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A39971	The Forfeitures of Londons charter, or, An impartial account of the several seisures of the city charter together with the means and methods that were used for the recovery of the same, with the causes by which it came forfeited, as likewise the imprisonments, deposing and fining the lord being faithfully collected out of antient and modern historys, and now seasonably published for the satisfaction of the inquisitive, upon the late arrest made upon the said charter by writ of quo warranto.		1682 (1682)	Wing F1557; ESTC R18801	24,150	37

suffered the Citizens to depart to their respective Habitations The morrow after there were sent into London from the King the Lord Latimer Sir Nicholas Bond Sir Simon Burly and Sir Richard Adderbury to give them a farther Confirmation of the Kings affection towards them and how that he had spoken to the Duke of Lancaster in their behalfs and that he had submitted himself in all things to the King touching their Cause and that it was the Kings pleasure they should do the like and then he would do his endeavour that an Honourable Agreement might be made on the behalf of the City When the Citizens heard this Message they were not well pleased by reason they knew that the King being young must do what was done by Substitutes and that the Duke being powerful at Court would not miss of finding favour yet notwithstanding they promised to submit themselves if so be the afore-mentioned Knights would undertake upon their Oath of Fidelity and Knighthood that they should not suffer either in Body or Goods which they consenting to the Chief Citizens went with them to Sheene where the young King was with his Mother the Duke of Lancaster and a great number of Nobility when the King knew they were come he caused them to be brought before him and in the full Assembly so handled the matter that the Duke and they entred into an intire Amity and perpetual Friendship and after that the Duke behaved himself so Courteously towards the Common people that all their former hatred was turned into Love and Good-will towards him And so much of the Citizens Reconciliation with the Duke of Lancaster and now to my purpose In the 15th Year of the Reign of King Richard the Second Anno. 1392. the Parliament then Sitting and not having concluded upon any speedy way of raising money the King to supply his present Occasions sent to the City to borrow the Summ of a 1000 pounds the which they not only uncourteously refused to lend him but likewise beat and grievously wounded a Lumbard who offered to supply him with the like Summ of which the King being advertized was greately displeased with the Citizens whereupon calling together most of the Peers and Noble men of his Kingdom he complained to them of the froward dealings of the Londoners and desired them to take notice of the Affront they had put upon him When the King had told them his mind the Lords after a short Conference about the matter gave Counsel That it was not only Expedient but very requisite that the Insolent Pride of those presumptious Persons should be speedily Repressed The Citizens of London as it appeareth in those days using their Authority to the utmost had devised and set forth divers Orders and Constitutions to abridge the Liberties of Forreigners that came to the City to utter their Wares which likewise caused great Complaints against them They in many particulars as some Writers affirm having stretched beyond their Bounds all which served but as Fuel to increase the Kings displeasure against them And now because I will omit nothing that may occasion any Objection It is not amiss to give the Reader another Relation though different from the former how the City fell into the Kings displeasure though it was Written by an unknown Author and therefore of what Credit I must leave to the judgement of the Reader many having rejected it as Fabulous and affirm that what is before mentioned was the real occasion that which was pretended being as followeth viz. That one of the Bishop of Salisbury's Servants meeting a Bakers Boy in Fleet-street took out of his Basket a Loaf and utterly refused to restore it again for which when the Boy became Clamorous he broke his head and gave him many blows upon his body which the Inhabitants perceiving they came together and would have taken the Bishops man in order to have conveyed him to Prison but that his Fellow-Servants hearing in what danger he was came to his Rescue and carried him by force into the Bishops house which was at that time in Fleet-street whereupon the multitude increasing they threatned to pull down the house unless the Offender was delivered up and had effected it had not the Mayor and Sheriffs with considerable number of Halberts come in time to appease them and oblige them to depart every man to his own House And that of this the Bishop being advertized made his Complaint to the King and for that cause says this unknown Author was it that the Citizens fell into the Kings displeasure but by this his conclusion it proved fictitious for he tells us that the Cities Charter upon that cause being taken away it was restored by the Intercession of Richard Gravesend and Bishop of London In acknowledgement of which the Citizens for a long time after repaired once a year to his Grave in the Middle Isle of St. Pauls Church c. But that is utterly false for at that time Robert Braybrook was Bishop of London the aforesaid Gravesend having been Bishop in the Reign of Edward the First Anno. 1303. almost 90 years before this time after whom succeeded him in the Bishoprick Ralph Baldock Gilbert Seagrave Richard Newport Stephen Gravesend Richard Went worth Ralph Stratford Michael Norbrook Simon Sudbury William Courtney and Robert Braybrook who sate Bishop 1381 until the year 1403. Moreover The place of Burial in St. Pauls whereunto the Mayor and Citizens of London were wont to repair was of William who sat Bishop of London in the time of William the Conqueror and of him purchased the Charter of the said City Having thus as I think cleared all Objections that might have been started as to the beginning of the Feud I shall proceed to relate what happened e're the Citizens could appease the Kings Anger After the Lords had given their opinions as is before recited the King commanded that the Mayor Sheriffs and several of the most wealthy Citizens should be Arrested and brought to Nottingham where on the 11th of June in the year aforesaid John Hind the Mayor was Deposed and sent to Windsor-Castle as likewise the Sheriffs one of them being sent to Wallingford-Castle and the other to Odam-Castle and the other Citizens to several adjacent Prisons there to continue till such time as the King with his Councel should determine what should be done in that Affair The Council had not long consulted about it before they Unanimously consented and determined that from thenceforth the Londoners should not chuse nor have any Mayor but that the King should appoint one of his Knights to Govern the City immediately under him and that their Priviledges should be Revoked their Liberties Disanull'd and their Laws Abrogated all which was accordingly done the King immediately appointing for Warden or Governour Sir Edward Darlingrug Impowering him not only to Rule the City but to see the Administration of Justice done in all Cases being stiled Lord Warden of the City and so continued for

THE FORFEITURES OF Londons Charter Or an Impartial Account of the SEVERAL SEISURES OF THE City Charter Together with the Means and Methods that were used for the Recovery of the same with the Causes by which it came forfeited as likewise the Imprisonments Deposing and Fining the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Sheriffs since the Reign of King Henry the Third to this present Year 1682. Being faithfully collected out of Antient and Modern Historys and now Seasonably Published for the satisfaction of the Inquisitive upon the late Arrest made upon the said Charter by Writ of Quo Warranto Printed for the Author and are to be Sold by Daniel Brown at the Black-Swan and Bible without Temple-Bar and Thomas Benskin in St. Brides-Church-Yard 1682. Since the Charter was granted to the Antient and Famous City of London by William the Conqueror Henry the Second and other Kings of this Realm we find several Inspections have been made into it and that at sundry times the Priviledges and Charter of the said City hath been taken away and suspended The Historical Relation of which as it is Recorded by the most Authentick of our English Writers Being now thought seasonable and useful is intended to be the Subject of this Treatise TO begin at the 50 year of the Reign of Henry the Third Anno Dom. 1265. Upon the Citizens taking part with the Earl of Leicester and the Barons against the King after the said Earl was Slain at the Battle of Eversham and the King again was restored to his Royal Dignities he began to call to mind how the Citizens had shut their Gates against him and succour'd his Enemies so that calling a Parliament at Westminster about the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin in the year aforesaid all the Statutes that had been made by the Parliament the Barons had Assembled at Oxford were Repealed and also all such as had favoured the Barons and were as then either in Prison or abroad should be disinherited It was also ordain'd and passed the Assent of both Houses that many of the Wealthiest Citizens of London should be cast into Prison and the City should be deprived of the Liberties and Priviledges that had been formerly granted and confirmed to them as likewise that all the Chains and Posts should be pulled up and taken away thereby to leave the Streets fenceless c. This was no sooner Enacted but put in Execution for the chief Citizens were Arrested and committed to Ward within the Castle of Windsor till they should pay such Fines as were demanded which was 300 pounds a peice at least whereupon the Liberties of the City pursuant to the said Act were suspended and the Tower of London fortified with Outworks for its better Security as likewise such Posts and Chains as had been brought out of the City were placed about the Defences in nature of Barracado's not long after another Parliament was called at Westminster wherein a great number of such as had been aiding to the Barons had their Lands confiscated which Lands the King no sooner seized but he gave them to such as had faithfully served him in the Wars so that a considerable number as well of Citizens as others were obleiged to Compound with such as had the Donation bestowed upon them Upon these and such like proceedings of the King the Londoners thought it their safest way to submit to the Kings Mercy and after long attendance and at the incessant Intreaties of such Noble Persons at Court as they could make their Friends they obtained a Pardon though many of the Commoners refused to joyne with the Mayor and Aldermen and other Wealthy Citizens therein being rather inclined to stand it out and held several Debates about defending the City against the King but their Resolutions in that affair were by most of the wisest sort held as pernicious and dangerous to the Peace and Tranquility of the Nation The reason that induced them to such obstinacy as most conjecture was because the City at that time was Inhabited by sundry Nations who during the Intestine Broils had been admitted as Citizens to defend the same but in the end all those Debates and Consultations came to no effect for when every Man had spent his Verdict it was thought the safest way to submit to the Kings Pleasure and consent to what he should think fit upon which Submission and a Fine of 20000 Marks the King received them again into his Favour and ordered that such Lands Houses and other things as had been Confiscated and not disposed of should be restored again to the Owners After which he did not deliver them the possession or keeping of the City as formerly but placed Sir Othon as Custos or Guardian of the same who was also Constable of the Tower he likewise chose to be Bayliffs or as they are now called Sheriffs John Adrian and Walter Henery Citizens The King proceeded yet farther and compelled the most substantial amongst them to give their Sons as Pledges or Hostages thereby to prevent any Revolt for the future which Pledges or Hostages he caused to be kept in the Tower of London and maintained at the Cost of their Parents as likewise by advice of his Counsel he constituted a Captain in every County now called by the name of Lord Lieutenant to suppress any Rebellion that might arise upon the distast of the unruly multitude The King having all this while continued in the City the better to have an Eye upon and keep in awe such as upon the aforementioned occasions were ever now and then ready to make Insurrections and upon his departure ordained Sir John Lind and John Waldren Governours in his Absence by the Names of Seneschals or Stewards but such earnest Suits were made by the Londoners to obtain a free Pardon that in the end after the said Guardians or Governours had taken sufficient Security for the payment of the Fine of 20000 Marks the King granted them his Charter of Pardon under the Great Seal and sent it them wherein he freely remitted and pardoned all Trespasses and offences that had been committed by them during the War only the Lands Houses Goods and Persons which he had given to Prince Edward his Eldest Son were excepted This Charter of Pardon and Restauration of the Cities Liberties Priviledges and Immunities was dated at Northampton in the 50 Year of his Reign Anno Dom. 1266. upon which the Senescal was discharged and the Citizens chose then for Mayor William Fitz Richards and for Sheriffs Thomas de la Fourd and Gregory de Rocksledge and had the mannagement of the City intire as ever so that Trade began to flourish and the Companies began to Incorporate but this happiness lasted not long for in the 52 year of the said King Henry the Third Anno Dom. 1267. The King being absent in the Country the Earl of Gloucester taking great displeasure for that he might not have his Will as well for Banishing of Strangers as for Restitution to