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A28613 The cities great concern in this case of question of honour and arms whether apprentiship extinguisheth gentry discoursed : with a clear refutation of the pernicious error that it doth. Bolton, Edmund, 1575?-1633?; Philipot, John, 1589?-1645. 1674 (1674) Wing B3505; ESTC R37123 30,025 126

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shineth often very bright among them as it did a little before his Majestie 's happy Restoration when a great number of Apprentices probably the Sons of Gentry and such as would not forget the accustomed Loyalty of their Progenitors due at all times to their Soveraign when these threatned the Lord Mayor to pull him off his horse if he would not declare for the King for even as where the Sun is there is no darkness so where Soveraign Princes are interessed Parties there is no Baseness And as the Philosopher's Mercury purgeth vilest Metals turning all to Gold so the Operation of Princes Intentions to ennoble Societies with their personal Presences transmettals the Subject and clearly takes away all Ignobility Which things as they are most true in London so for that the Emperour Constantius Magnus if our Ancient Fitz Stephen reports the right Henry King of England Son of King Henry the second and that brave Prince Edward the first and whosoever else were born in the City they give to it the glory of Arms. And Jeffery Chaucer Sir Thomas Moore Knight with others born in London communicate thereunto the Glory of Wits and Letters To nourish up both with Excellent Titles to reall Nobility in the City the Artillery-yard and Gresham Colledge were instituted And however some of the Rebel-rout and Factious part of the Citizens of London made themselves unworthy of the Freedom and Liberties thereof by the late Horrid and Devilish Rebellion yet it cannot be denied but that many Loyal and Worthy Citizens were not only deluded over-awed and kept under by a false Authority of Parliament but plunder'd sequestred and undone for their Allegiance to the King Mr. Chaloner hanged Sir Richard Gourney Knight and Baronet Lord Mayor of London imprisoned in the Tower of London for not acting against the King and the Rebellious Party commanded Sir George Whitman Knight formerly Lord Mayor and chosen locumtenens for the Remainder of Sir Richard Gourney's year to be sent Prisoner to Yarmouth for the like Loyalty and James Bunch an Alderman of London now Sir James Bunch Knight and Baronet imprisoned in the Tower of London had all his Estate real and personal plundred sequestred and sold and ordered by the usurping Powers to be exempted from Pardon and forced to fly into the parts beyond the Seas to His now Majesty with whom he continued until His Majesty's happy Restauration And Sir Abraham Reynardson Lord Mayor of London in the time of that Rebellion was imprisoned and fined 2000l for refusing to publish the Proclamation of those Contrivers of all manner of wickedness for the abolishing of Kingly Government The worthiness of the City is now visible being not disheartned by the late Correction and Loss of Pestilence and Fire which after their humble Acknowledgment to God of their deserving have reedified the Devastation with greater Splendor and Beauty Their Industry we may compare to the Bees which Virgil describes Quò magis exhaustae fuerint hoc acrius omnes Incumbent generis lapsi sarcire ruinas Complebuntque foros floribus horrea texent How much by fortune they exhausted are So much they strove the ruins to repair Of their fall'n Nation and they fill the Exchange Adorning with the choicest flowers their Grange Sir John Fitzwater's Pallace was that Noble Pile named Baynard's Castle neer St. Paul's Wharf lately burned down from whence in great respect to him the Lord Mayor takes water attended with Barges of the several Companies to Westminster where he takes his Oath of Mayoralty and so returns in Triumph to Guild-Hall to his Feasting Thus this Question of Honour and Arms undertaken for affection to that great City and their Children being as we hope sufficiently discussed the End of all is this That albeit the love of humane Praise and outward Splendor in the marks and testimonies of it are very vehement fires in all worthiest Natures yet have they no Beatitude nor so to say Felicitation but only as with reference to this of the Blessed Apostle Soli Deo Honor Gloria AMEN FINIS The Case in Question Except