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<HEAD><HI>A Common Council holden the</HI> 29. <HI>of</HI> Decemb. 1659.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To this Common Council was pre&s;ented a Report by Alderman <HI>Fowke;</HI> as followeth.
<HI>At the Committee of Common Council,</HI> &amp;c.</HEAD>
<OPENER>VOTED,</OPENER>
<P><LABEL>1.</LABEL> THat this Committee conceive the City of <HI>LONDON</HI> is at this time in imminent
and extraordinary danger.</P>
<P><LABEL>2.</LABEL> That they Judge it ab&s;olutely nece&s;&s;ary at this time for the Court of Common
Council to put this City forthwith in a po&s;ture of Defence.</P>
<P><LABEL>3.</LABEL> And in order thereunto, That the Maior, Aldermen and Common Council, &s;ettle &s;ix Regi|ments
of Trained Bands, with their re&s;pective Commanders and Officers.</P>
<P><LABEL>4.</LABEL> That the naming of tho&s;e Commanders and Officers be left to the Lord Maior, Aldermen
and Common Council.</P>
<P>That the &s;aid Commanders and Officers Commi&s;&s;ions &s;hall be under the common Seal of the
City, to be &s;ealed in open Court before the Maior, Aldermen and Common Council.</P>
<P>Touching the Letters received from <HI>Port&s;mouth</HI> &amp; the Fleet, The Opinion of the Committee <HI>is,</HI>
That &s;everal Commi&s;&s;ion^r^s&punc; be forthwith appointed to confer with the L. <HI>Fleetwood,</HI> with Sir <HI>Ar|thur
Ha&s;lrig, Col. Morley,</HI> and Col. <HI>Walton,</HI> and with Vice-Admiral <HI>Law&s;on,</HI> and other Officers of the
Fleet, in order to the &s;afety of the City and the Peace and Settlement of the Nation, and in due
time to give an An&s;wer to General <HI>Moncks</HI> Letter.</P>
<P>That in order to the obtaining of that Peace and Safety, the Common Council do impower
tho&s;e Commi&s;&s;ioners to propound the convening of a Free Parliament according to a late Declara|tion
of this Court.</P>
<P><HI>Voted,</HI> That the&s;e Votes be Reported to the Common Council by Alderman <HI>Fowke.</HI></P>
<P>Which Report being read and every part thereof &s;everally debated, was by this Court confir|med
and approved of, &s;aving the right of the Court of Aldermen.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><LIST>
<HEAD>Appointed Commi&s;&s;ioners to confer with Vice-Admiral <HI>Law&s;on.</HI></HEAD>
<ITEM>Alderman <HI>Fowke.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Mr.</HI> Richard Ford.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Will. Bateman, <HI>E&s;q.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><LIST>
<HEAD>approved Commi&s;&s;ioners to confer with Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;trig,</HI> &amp;c.</HEAD>
<ITEM>Alder. <HI>Tomp&s;on.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Col. <HI>Bromfield.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Maximil. Beard.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><LIST>
<HEAD>appointed Commi&s;&s;i. to confer with the L. <HI>Fleetwood</HI> and the Speaker.</HEAD>
<ITEM>Alder. <HI>Bateman.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Will. Vincent,</HI> E&s;q. &amp;</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Jolly, <HI>E&s;q.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
<DIV2 TYPE="instructions">
<HEAD>Inr&s;tuctions for the Commi&s;&s;ioners.</HEAD>
<P>To acquaint them that this Court hath received their Letters, and do return thanks for their good Expre&s;&s;ions
touching the Peace and Welfare of the Nation.</P>
<P>To acquaint them what the Court hath re&s;olved for the peace and &s;afety and the City.</P>
<P>And in pur&s;uance of the Declaration of <HI>Decem.</HI> 20. to confer of the be&s;t way to &s;ettle the Nation in a way of Free
<HI>Parliament,</HI> and to offer what they conceive conducing thereunto, and to mediate agreement and peace between all
parties in order to a Free <HI>Parliament.</HI></P>
<P>And the Commi&s;&s;ioners impowered to confer with the re&s;pective parties in any place or places they &s;hall &s;ee fit, And
to report to this Court.</P>
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<HEAD><DATE>Decemb. 24. 1659.</DATE> Ordered that the Chains and Po&s;ts be Set up.</HEAD>
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<ITEM><LIST>
<HEAD>cho&s;en the Colonels of the &s;ix
Regiments of Trained-bands to be rai&s;ed by this City.</HEAD>
<ITEM>Ald. <HI>Robin&s;on.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ald. <HI>Bateman.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ald. <HI>Laurence.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ald. <HI>King.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ald. <HI>Bolton.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ald. Wale.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><LIST>
<HEAD>Green</HEAD>
<ITEM>Lieut. col. Tasker</ITEM>
<ITEM>Major Kilby.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Cap. Win&s;tanley.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Cap. Wil. Keane.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Cap. Hu&s;&s;ey.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Cap. Bluncken.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><LIST>
<HEAD>Red</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>Lieu. col. Cleggat</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Major Stanyon.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>cap. <HI>Locke.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>cap. <HI>Lee.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>cap. <HI>Chee&s;e.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>cap. <HI>I. Swale.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
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<HEAD>Setting up the Po&s;ts and Chains to be forborn.</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM><LIST>
<HEAD>White</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>Lieutcol. Taylor.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Major Greenhill.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>cap. <HI>Cooke</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>cap. <HI>Ma&s;&s;ey.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>cap. <HI>Hud&s;on.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>cap. <HI>Smart,</HI> Jun.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><LIST>
<HEAD>Orange</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>Lieu. col. Al&s;oppe</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Major Pinkney,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>cap. <HI>Th. Bo&s;tocke.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>cap. <HI>Andrews.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>cap. <HI>Day.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><LIST>
<HEAD>Blew</HEAD>
<ITEM>Lieut. Coll. Cox</ITEM>
<ITEM>Major Earely</ITEM>
<ITEM>Richard Ford</ITEM>
<ITEM>Peter Houblon</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thomas Bonfoy</ITEM>
<ITEM>Robert Fi&s;her.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><LIST>
<HEAD>Yellow</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>Lieut. Col. Hind.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Major Neale.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>cap. Fawne.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Cap. Bolt.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Cap. Walton.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>cap. Colche&s;ter.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>Decemb. 27. 1659.</DATE> </DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>Alder: Fowke and Commi&s;&s;ioners to Vice-Admiral Law&s;on made a report of their Conference. A Committee appointed to attend the <HI>Parliament</HI> with a Petition, which after the report was given by the Com|mi&s;&s;ioners
from <HI>Port&s;mouth;</HI> the Common Council then thought it not nece&s;&s;ary to Petition.</P>
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<HEAD>The Names of the Committee appointed for regulating the Mili<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter">ia of the City of London.</HEAD>
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<ITEM><HI>Tho. Aleyn</HI> L. Maior.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir <HI>Tho. Atkin.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir <HI>Tho. Foot.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Alder. <HI>Fowke.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir <HI>Tho. Vyner.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Alder. <HI>Thomp&s;on.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ald. <HI>Robin&s;on.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ald. <HI>Bateman.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ald. <HI>Laurence.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ald. <HI>King.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ald <HI>Boulton.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ald. <HI>W<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter">le.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The two Sheriffs <HI>pro tempore.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Col. <HI>Bromfeild.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Rich. Ford.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Major Chamberline.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Will. Bateman</HI> E&s;q.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Will. Vincent</HI> E&s;q.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>John Jolley</HI> E&s;q.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Major Taylor,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>a<HI>Will. Antrobus,</HI> E&s;q.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Deputy Steyne,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Myn,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Theof. Biddolph</HI> E&s;q&punc;</ITEM>
<ITEM>Capt. <HI>Story,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Deputy John&s;on,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Sanders,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Tho. Bloodworth</HI> E&s;q.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Maximilian Bard</HI> E&s;q.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Major <HI>Cox.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Major <HI>Earley.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Major <HI>Al&s;opp.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dep. <HI>Lenthall.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Col. <HI>Gower.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Peter Mil<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">s.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Penning.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Capt. <HI>Clegatt.</HI></ITEM>
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