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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58915	A seasonable caution to all loyal subjects, against antimonarchical principles in an answer to a pretended petition of the Common Hall, in London, assembled on Midsummer Day last, to the Honourable House of Commons : which is designed for a vindication of the Common Hall, as innocent of the affront and indignity thereby offered, by some ill-minded persons in their name, to the supreme authority.		1690 (1690)	Wing S2218; ESTC R13157	5,776	4

Christian Profession This is the only way to promote the Honour and Reputation of our National Church and the Religion established by Law among us whose Foundation is not laid in Hypocrisie and aspiring Dominion under a Disguise of Religion to delude and ensnare the Honest and Well meaning to side with us after the example of our Adversaries whose Designs as they have been so they still are to undermine and subvert the Government Therefore let us countermine them in amendment of our lives to cr●dit this our Holy Religion which needs no other Reformation but that of Manners in its Members according to its pure and wholesome Doctrine and Discipline And as the Honourable House of Commons have by their Impartial Votes declared those who invaded Charters c. and those who endeavoured to take off the Penal Laws and the Test c. to be equal Transgressors though we are satisfied the Major part on either side might have had no such corrupt intention as may render them Criminals but rather acted by awe influence or misguidance of others So let us consider each other as Christians and learn the Discipline of Self-Denial after our Redeemer's example to be more ready to forget and forgive than Devil like to recriminate and revenge and rake into each others Follies and Faults tormenting only to be tormented thereby provoking one another and God's vengeance on us all when it is the duty of every one For who hath so acted as not to need it rather to labour after and press for an Healing Act of Indempnity and Woe be to them that have hitherto hindred it as the only means to unite our Divisions in these our greatest dangers and to support our Religion Law and Liberties as the surest Bulworks against our Common Enemies Here follows the said printed Paper and pretended Petition so published in the Name of the Common-Hall A true Account of the Proceedings of the COMMON-HALL at the Election of Officers for the Year Ensuing held at the Guild-Hall of the City of London June 24. 1689. As also the Petition of the Citizens of London to the Commons of England assembled in Parliament ABout Eleven a Clock on the said Day the Hall being full of the Liveries of the respective Companies the Lord Mayor and the Court of Aldermen proceeded to the Hustings where after a Proclamation for Silence made by the Common Cryer there was a Speech made by the Deputy-Recorder and after him another by the Common Sergeant both setting forth the occasion of their being met there that Day and desiring their procedure in the business of the Day might be carried on with that Unanimity and Prudence as might both promote their own Honour and Advantage and their Majesties Interest Which Speeches were received with the Applause of the whole Hall After which the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen being withdrawn in the Council Chamber and the Two Sheriffs remaining upon the Hustings the Names of the Candidates for Sheriffs were Read which were Mr. Richard Chiswel Stationer Mr. Francis Child Goldsmith Mr. Richard Scot Salter Sir Thomas Lane Alderman Cloathworker Christopher Lethelier Alderman Mr. John Hubland Grocer Mr. John Deagle Draper and some of these being Aldermen and some Commoners there arose a Dispute whether the Aldermen should have the Precedency in their Nomination or whether they should be nominated promiscuously without any distinction of Aldermen or Commoners and the Question being put it was carried for the latter as the Right of the Hall Then each Candidate being severally proposed to the Hall for their Suffrage Christopher Lethelier Esquire Alderman and Mr. John Hubland Grocer were Unanimously Chosen and by the Sheriffs immediately declared to be duly Elected Sheriffs of London and Middlesex for the Year Ensuing In the next place the Hall proceeded to the Election of a Chamberlain the Candidates being Sir Peter Rich the late Chamberlain Mr. John Jekyl Mr. Matthew Meriton Mr. Leonard Robinson Mr. Edward Hartwel Mr. Edward Bushel Mr. Benjamin Ducame Mr. _____ Rooksby who being severally propos'd to the Hall the Majority appeared to be for Mr. Leonard Robinson which being declared by the Sheriffs there were some that cried out A. Poll a Poll but the Sheriffs being desirous to save the Citizens that Trouble proposed the putting up the Question a second time between Sir Peter Rich and Mr. Leonard Robinson to which the Hall having consented they were both propos'd to the Hall again and the Majority then evidently appearing to be for Mr. Leonard Robinson he was a second time declared by the Sheriffs to be duly elected and the Demand of a Poll was no farther insisted on The Hall then proceeded to the Choice of Bridge-Masters and Mr. Thomas Nicholas and Mr. Isaac Puller the former Bridge-Masters were continued They next proceeded to the Election of Auditors of the Chamber and Bridge House Accounts and of them Mr. John Morice Mr. Peter Hubland and Ralph Box Esq were continued and for the fourth Slingsby Bethel Esq and Mr. Justas Odgar were Candidates but the Choice fell upon the former Last of all they proceeded to chuse their Ale-Conners and the three surviving ones being continued one Johnson was chosen for the fourth in the room of him that was deceased The Election of Officers being thus over there was immediately a Petition proposed to be presented to the Honourable the House of Commons given into the Hands of the Common Serjeant to be read for the Approbation of the Hall And the Question being put Whether it should be Read or not It was unanimously carried in the Affirmative and after it was read as unanimously approved which was sufficiently Testified both by several Vollies of loud Shouts and Acclamations and also by their desire to have it read again which was done accordingly and thereupon their Shouts and Acclamations were again repeated Then the Question was put Who should present it And it was carried by the whole Hall That it should be presented by the Sheriffs and the common Serjeant with such other Citizens as the Sheriffs should think fit to accompany them The Petition it self was as followeth To the Honourable the Commons of England in Parliament assembled The humble Petition of the Citizens of London in the Common Hall assembled Most humbly Sheweth THat the Body Representative of the City of London in Common-Hall assembled for the Choice of their Sheriffs cannot but with all humble Thankfulness acknowledge upon this Occasion the infinite Mercy of Almighty God in his Gifts of heroick Courage and excellent Conduct to His now Majesty and Wisdom and Council to your Honours whereby the Petitioners Right to elect their chief Magistrates freely and quietly hath been wonderfully preserved all their Liberties and the very Being of Justice Peace and Prosperity in the City depending thereupon That by the gracious Influence of Divine Providence this City is become very powerful and a strong Bulwork for the defence of the Protestant Interest and the Security and Quiet of His now Majesty and the Kingdom if an universal Amity and Vnity be preserved amongst the Protestant Citizens who do equally and perfectly renounce and detest all Communion whatsoever with the Papacy and the Roman Church and adhere only to the Authority of the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament The principal Danger impending over our English Church and State being from the politick Popish Designs to divide the Protestants as they did heretofore in the beginning of the Reformation whereby they first subdued and destroyed the Calvinists and then with the like blood-thirsty-Cruelty suppressed the Lutherans whom they had deluded to help them in the Destruction of their Protestant Brethren Your Petitioners therefore most Humbly Pray That by the Wisdom and Justice of this Honourable House the Ancient Right of this City freely to elect their Sheriffs and other Magistrates may be fully and clearly vindicated from all Invasions of it and Questions concerning it And for that purpose That the Bill for restoring Corporations to their Rights and Privileges may be perfected as Your weighty Affairs will permit And in regard of the present dangerous Conspiracy of the Papists and their Accomplices against the Protestant Religion our King and Government and the Invasion threatned by the French King whereby the united Force of all the Protestants is most apparently necessary They pray that our Gracious King may be freed from all Restraints of using His Protestant Subjects indifferently in His Military and Civil Services according to their several Qualities and Abilities wherewith God Almighty Nature Education and Experience have endowed them to that very end that they might be useful to their King and Country and therein serve their God in their Generation Guild Hall London June 24. 1689. And your Petitioners shall always pray c. This Petition was the next day viz. June 25. presented to the Honourable House of Commons who at first rejected it for want of being sign'd but being afterwards sign'd by the Sheriffs and Common Serjeant as the sense of the Common-Hall it was ordered by the House to be read which was done accordingly Thus much was thought necessary to be made publick for general satisfaction as well to prevent Mis-representations as to let the World know that the Citizens of London can now chuse their own Officers without running the hazard of being indicted for Rioters and are now no more liable to have Officers imposed upon them against their Consents For which valuable Mercy let us all in the first place return our unfeigned Thanks to Almighty God as the blessed Author of it and in the next place acknowledge the Goodness of their gracious Majesties whom God has made the glorious Instruments thereof And for whom therefore we ought all heartily to pray God bless King WILLIAM and Queen MARY LONDON Printed in the Year 1690.