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A33190 The city of Londons loyal plea, or, A rational stating the case concerning the election of sheriffs for the city of London and county of Middlesex 1682 (1682) Wing C4358; ESTC R15375 5,089 8

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THE CITY of LONDONS LOYAL PLEA OR A Rational stating the CASE CONCERNING The Election of Sheriffs FOR THE CITY of LONDON AND COUNTY of MIDDLESEX Read seriously Judge not rashly LONDON Printed for Randal Taylor near Stationers Hall 1682. TO THE CITIZENS OF THE HONOURABLE CITY OF LONDON WORTHY SIRS SInce that the Election of Sheriffs hath unhappily been the Bustle and common talk of the Town and that several Papers and Books have been written and dispersed which tend to nothing else but the exasperating of Passions widening our Breaches and extinguishing Christian and Brotherly Love I do therefore humbly appear as Moderator And with your Pardon presume to present you with A Chain of Particulars which when duly and calmly considered will serve I hope to accommodate our present Differences and restore us to a right understanding It is no great matter what Party the Writer is of But this I assure you that he is one who delights to discern and distinguish between Truth and Errour and very much loves to reconcile Enemies and heartily prays for the welfare and increase of all honest and loyal men in the honourable City of LONDON SEVERAL PARTICULARS Offered to all VNBIASSED and INTELLIGENT CITIZENS THe City of Londons Corporation constituted by several Grants from the Kings of England consists of a Lord Major Commonalty and Citizens or of a Lord Major Barons and Citizens The Prime and Principal part of which Royal constituted Corporation is the Lord Major And the Barons or Commonalty and Citizens of London in conjunction with the Lord Major makes up the whole Corporation The Lord Major as the Prime and Supreme part of Londons Corporation Cites Summons Convenes Calls and Assembles the Commonalty and Citizens of London according to Custom and the emergencies and exigencies of the Cities Affairs And the Barons Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London have always time out of mind appeared met and assembled in obeysance to his Lordships precept and appointment The Election of Sheriffs for the City of London and County of Middlesex as all the Charters rehearsed in the City Plea say is by Royal Grace and Bounty granted to the Lord Major Barons Commonalty and Citizens of London In all which Royal Grants concerning the Election of Sheriffs pray observe that the Lord Major is first named and must be at least equally concerned with the Commonalty and Citizens of London in the Election of Sheriffs And as the Lord Major by himself is not Londons Corporation without the Commonalty and Citizens so the Commonalty and Citizens is no Corporation without a Lord Major For no man can be a Lord Major that is not a Citizen and a Citizen when made Lord Major is the Prime and principal part of Londons Corporation These Premises being duely considered and granted it will then follow that the Sheriffs elected by the joint consent of the Lord Major Commonalty and Citizens of London are but under the KING Servants to the Electors and consequently can have no Power Authority and Jurisdiction over them that elected them but what the Common-Law allows and the City Charter grants Now in all the Common-Law and in all the City Charters there is no Usage Custom Priviledge Power or Authority given to the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex for to Cite Summon Call Convene and Assemble the Lord Major Barons Commonalty and Citizens of London to nominate and chuse two Sheriffs for the said City and County for the Year ensuing And therefore if by Common-Law and City-Charters the Sheriffs cannot call convene and constitute a Court then certainly the Sheriffs if concerned at all in that Court are but ministerial Officers and no ways Managers or Judges of Affairs transacted in it The Cities great Court called the Hustings is not now and never was allowed to be a Court without a Lord Major and six Aldermen at the least opening of it and sitting in it And though it may be sometimes the County Court yet in the memory of Man it was never known that any Sheriffs did offer to keep it as the County Court without six Aldermen at the least sitting and the Lord Major presiding in it Therefore for any Sheriffs to call the Hustings their Court because it is the County Court and to manage order and appoint the Affairs thereof without a Lord Major and six Aldermen is perfectly illegal arbitrary as being against Law Usage Custom City-Grants and all Presidents in Good and Regular Times If the Lord Major hath not a greater ye the hath an equal Power with the Barons Commonalty and Citizens of London in the electing of Sheriffs because as the City Plea says the Election is given to the Lord Major Commonalty and Citizens of London By which it plainly appears That the Lord Majors Vote and consent is as necessary to the Election of Sheriffs as the Vote and consent of the Commonalty and Citizens And if there be not a joint concurrence and consent of both Lord Major and Commonalty there can be no man elected Sheriff For all the Charters which impower the Commonalty and Citizens of London to chuse two Sheriffs do also nominate appoint and constitute the Lord Major as the Prime and principal Person to be concerned in the Election For mutual concord and agreement therefore between these two parts of the Corporation It may be rationally presumed that the Commonalty and Citizens of London did in a complying respect and honour to the Lord Major allow him the nominating of one person and reserve to themselves the nominating another person for the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex And look who was the person or persons nominated and presented by each one to another he or they was by the Lord Major and Citizens jointly approved and confirmed And that this Presumption is rational may begathered from the usual practice of both parts of the Corporation in this matter The first part of the Corporation as I said before is the Lord Major Now He time out of mind the great Argument in the Cities Plea did ever nominate a Sheriff for the Year ensuing by the Ceremony of Drinking to him by Name in some certain place and before several Witnesses And the time of this Naming a Sheriff by Drinking to was a Week or Weeks before Midsummer Day Upon which Midsummer Day that followed that Drinking to the Barons Commonalty and Citizens of London were by the Lord Majors Precept called and assembled for the Election of two Sheriffs for the year ensuing And when they were so assembled the first person that was nominated and presented to the Common Hall to be elected Sheriff was the man whom the Lord Major had drank to by the Name or Title of Sheriff before that Midsummer Day And the Common Hall have time out of mind constantly accepted approved and confirmed that very person for Sheriff which was presented to them by the Lord Major And on the other side When the Commonalty and Citizens of London assembled in Guild-hall