&s;aid Principles, or had them any way Communicated to them, much le&s;s ever Con&s;en|ted
to the &s;ame or any of them.</P>
<P>This Court being deeply &s;en&s;ible of the&s;e great Indignities, doth declare, That the
&s;aid Lord-Mayor is &s;o far from de&s;erving any of the &s;aid Affronts or A&s;pertions, that
he hath highly merited the great Honour and E&s;teem of this Court and the whole City,
having in all things demeaned him&s;elf with much Prudence and faithful Integrity to
this City and Court, which doth therefore return his Lord&s;hip their mo&s;t hearty
thanks.</P>
<P>And that the &s;aid Committee in all their Tran&s;actions, touching the Peace and
&s;afety of this City, have al&s;o di&s;creetly and faithfully di&s;charged their tru&s;t, to their
own trouble and great &s;atisfaction of this Court.</P>
<P>And whereas this Court and City hath been lately repre&s;ented by &s;ome, as ha|ving
de&s;erted their fir&s;t Cau&s;e and Declarations for their taking Armes or joyn|ing
with the Parliament in defence of the City or the Commonwealth: This Court
doth declare that they &s;till doe, and with Gods a&s;&s;i&s;tance alwayes will adhere to their
former Principles &amp; Declarations in the u&s;e of all Lawfull meanes for the maintenance
of the true reformed Prote&s;tant Religion according to the Scriptures; The &s;upport
and maintenance of a &s;ettled lawfull Magi&s;tracy, a learned pious Mini&s;tery and pub|lick
Univer&s;ities, with the antient fundamental Laws of the Nation, Iu&s;t Rights, Pro|perties
and Liberties of all per&s;ons: And for the&s;e ends will endeavour, all they law|fully
may the &s;peedy convening of a Free Parliament to fit and Act without Interrup|tion
or Mole&s;tation, by any per&s;ons what&s;oever.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Sadler.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>Printed by <HI>James Fle&s;her</HI> Printer to the Honourable City of <HI>London,</HI> 1659.</P>
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