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<HEAD>THE HUMBLE PETITION Of the LORD MAYOR, Aldermen, and Commons of the City of <HI>London</HI> in Common Council A&s;&s;embled, as it was Pre&s;ented to His Maje&s;ty In Council at <HI>Wind&s;or,</HI> upon <DATE><HI>Monday</HI> the 18th of <HI>June</HI> 1683.</DATE></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Together with the Lord Keepers Speech.</HEAD>
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<P>Publi&s;hed by His Maje&s;ties Special Command.</P>
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<OPENER>SHEWETH,</OPENER>
<P>_THat Your Petitioners are mo&s;t heartily and <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="9+ letters">lly &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="3+ letters">y for the Mi&s;-Government of this Your City of late Years, whereby the Ci|tizens have fallen under Your Maje&s;ties Di&s;plea&s;ure: Which oc|ca&s;ioned a <HI>Quo Warranto</HI> to be brought again&s;t them; &V;pon which Judgement hath bee Pronounced for Seizure of their Liber|ties and Franchi&s;es into Your Majesties Hands.</P>
<P>That Your Petitioners are deeply &s;en&s;ible of, and thankfully acknowledge the great Favour of this Opportunity of Application to Your Royal Grace, vouch|&s;afed them by means of Your Maje&s;ties not Requiring Judgement to be immediate|ly Entred thereupon.</P>
<P>And now con&s;idering this our di&s;tre&s;&s;ed condition, we humbly ca&s;t our &s;elves at Your Royal Feet, Imploring Your Princely Compa&s;&s;ion and Grace to be extended to this Your Ancient City, mo&s;t humbly begging Your Maje&s;ties Pardon for all our Offences.</P>
<P><HI>And we do in the Name of our &s;elves, and all the Citizens, humbly ten|der, and Pray Your Maje&s;ty to accept the mo&s;t Solemn Promi&s;es and A&s;&s;urances of Con&s;tant Loyalty and Obedience to-Your: Maje&s;ty, Your Heirs and Succe&s;&s;ors, and of our Regular and Dutiful Admini&s;tration of Your Government of this City for the future: Wherein we &s;ubmit our &s;elves to Your Maje&s;ties good Plea&s;ure, and humbly beg Your Ma|je&s;ties Commands and Directions: Which we will with all Humility and Thankfulne&s;s Obey.</HI></P>
<CLOSER>And Your Petitioners &s;hall ever Pray, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></CLOSER>
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<P>After the Reading of which Petition, The Lord Mayer, Aldermen, and Citizens were Commanded to withdraw; and being again called in, the Lord Keeper &s;pake to them as followeth.</P>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>My Lord Mayor,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Am by the Kings Command to tell you, That He hath con&s;idered the humble Petition of the City of <HI>London,</HI> where &s;o many of the pre&s;ent Magi&s;trates, and other Eminent Citizens are of undoubted Loyalty, and Affection to His Service, That for their &s;akes His Maje&s;ty will &s;hew the City all the Favour they can rea&s;onably de&s;ire.</P>
<P>It was very long before His Maje&s;ty took Re&s;olutions to que&s;tion their Charter: It was not the Seditious Di&s;cour&s;es of the Coffee-Hou&s;es, the Trea|&s;onable Pamphlets, and Libels dayly Publi&s;hed and Di&s;per&s;ed thence into all Parts of the Kingdom; the Outragious Tumults in the Streets, nor the Affronts to His Courts of Ju&s;tice could provoke Him to it.</P>
<P>His Maje&s;ty had Patience until Di&s;orders were grown to that height, That nothing le&s;s &s;eemed to be De&s;igned than a Ruine to the Government both of Church and State; For the Factious Party were not content with the Practice of the&s;e In&s;olencies, but endeavoured to have them publickly counte|nanced by the Magi&s;trates, and for that end in all Elections they &s;tickled to Chu&s;e the mo&s;t di&s;affected into Offices of the greate&s;t Tru&s;t in the Govern|ment, and carried them&s;elves with that Heat and Violence, that it was a Ter|ror to all &s;ober and di&s;creet Citizens; and the City was &s;o unhappily di|vided into Parties, That there was no likelihood it could return to good Or|der, &s;o long as the Factious retained any hopes of procuring the Election of Magi&s;trates of their own Party, for their Impunity.</P>
<P>It was high time to put a &s;top to this growing Evil. This made it Ne|ce&s;&s;ary for His Maje&s;ty to enquire into their Abu&s;e of Franchi&s;es, that it might be in His Power to make a Regulation &s;ufficient to Re&s;tore the City to its former good Government.</P>
<P>It was not for Puni&s;hment, but meerly for the Good of the City that He took this Cour&s;e.</P>
<P>And now the King hath obtained Judgement in a <HI>Quo Warranto,</HI> it is not His Intention to Prejudice them, either in their Properties or Cu&s;tomes. Nay, le&s;t the Entring a Judgment upon Record might have Con&s;equences Fa|tal to them, His Maje&s;ty was &s;o tender of them, That He cau&s;ed Mr. Attor|ney to forbear the &s;ame at pre&s;ent, that the City might have &s;ome time to con&s;ider their own Condition.</P>
<P><HI>My Lord,</HI><LB>
I mu&s;t needs &s;ay, The City hath not been well advi&s;ed to defer their Ap|plication to His Maje&s;ty thus long, even till the Court hath Pronounced Judgement; It had been done with a much better grace, if it had been more early.</P>
<P>His Maje&s;ties Affection to the City is too great to reject their Suit for that Cau&s;e.</P>
<P>But for that Rea&s;on you will have the le&s;s time to Deliberat upon the Par|ticulars the King doth require of you.</P>
<P>And indeed, There will be little need of Deliberation; For His Maje&s;ty hath re&s;olved to make the Alterations as few and as ea&s;ie, as may be con&s;i&s;tent with the good Government of the City, and Peace of the Kingdom. They are The&s;e;</P>
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<HI>His Maje&s;ty Requires your &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion to the&s;e Regulations;</HI></P>
<P>THat no Lord Mayor, Sheriff, Recarder, Common Serjeant, Town Clerk, or Coroner of the City of <HI>London,</HI> or Steward of the Burrough of <HI>South|wark,</HI> &s;hall be capable of, or admitted to the Exerci&s;e of their re&s;pective Of|fices, before His Maje&s;ty &s;hall have Approved them under His Sign Manual:</P>
<P>That if His Maje&s;ty &s;hall Di&s;approve the Choice of any Per&s;on to be Lord Mayor, and &s;ignifie the &s;ame under His Sign Manual to the Lord Mayor, or in default of a Lord Mayor, to the Recorder or Senior Alderman; The Ci|tizens &s;hall within one Week proceed to a new Choice: and if His Maje&s;ty &s;hall in like manner Di&s;approve the &s;econd Choice, His Maje&s;ty may, if He &s;o plea&s;e, Nominate a Per&s;on to be Lord Mayor for the en&s;uing Year.</P>
<P>If His Maje&s;tie &s;hall in like manner Di&s;approve the Per&s;ons cho&s;en to be Sheriffs, or either of them, His Maje&s;tie may appoint Per&s;ons to be Sheriffs for the en&s;uing Year, by His Commi&s;&s;ion, if He &s;o Plea&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>Neverthele&s;s, the Elections of the&s;e Officers may be according to the ancient &V;&s;age of the City, with the&s;e Re&s;trictions.</HI></P>
<P>The Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen may with leave of His Ma|je&s;tie, di&s;place any Alderman, Recorder, Common Serjeant, Town Clerk, Coroner of the &s;aid City, and Stewart of the &s;aid Burrough.</P>
<P>Upon Election of any Alderman, if any of the Per&s;ons that &s;hall be pre|&s;ented to the Court of Aldermen by the Ward &s;hall be adjudged unfit, upon &s;uch Declaration by the &s;aid Court, the Ward &s;hall proceed to the Choice of other Per&s;ons in the room of &s;uch <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="3+ letters">|ed: and if the &s;aid Court <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 word"> di&s;approve &s;uch Second Choice, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span"> appoint any others in their room.</P>
<P>The Ju&s;tices of the Peace to be by the Kings Commi&s;&s;ion, which His Ma|je&s;ty will grant according to the u&s;ual method, unle&s;s upon Extraordinary Occa&s;ions, when His Haje&s;tie &s;hall think it nece&s;&s;ary for His Service.</P>
<P>The&s;e Matters are to be Settled in &s;uch manner as &s;hall be Approved by His Maje&s;ties Attorney and Solicitor General, and Councel Learned in the Law.</P>
<P><HI>My Lord Mayor,</HI><LB>
The&s;e Regulations being made, His Maje&s;tie will not only Pardon this Pro|&s;ecution, but Confirm your Charter in &s;uch manner as may be Con&s;i&s;tent with them.</P>
<P>The City &s;hould Look upon this as a great Conde&s;cention on His Maje&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">es part; it being but in the Nature of a Re&s;ervation of a &s;mall part of what is already in His Power by the Judgment: and of tho&s;e things which will Conduce as much to their own Good and Quiet as to His Service.</P>
<P>If the City &s;hould Look upon it with another Eye, and neglect a &s;peedy Complyance, yet His Maje&s;tie hath done His part, and Demon&s;trated His Affection to the City, by giving them this Opportunity.</P>
<P>And if there &s;hall be any heavy Con&s;equence of this Judgment, which it will behove you well to Con&s;ider, The fault will lie at their Doors, in who&s;e power it now is, to bring this Affair to a happie Conclu&s;ion.</P>
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<HI>My Lord Mayor;</HI><LB>
The Term draws toward an end, and <HI>Mid&s;omer-day</HI> is at hand, when &s;ome of the Officers u&s;e to be Cho&s;en, whereof His Maje&s;tie will Re&s;erve the Ap|probation; Therefore it is His Maje&s;ties Plea&s;ure that you return to the City, and Con&s;ult the Common Council, that He may &s;peedilie know your Re&s;o|lutions hereupon, and accordingly give His Directions.</P>
<P>That you may &s;ee the King is in Earne&s;t, and the Matter is not capable of Delay, I am Commanded to let you know, He hath given Order to His Attorney General to Enter Up Judgment on <HI>Saturday</HI> next, unle&s;s you pre|vent it by your Compliance in all the&s;e particulars.</P>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Re-printed by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printed to H<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> mo&s;t Sacred Maje&s;tie; <HI>Anno DOM.</HI> 1683.</P>
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