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<HEAD>A <HI>LETTER</HI> from a Country Gentleman, to an Eminent but Ea&s;y <HI>Citizen,</HI> who was unhappily mi&s;guided in the fatal Election of Sir <HI>John Moore</HI> for Lord Mayor of <HI>London,</HI> at <HI>Mi|chaelmas</HI> 1681.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My Old Friend;</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Shall never forget, and am confident that you cannot but re|member, the &s;erious Di&s;cour&s;e wherewith you entertained me at your Hou&s;e, in the Evening of that Black Day, when a packt Jury butcher'd that well-de&s;erving Citizen and Alderman, Mr. <HI>Corni&s;h,</HI> within &s;ight of <HI>Guildhall;</HI> you did then, with the high|e&s;t Sorrow, lament that Gentleman's Fall, and manife&s;ted a deep Abhorrence of your own Error, in giving your Vote to advance Sir <HI>John Moore</HI> to the Chair; to who&s;e unhappy Promotion you very feelingly and &s;en&s;ibly imputed the many Mi&s;chiefs which from that Day had befallen your Famous City, and in particular the &s;hedding that Innocent Blood, which to this Day cries for Vengeance.</P>
<P>Our long continued Friend&s;hip <HI>(dear Sir)</HI> will, I que&s;tion not, ju&s;tify me in pre&s;enting to your view at this time, &s;ome few of tho&s;e Melancholy Ob&s;ervations which you then made; and I do it to the end, that, &s;o far as in me lies, I may prevent your Relap&s;ing into your former Error of mi&s;placing your Vote, at the en&s;uing Election of <HI>a Lord Mayor.</HI></P>
<P>You remembred me (with a becoming Dete&s;tation of the Fact) of Sir <HI>John Moore</HI>'s notorious and impudent U&s;urpation upon your Anci|ent and Undoubted Rights, in ravi&s;hing from the City the Right of Electing <HI>Shariffs;</HI> this you aggravated, by noting that you were, with the dread of <HI>Pikes and Mu&s;quets,</HI> debarr'd and kept from your Right of Election; and that Sir <HI>John Moore,</HI> Sir <HI>William Prichard,</HI> Sir <HI>James Smith,</HI> with others of their Party, by their Warrant, brought a Body of Souldiers into the Hall; and commanded <HI>Lieutenant Colonel Quiney,</HI> who led them, to Affront, A&s;&s;ault, and Thru&s;t, not only Commoners, but even Six of your Aldermen out of the Hall; who (as you named them) I remember were, Sir <HI>Robert Clayton,</HI> Sir <HI>John Lawrence,</HI> Sir <HI>Pa|tient Ward,</HI> Sir <HI>Thomas Gold,</HI> Sir <HI>John Shorter,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Corni&s;h.</HI></P>
<P>You went on, minding me how &s;hamefully the Sheriffs, <HI>North</HI> and <HI>Rich,</HI> whom Sir <HI>John Moore</HI> in an Arbitrary and Ho&s;tile manner had impo&s;ed upon the City, packt Juries to de&s;troy Men; and in particu|lar the great and invaluable <HI>Lord Ru&s;&s;el,</HI> the lo&s;s of whom you &s;aid could never be &s;ufficiently lamented.</P>
<P>You al&s;o ob&s;erved, that from that fatal Day of Sir <HI>John Moore</HI>'s taking the Chair, we were to date all the Calamities which befel the City, and Kingdom al&s;o, to the Day of the late King's Abdication. And among&s;t many others, you reckon'd,</P>
<P N="1">1. The Di&s;&s;olution of the Ancient and Well-e&s;tabli&s;h'd Government of the City, by the bringing the <HI>Quo Warranto</HI> again&s;t your Charter.</P>
<P N="2">2. The making it <HI>a Riot</HI> in the Livery-Men to appear at <HI>Guild-Hall</HI> to Elect Sheriffs; and then packing a Jury of <HI>implacable and imbitter'd Tories,</HI> who were them&s;elves the only true Rioters, to find Mr. <HI>Pil|kington</HI> and Mr. <HI>Shute,</HI> (then <HI>Sheriffs</HI>) Sir <HI>Thomas Player,</HI> (your <HI>Cham|berlain</HI>) Mr. <HI>Bethel,</HI> Mr. <HI>Corni&s;h,</HI> Mr. <HI>Deagle,</HI> and many other eminent Citizens, guilty of a Riot, in a&s;&s;erting their Right to chu&s;e <HI>Sheriffs;</HI> and al&s;o the impri&s;oning the <HI>Sheriffs</HI> in the <HI>Tower</HI> for no other Crime.</P>
<P N="3">3. The tran&s;cendent Exorbitancy of the wicked Juries then re|turned; many In&s;tances whereof you laid before me, and remembred me that (be&s;ides the Murders which they committed) their unrigh|teous Verdicts drove Sir <HI>Patient Ward,</HI> Mr. <HI>Papillon,</HI> and many other Per&s;ons of great De&s;ert, into Exile. You further added, that their mad Zeal for the Intere&s;t of their Darling <HI>Popi&s;h Succe&s;&s;or,</HI> &s;pared no Rank nor Order of Men; in&s;tancing their giving up that Reverend and highly De&s;erving Divine, Mr. <HI>John&s;on,</HI> to be ignominiou&s;ly and barba|rou&s;ly whipp'd, for his hone&s;t and &s;ea&s;onable Oppo&s;ition to the Po|pi&s;h De&s;igns then on foot. Their finding that Grave and Pious Divine Mr. <HI>Baxter,</HI> guilty of a High Mi&s;demeanour, (as they call'd it) for no other Offence, than writing again&s;t <HI>the Pope</HI> and his <HI>Bi&s;hops,</HI> which by <HI>an accur&s;ed Innuendo,</HI> they made to intend the <HI>Bi&s;hops</HI> of the <HI>Church of England.</HI> You moreover ob&s;erved, how that they, upon every Oc|ca&s;ion where it was demanded, very prodigally gave 100000 <HI>l.</HI> Da|mages again&s;t private Per&s;ons; in&s;omuch that Sir <HI>Tho. Pilkington, Mr. Colt, Dr. Oates, Mr. Covert,</HI> and <HI>Mr. Culliford</HI> were made Debtors to the <HI>Duke of York,</HI> and his Pri&s;oners in Execution, for 500000 <HI>l.</HI> for only a&s;&s;erting and averring, that the Duke was de&s;igning to &s;ubject us to Popery and Slavery, or for Di&s;cour&s;es to that effect.</P>
<P N="4">4. You did not forget to expre&s;s your Dete&s;tation of the malicious Pro&s;ecution, and heavy Oppre&s;&s;ion of Sir <HI>Samuel Barnardi&s;ton</HI> and <HI>Mr. Wilmer,</HI> the Foremen of the two Grand Juries, which (as you well ob&s;erved) for a time, and till Sir <HI>John Moore</HI> was mo&s;t unhappi|ly advanc'd to the Chair, &s;tem'd the Villanous and Bloody De&s;igns of tho&s;e, who were about <HI>to Kidnap</HI> the good People of the&s;e three glori|ous Kingdoms to <HI>Rome.</HI> And that by returning <HI>Ignoramus</HI> upon the In|dictments again&s;t the <HI>Earl of Shaftsbury</HI> and <HI>Mr. Colledge,</HI> a Verdict which you &s;aid none but Men for&s;aken of common Sen&s;e and Hone&s;ty did complain of.</P>
<P>The&s;e <HI>(Sir)</HI> with abundance of other foul Facts which have &s;lip'd my Memory, you placed to Sir <HI>John Moore</HI>'s Account, and did with no &s;mall regret acknowledg, that by him the Banks of our Security were broken down, and that you, with a &s;ad Heart beheld the Tor|rent of Popery and Arbitrary Power carrying all before it.</P>
<P>Now as I am a&s;&s;ured <HI>(my good Friend)</HI> that you will agree that I do not mi&s;remember your Di&s;cour&s;e on that &s;ad Occa&s;ion of <HI>Alderman Corni&s;h's Murder;</HI> &s;o I doubt not but you will bear with me, in dealing with you, in relation to your next Election of <HI>a Lord Mayor,</HI> with that wonted Freedom and Plainne&s;s wherewith you and I have long con|vers'd.</P>
<P>I mu&s;t tell you, I plainly &s;ee that tho&s;e Men who carried us to the very brink of De&s;truction, are not only remor&s;le&s;s, but make it their bu&s;ine&s;s to act the &s;ame thing over again: How el&s;e comes it to pa&s;s, that they lately a&s;&s;umed the Confidence to &s;truggle for to make one of them&s;elves <HI>Alderman</HI> in <HI>Alder&s;gate Ward?</HI> how el&s;e happens it, that they are now exerting them&s;elves with more than ordinary Indu&s;try to bring Sir <HI>Jonathan Raymond,</HI> or Sir <HI>Peter Daniel</HI> to the <HI>Chair?</HI></P>
<P>It highly concerns you (Sir) I mu&s;t tell you, to be watchful again&s;t the Men, who encouraged and triumph'd in the <HI>Murders</HI> of late com|mitted among&s;t you; and who to this hour go on to palliate and ex|cu&s;e, if not to ju&s;tify them; Again&s;t the Men who overturn'd the Foundations of your Government; Again&s;t the Men who were fond of Va&s;&s;alage and Slavery to that degree, that they made Addre&s;&s;es of Thanks to King <HI>Charles</HI> II. for breaking two Parliaments in the com|pa&s;s of three Months, and promi&s;ed him to venture their <HI>Lives</HI> and <HI>Fortunes</HI> to maintain the Violation of the Con&s;titution of the Engli&s;h Government; Again&s;t the Men who cry'd up a <HI>Popi&s;h Succe&s;&s;or</HI> as the only means to pre&s;erve <HI>the Church of England.</HI></P>
<P>Now had I the honour of a Vote among&s;t you, fall as it would, I &s;hould be careful neither to place it upon any of the&s;e Men, nor where they place theirs, but going again&s;t them, &s;hould certainly conclude my &s;elf to be in the right; I &s;hould mo&s;t &s;urely vote for Men of undoubted Loyalty to the pre&s;ent Government, and who gave Demon|&s;tration thereof by a con&s;tant adherence to the Principles upon which it is founded, and by oppo&s;ition to tho&s;e wicked De&s;igns upon our Religion, Laws and Liberties, from which his mo&s;t Gracious Maje&s;ty came mo&s;t generou&s;ly and &s;ea&s;onably to &s;ave us. But to hold you no longer in Generals, I &s;hall proceed to di&s;cour&s;e you a little particularly about your en&s;uing Election, and &s;hall ob&s;erve this method in doing it.</P>
<P N="1">1. I &s;hall with an impartial regard to Truth, &s;peak a few words of Sir <HI>Jonathan Raymond</HI> and Sir <HI>Peter Daniel,</HI> who are recommended to your Choice.</P>
<P N="2">2. I &s;hall ob&s;erve who they are that &s;tickle for their Election. And,</P>
<P N="3">3. I &s;hall con&s;ider the plau&s;ible Pretence, which, by your Letter you tell me, is made u&s;e of on their behalf, <HI>viz. Their being next the Chair.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. To begin with Sir <HI>Jonathan</HI> (if that may recommend him to your Choice) I am at a certainty, that upon the day when my Lord <HI>Ru&s;&s;ell</HI> was tried, and after the <HI>murdering Jury</HI> had brought him in guilty, he came to the King's-head Tavern in <HI>Leaden-hall Street,</HI> and there rejoiced that his Lord&s;hip was convicted, and highly commended the Jury-men that found him guilty, and in his great Wi&s;dom de|clared them to be very hone&s;t Men.</P>
<P N="2">2. The then <HI>Lord-Mayor,</HI> (Sir <HI>Patient Ward</HI>) the <HI>Aldermen</HI> and <HI>Common-Council</HI> of the City, having (after the a&s;toni&s;hing Di&s;&s;olution of the <HI>Oxford</HI> Parliament) upon the 13th of <HI>May</HI> 1681, drawn up a <HI>Petition and Addre&s;s</HI> to the <HI>King,</HI> &s;etting forth <HI>the imminent danger of Popery, and its Encouragement from the hopes of a</HI> Popi&s;h Succe&s;&s;or, <HI>and praying that the King would call a Parliament to provide again&s;t the Mi&s;chiefs threatning the City and Kingdom.</HI> This <HI>Petition</HI> was carried to <HI>Wind&s;or</HI> by my <HI>Lord Mayor,</HI> Sir <HI>Robert Clayton</HI> and Sir <HI>George Treby</HI> the Recor|der: but they were di&s;gracefully rejected, and denied Acce&s;s to the <HI>King,</HI> when at the &s;ame time Sir <HI>William Turner</HI> and Sir <HI>John Moore,</HI> who carried <HI>a TORY ADDRESS, thanking the King for his Declaration</HI> (lately emitted to di&s;grace and vilify the two la&s;t Parliaments) <HI>and promi&s;ing to &s;tand by him in the Violation of the Laws, with their Lives and Fortunes</HI> were received and highly care&s;&s;ed.</P>
<P>The <HI>Petition</HI> of the <HI>Lord-Mayor, Aldermen and Common-Council,</HI> being afterwards upon the next <HI>Council-day</HI> (the 19th of <HI>May</HI>) carried to <HI>Hampton-Court,</HI> and there pre&s;ented; Sir <HI>Jonathan Raymond,</HI> with Sir <HI>William Prichard,</HI> Sir <HI>George Jefferies,</HI> and others of the <HI>Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Lieutenancy,</HI> came in Per&s;on, and in oppo&s;ition to the City-Peti|tion, pre&s;ented a Petition &s;etting forth, that <HI>they were infinitely &s;atisfied with the King's Declaration</HI> [which in truth was a Libel upon the two la&s;t Parliaments] <HI>and that they were manimou&s;ly re&s;olved to venture their Lives and Fortunes for him in oppo&s;ition to, and defiance of all Enemies and Oppo&s;ers of what Sect or &s;ort &s;oever.</HI> [Now the&s;e Gentlemen appearing in direct oppo&s;ition to, and defiance of the City-Petition, I leave it to the World to judg who are the <HI>Enemies and Oppo&s;ers,</HI> to whom they here bid <HI>Defiance;</HI> and whether this very Petition which a&s;&s;ured the King of <HI>the Sword of the City,</HI> was not an Invitation to the bringing the fatal <HI>Quo Warranto</HI> again&s;t the City <HI>Charter?</HI>]</P>
<P N="3">3. 'Tis notoriou&s;ly known what Endeavours were u&s;ed in the Mayoralty of Sir <HI>William Prichard,</HI> to have <HI>Tories</HI> only in the Govern|ment of the City; and it being found that in <HI>Bi&s;hop&s;gate-Ward,</HI> the Inhabitants had better &s;en&s;e than to choo&s;e <HI>Common-Council-Men</HI> of their &s;tamp, it was projected to divide the Ward, and to have only four of the fourteen Common-Council-Men which that Ward &s;ends, cho&s;en without, and the re&s;t within the Gate, where they knew that ex|cluding the Inhabitants without the Gate, they had a Strength to carry it to their Minds; and in particular to bring in that &s;plenetick bloody Tory <HI>Langham,</HI> one of <HI>Alderman</HI> Corni&s;h<HI>'s Jury,</HI> and <HI>Sir</HI> Jonathan Raymond<HI>'s Deputy and Director.</HI> For the accompli&s;hing this De&s;ign, Sir <HI>Jonathan</HI> being <HI>Alderman</HI> of that Ward, refu&s;ed to go to an Election upon St. <HI>Thomas</HI>'s Day, according to the U&s;age of the City, but adjourned the <HI>Ward-Mote</HI> for &s;everal days, and &s;o kept that Ward without Repre&s;entatives in the Common-Council, till an Act of Common-Council was pa&s;&s;ed to divide the Ward.</P>
<P N="4">4. Sir <HI>Jonathan Raymond</HI> was for the Surrender of the Charter; and was found, according to the be&s;t of his Capacity and Under&s;tanding, to be an officious Witne&s;s again&s;t the <HI>Sheriffs</HI> and other Citizens who were indicted for <HI>the Riot</HI> which Sir <HI>John Moore</HI> made at the Election of Sheriffs in 1682. Whether he &s;wore Truth or not, is be&s;t known to Sir <HI>Robert Clayton,</HI> who&s;e Evidence be contradicted.</P>
<P N="5"><PB REF="2" MS="y"> 5. He being at <HI>Turbridg</HI> this time twelve Month, his <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"></HI> was put up to preach before the Nobility and Gentry there, who omitting to pray for <HI>King William</HI> and <HI>Queen Mary,</HI> and not &s;o much as men|tioning <HI>King</HI> and <HI>Queen;</HI> a Per&s;on in great Authority reprimanded Sir <HI>Jonathan</HI> for it: and I am a&s;&s;ured that he tamely an&s;wer'd, he could not help it, <HI>his Wife &s;aid he was a good Man.</HI></P>
<P N="6">6. His Son Sir <HI>Jemmet Raymond</HI> keeps one <HI>Hart</HI> for his Chaplain in <HI>Bark&s;hire,</HI> who is <HI>a non-&s;wearing Par&s;on,</HI> and abdicated a Living at or near <HI>Ta<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">toe-Dean.</HI> This famous Sir <HI>Jemmet</HI> is al&s;o &s;o <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk">i<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">h con&s;ci<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">'d,</HI> that he pays double to the <HI>Poll-Bill</HI> rather than come in, according to the Direction of the Act, and take the Oath of Fidelity to their Maje&s;ties.</P>
<P>Sir <HI>Peter Daniel,</HI> as 'tis well known, was <HI>a pragnatical Spy</HI> upon the Court of Aldermen and the City, in the late Reigns, when the Court was carrying on the pernicious De&s;igns, whereof you have &s;ince felt the &s;ad Effects; and he, with that doughty Knight Sir <HI>William Dod&s;on,</HI> were the con&s;tant <HI>Tell-Tales</HI> and <HI>Intelligencers</HI> to that famous <HI>Plot-Secre|tary,</HI> Sir <HI>Leoli<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e Jenkins.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. King <HI>Charles</HI> II, having by the Aid of <HI>a pack of perjured Citizens</HI> overturn'd the ancient Government of the City, who but <HI>our</HI> Sir <HI>Peter</HI> mu&s;t (as a well approved In&s;trument for carrying on the Tyrannical De&s;igns of that Day) be <HI>the fir&s;t Sheriff of the King's Ap|pointment;</HI> and &s;o he was, under a Commi&s;&s;ion to execute the Office during Plea&s;ure, having ju&s;t before, when Sheriff of <HI>Surry,</HI> approved him&s;elf a fit State-Tool, in packing a Jury which gave the 800 <HI>l.</HI> Damages to <HI>Bol&s;worth</HI> again&s;t Alderman <HI>Vilkington.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. This our Sir <HI>Peter</HI> being one of the Governours of St. <HI>Thomas</HI>'s Ho&s;pital in <HI>Southwark</HI> (together with others) promoted and pre&s;en|ted an Addre&s;s to the late King <HI>James,</HI> declaring for Liberty of Con&s;cience to tho&s;e of that King's Per&s;wa&s;ion, without regard to any others.</P>
<P N="4">4. He was one of the Sheriffs which pack'd the Jury for the Murder of Col. <HI>Sidney:</HI> he was for the Surrender of the City-Charters. He being a Member of King <HI>James</HI>'s Parliament, voted the <HI>Militia</HI> u&s;ele&s;s, and to keep up a &s;tanding Army under the Command of Popi&s;h Officers. La&s;tly, being a &s;neaking Pro&s;titute to King <HI>James,</HI> he promi&s;ed him to comply in taking off the Te&s;ts and Penal Laws.</P>
<P>Sir, having thus hinted what &s;ort of Men you are invited to elect, I proceed to tell you who are the <HI>Sticklers</HI> that recommend them to you.</P>
<P>You will not fail of a <HI>Rawlin&s;on,</HI> a <HI>Langham,</HI> a <HI>Bedingfield,</HI> a <HI>Fo&s;ter,</HI> a <HI>Midglty,</HI> a <HI>Gilburn,</HI> a <HI>Withers,</HI> a <HI>Floyer,</HI> a <HI>Feltham,</HI> a <HI>Coles,</HI> a <HI>Genew,</HI> a <HI>Kemp,</HI> a <HI>Carpenter,</HI> an <HI>Ainge,</HI> a <HI>murdering Jury-man,</HI> a <HI>Charter-Be|trayer,</HI> in every Ward to promote this nece&s;&s;ary Work.</P>
<P>You will find a <HI>lying Doctor</HI> about <HI>Aldgate,</HI> running up and down, under pretence of <HI>a Circular Letter,</HI> and crying out, <HI>The Church, the Church; O the Church is betray'd into the hands of fal&s;e Loons!</HI></P>
<P>But above, and which is more than all, you will have <HI>tru&s;ty Roger,</HI> with his Di&s;ciples, engaging might and main in this great Point, e&s;pecially for <HI>good Sir Peter;</HI> for he was not a little proud of him when he was made <HI>Hangman to King Charles;</HI> for Proof whereof I mu&s;t entreat you to turn to two <HI>Ob&s;ervators,</HI> the fir&s;t, of <HI>May</HI> 20, 1682. <HI>Numb.</HI> 140, which in the Name of the the Tories &s;peaks thus: <HI>If it &s;hould plea&s;e God to &s;end us SEASONABLE SHERIFFS, and fair play for our Money, there are &s;et afoot &s;o many Titles in Competition for the Gallows, that it would be a hard matter to &s;ettle their Claims, and &s;ay who &s;hould go fir&s;t.</HI> Now what &s;ort of Men in his Opinion would make the&s;e <HI>&s;ea&s;onable hanging Sheriffs,</HI> you will find in his <HI>Ob&s;ervator</HI> of <HI>May</HI> 27, 1684. where, &s;peaking of the poor depre&s;&s;ed <HI>Whigs,</HI> he &s;aith, <HI>Prethee, wilt thou &s;et their</HI> Corni&s;h <HI>and</HI> Bethel, <HI>their</HI> Pilkington <HI>and</HI> Shute <HI>again&s;t Our</HI> NORTH <HI>and</HI> RICH, <HI>Our</HI> DANIEL <HI>and</HI> DASH|WOOD?&mdash;You here &s;ee (my Friend) this great Man's Opinion of Sir <HI>Peter Tell-tale,</HI> and in what Intere&s;t he was; 'tis <HI>Le-Strange's North</HI> end <HI>Rich, Le-Strange's Daniel</HI> and <HI>Da&s;hwood;</HI> the&s;e were his <HI>&s;ea&s;onable Sheriffs</HI> to hang Prote&s;tants; and you Citizens mu&s;t at your Peril, vote to the plea&s;ing this Te&s;ty Gentleman, le&s;t he at one time or other bring Vengeance upon your Pates; for he told you in his Book called <HI>Le-Strange's Apology,</HI> p. 48. That <HI>a Citizen's Skull is but a thing to try the Temper of a Souldier's Sword upon.</HI></P>
<P>I come now to the great Point, <HI>They are next the Chair, 'tis their Right: What! deny Succe&s;&s;ion in the right Line; No, no, it may not be.</HI></P>
<P>To this I &s;ay, this Argument can weigh only with the Advocates for <HI>a Popi&s;h Succe&s;&s;or;</HI> we well know how often, and how ju&s;tifiably the direct Succe&s;&s;ion, even of the Crown, has been pa&s;s'd over with|out regard: But to keep within the City, I &s;hall give you a modern In&s;tance or two, wherein the&s;e very Men I am talking of, have pa&s;s'd over the Alderman next the Chair. In the Year 1670, Sir <HI>Richard Ford</HI> was <HI>next the Chair,</HI> and according to the pre&s;ent pretence, ought to have taken it; but the City then pitch'd upon Sir <HI>Samuel Starling,</HI> a <HI>junior Alderman,</HI> and he was elected Mayor. And to come nearer home to the&s;e Men, who now &s;tickle for this <HI>Succe&s;&s;ion;</HI> was not Sir <HI>Peter Daniel</HI> as near the Chair this time twelve Month as he now is? yes, he was, and Sir <HI>Samuel Da&s;hwood</HI> was <HI>junior Alderman</HI> to him; neverthele&s;s without regard to it, they then put up and voted for Sir <HI>Samuel,</HI> and yet you are now called upon to vote for Sir <HI>Peter, becau&s;e he is next the Chair,</HI> tho the Charters of the City give you an undoubted Right and full Power to choo&s;e tho&s;e into the Chair whom you think fitte&s;t for the Office.</P>
<P>Now <HI>(my Good Friend)</HI> to draw to the Conclu&s;ion of a much lon|ger Letter than I intended you: Let me tell you, the&s;e things which you and I formerly di&s;cour&s;ed, and which I have now brought to your remembrance, ought to keep Men from running upon the &s;ame Shelves and Sands where formerly they were in danger to have peri&s;h'd; 'tis therefore to be hoped, that you and your fellow-Citizens will now ex|ert your &s;elves in this Election, as becomes <HI>Loyal Subjects</HI> and <HI>True Eng|li&s;h-men.</HI> Ble&s;&s;ed be <HI>God,</HI> you have not now the Power of <HI>Whitehall</HI> a|gain&s;t you; there's now no <HI>Se<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">tary Je<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">kins</HI> to tamper in your Electi|ons: You will not now be with&s;tood and awed in <HI>Guildhall</HI> any <HI>Mi|litary Power:</HI> There's now no Thunderbolts of <HI>Excommunication</HI> from <HI>Doctors Commons;</HI> No Sir <HI>T<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">omas Pi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">ld;</HI> No Writs <HI>de E<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk">o capiendo,</HI> to &s;trike a Terror into <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"></HI> them&s;elves: I will therefore hope that <HI>N<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk"> and Impudence</HI> &s;hall <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span">. 'Twas reported of Sir <HI>John M<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk"></HI> that he &s;hould declare that he would <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> and whether <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e &s;aid &s;o or not, mo&s;t &s;ure I am that he verified the Saying: and &s;hould you be &s;o &s;tupid in the City at this buy, as to place Sir <HI>Jo<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">than Ray|mond</HI> in the Chair, I will <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> that <HI>he will be</HI> LANGHAM, and not <HI>Pilkington</HI> or <HI>Stamp.</HI> 'Tis well known that Sir <HI>T<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">as Pilki<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">gto<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> was found to be a worthy and well-de&s;erving Magi&s;trate, and that Sir <HI>Tho. Stamp</HI> is mo&s;t de&s;ervedly intitled to the &s;ame Character; but <HI>he is to leave his Work to the Man that &s;hall be after him, and who know whether he &s;hall be a Wi&s;e Man or a Fool?</HI></P>
<P>We are made happy in the pre&s;ent Feign by an <HI>Act</HI> of <HI>Parliament,</HI> which hath declared, That <HI>it i<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> with t<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> Saf<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">t<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> a<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> W<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">fare of this Prote&s;tant Kingdom to be<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> by a P<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="4 letters">h P<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">ce , or a<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> King or Queen marrying a Papi&s;t: And it is the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span">, That e<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="4 letters"> &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">in Per&s;on &s;hall be EXCL&V;DED, and i<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> for<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span">.</HI></P>
<P>And is it not as incon&s;i&s;tent with the Safet<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> and Welfare of your <HI>Loyal Prote&s;tant City,</HI> to be govern'd by <HI>a Ja<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">bit<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> or by any Man who&s;e <HI>Wife</HI> is &s;uch? Let then your Vote <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e t<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> every <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> Per|&s;on; and may be be deemed uncapa<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">le of the Chair, how <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ar &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> ever he &s;tands to it. I remember 'twa<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Advice of Sir <HI>Roger L'E<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">ange</HI> about ten Years &s;ince, to his admiring H<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">rd o<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>T<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk">s</HI> not to lay out a Penny with the <HI>Whigs:</HI> I &s;hall not go al out to per&s;wade <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"></HI> to turn this upon that <HI>b<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">i<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">d &s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">fl<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;s Crew.</HI> I &s;ee no Harm in buying a pair of Gloves of <HI>a Tory,</HI> no nor in drinking a Gla&s;s of Wine in <HI>a T<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"> Tavern;</HI> but I affirm that it is of the highe&s;t import, that you Vote not with tho&s;e <HI>di&s;loyal Men;</HI> your Lives, <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> and E&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">tes, and which is more, your Religion, and the very Being and Support of the pre&s;ent Government is here concerned. And who knows what di&s;mal Con&s;equences it may bring with it, to lodg the great Tru&s;t we are talking of, in any one, merely becau&s;e he is <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">t t<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> Chair,</HI> without con&s;idering whether he de&s;erves it or not? <HI>T<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e Magi&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">acy of</HI> London <HI>will be &s;ure to fall into Good Hands, whe<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> ev<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">y Man &s;hall give his Vote for him he judges be&s;t and fitte&s;t for the place.</HI> I therefore entreat you upon this Occa&s;ion to con&s;ider,</P>
<P N="1">1. Which of the Candidates has given earlier, larger, and opener Proofs of his Zeal to the Government now, and to the Priviledges of the City when they were invaded, and at la&s;t overturn'd &s;ome Years ago.</P>
<P N="2">2. Con&s;ider their Wi&s;dom and Ability f<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">r &s;o great a Tru&s;t; their Zeal for their Country &s;hewed upon all Occa&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="4 letters">, and their firmne&s;s to the pre&s;ent Frame of Government &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ttled in <HI>E<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">land.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. Con&s;ider which of the two is mo&s;t in Favour with tho&s;e that are di&s;&s;atisfied with the Government, and to which of them it is they give their Votes, and let the&s;e Gentlement Votes determine yours: <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">r Male-contents</HI> will not give their Votes to him they take for the greate&s;t Friend of the two, to a Government they hate. That mu&s;t cer|tainly be the &s;afe&s;t Side in this juncture of Time, where mo&s;t of the Friends to the pre&s;ent Settlement rank them&s;elves; and of all People in the World, I &s;hould be lea&s;t inclinable to follow their Opinion in the choice of a Magi&s;trate, that in their Hearts are Enemies to them that fill the Throne.</P>
<P>Now to conclude, I know <HI>(my dear Friend)</HI> that your Temper and Moderation will incline you to cen&s;ure me, for the &s;eeming Har&s;hne&s;s wherewith I have now and then expre&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">'d my felt in this Letter, and for the frequent u&s;ing <HI>the Name of Tory;</HI> and I am con&s;cious that Names of Di&s;crimination and Reproach are o&s;&s;en&s;ive to the Ears of good Men: but the Men I have been talking of <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">loried in calling them|&s;elves <HI>Tories,</HI> and under that Name they acted all their Villanies I have recounted to you, and therefore they ought to have it. How|ever would they &s;atisfy the World of their Ing<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">nity and Repentance, their Crimes ought to be put into utter O<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">livi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">n; but &s;eeing they are attempting to play <HI>their old Game over again,</HI> and do full remain Impe|nitent, they are to be la&s;h'd, and are like to be told their own, when|ever they give provocation to it, how unkindly &s;oever they take it.</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>I am <HI>(dear Sir)</HI></SALUTE> <SIGNED>Your Affectionate Servant,</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><DATE>Sept. 17. 92.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>W. N.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>My dear Friend,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>I</HI> Thank you mo&s;t heartily for your &s;ea&s;onable Advice in your Letter of th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> 17th In&s;tant; and being now con&s;tantly ta<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"> up in attendi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">g the Bu&s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="4 letters"> of the Election of a Lord Mayor now at hand, I have only time to acknowled<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1+ letters"> that you have truly remembred t<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e Di&s;cour&s;e that pa&s;s'd b<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">tween us upon the Day when Alderman <HI>Corni&s;h</HI> was barbarou&s;ly M<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">rd<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">r'd; and I a&s;&s;ure you that I &s;hall not only with my utmo&s;t Indu&s;try atone for my Erro<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> i<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> Voting for Sir <HI>John Moore,</HI> but &s;hall keep your Letter by me, as I h<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">pe <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ery good Citize<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> will (to which end I put it forth in print) till a b<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">tter Hi&s;tory of the Villa|nous Practices which you have recounted, doth appear in the World; or til<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Repentance of the Criminals &s;hall give o<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ca&s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> to h<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ve it, and to put t<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="4 letters"> foul Facts into utter Oblivion. You &s;hall have an early Acco<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"> of our Suc|ce&s;s, from</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE>Sept. 22. 92.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your Obliged Servant, <HI>T. F.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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