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The State of the city of London, and their humble desires upon the bill for restoring their charters and liberties
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1690
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Wing S5316B; ESTC R42892
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Liberties Lands and Goods of the whole Body-Corporate 6. Q. Whether it be agreeable to the Proceedings of Parliament or consistent with the English Liberty to determine by this Bill the Interests claimed by the present Magistrates and Common-Council of the City in their Offices and Places without any Offence alledged against them whilst they insist to have the common Liberty of all the Subjects of England to maintain their Interests and Authorities in due Course of Law against any that shall legally bring the same into question 7. Q. Whether in case this Bill should pass into a Law it doth not amount to a Declaration of the Law in all the Cases wherein this Bill affirms the said Judgment to have had any Force or Effect against the Corporation of the City whereby the Law in Westminster-Hall will be changed exceedingly This Case and Judgment being altogether new never heard of or imagined before the treasonable Designs in the late Reigns to subvert the Ancient Laws and Government of the Kingdom 8. Q. Whether the Information in the Nature of a Quo Warranto c. all the Proceedings on the Kings part against the City and the several pernicious Opinions of the Judges about the Case and the Pleadings therein remaining on Record and in no sort condemned in this Bill the Judgment only being declared illegal without any Cause rendred Whether all those Records will not be taken for such Precedents in future Ages as may be of dreadful Consequence to the City and the whole Kingdom 9. Q. Whether upon the whole matter the said Information and Judgment be not absolute Nulities in Law and ought for the Security of the City and Kingdom to be taken out of all Rolls Files and Records that no Memory may be had of such illegal and pernicious Proceedings That hath been usually practiced by Parliaments in Cases of the like Nature and of such dangerous Consequence The Citizens that moved these Questions humbly offered also to their Lordships That this Bill makes void the Elections of all the Common-Council-men chosen legally under their Present Majesty's Government by the Inhabitants of the Wards and yet confirms all the Officers put into Places illegally by the late King James his Commissioners And also all the Livery-men put in arbitrarily by that King's Will and Directions of the Lord Jefferies Mr. Graham and Burton They also put their Lordships in mind That this Bill that in the beginning allows the said Judgment to have dissolved the Corporation yet in a Proviso allows it to be a Corporation whereof there is a present Mayor and Sheriffs which shall continue untill a new Election be made of such Officers And if they have not Legal Authority by their Election to act as Mayor and Sheriffs there is none given them in the Proviso by saying only they shall continue Whereby all the present Authorities are in such uncertainty that it will not be known if the Bill should pass who hath any Authority to cause any Elections to be made and to preside in them They offered many other things needful for the City 's Settlement which are wholly omitted in the Bill in respect of the Orphans and the Administration of Justice But above all other matters they earnestly intreated divers Lords That the Opinion of all the Judges upon the Substance of these Questions foregoing might be taken in Writing for the satisfaction of their Lordships and the Kingdom The Case being altogether new and numberless Consequences not foreseen to be drawn from it in the proeeeding of Judgments in Law Whatsoever shall be the issue of their Endeavours they have acquitted themselves of their Duty and shall humbly acquiesce therein if the Bill shall pass into a Law FINIS Published May 24 1690