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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41759	The grand juries address and presentments to the mayor and aldermen of the city of Bristol, &c. Com. civit. Bristol. To the Right Worshipful Sir Richard Hart Knight, mayor of the said city, and the right worshipful and worshipful the aldermen of the same, His Majesties justices of the peace, of, and for this city, and the county of the same, now assembled in their general quarter sessions of the peace, begun and held the 12th day of April instant, and by several adjournments continued to this 26th day of the same month, anno Dom. 1681.	Bristol (England). Grand Jury.	1681 (1681)	Wing G1500A; ESTC R216491	4,767	4

Assault the Right Worshipful Mr. Mayor on the publique Toulzey whilst he was in the Execution of his Office of Mayor and had the Sword of Justice before him He the said Sir John Knight shaking a Cane he then held in his hand at the said Mr. Mayor and calling him base fellow and giving him the lie in the presence of diverse persons of Quality and others in contempt of our Soveraign Lord the King to the dishonour of this City and the Government thereof We Present the said Sir John Knight for his publick Stigmatizing and Branding all such of His Majesties Loyal Subjects as gave their votes at the last Election of Parliament men within this City for Mr. Ma●or and Mr. Tho. I●arle Members to serve for this City in the last Parliament with diverse reproachful odious and Ignominious Names and Characters especially of Papists Popish dogs Jesuits and Popish Devils Item We present Sir Robert Atkins Knight of the Bath and Recorder one of the Aldermen of the City and the said Sir John Knight John Lawford another Alderman of the same City Henry Merret Henry Glesson Senior William Douning Samuel Halles Stephen Watts John Hine and Humphry Cres●● Members of the Common Council of the same City and Charles Plum●●●● Miner a Citizen and free Burgess of the same City for that they in and by a certain Writing under the Title of a Petition by them Subscribed and Published within this City directed to the Honourable the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons in Parliament Assembled did safely maliclously and scandalouslie cause to be inferred diverse notorious and scandalous Untruths and Falshoods tending to the Dishonour and the Reproach of the good Government of this City of Mr. Mayor and the present Sheriffs of the same and diverse other persons of Quality and Loyalty particularly those of the Artillery within the said City and to the stirring up of causless heats Animosities and breaches of His Majesties Peace amongst His Majesties Subjects within this City and elsewhere and we humbly submit it to the consideration of this Court whether the said Sir Robert Atkins his continual Non-Residence amongst us and his deserting the Service of this City in his not Advising and Assisting Mr. Mayor in matters of great Importance to this City be not a sufficient cause for removing him from his place of Recorder of the said City We Present John Roe to be a Common lover of Discord and strise amongst his Majesties Subjects within this City one of the chief Authors of all those sad Divisions that have lately risen amongst us a person of a Vitious and Profligate life and Conversation a Liar a False Accuser of His Majesti●s Subjects and not fit to approach the person or company of Mr. Mayor or any other of the Magistrates of this City much less to bear the Sword before him and in case he be not already dismist from bearing the Sword before Mr. Mayor We ●umbly pray his Worship that at some convenient time he will please to conveen an house of the Common Council in order to dismiss him and chuse some fit and Loyal person for that Service Item We Present that Rich. Fairclougth John Weeks George Fowns _____ Young John Moone _____ Steele _____ Throughton and diverse others whose Names we do not as yet know not being in Holy Orders as we believe but being Nonconformist Preachers do frequently take upon them to Preach and Teach without being Licensed in several unlawful Conventicles and Meetings let up and continued within this City contrary to the Laws and Statutes in that behalf whereby they seduce diverse of his Majesties Subjects from their Loyalty and Obedience And that the Laws in Force especially the Act of Parliament made at Oxon for the restraining of Non-Conformists to come into Cities or Corporations or within five miles of them be put in speedy execution against them It being imposiple that the peace of this City should be preserved to long as such Incendiaries are tolerated amongst us Item We Present that the Coffe-house and Tipling-house of John Kimber near the Toulzey in the Parish and Ward of St. Ewen within this City hath a door newly made therein near adjoyning and opposite to St. Ewins principal Church door whereby diverse dissolute idle and disorderly persons sitting Tipling and Sinnaking Tobacco in the said Coffee-house at time of saying of Divine Service and doing other Holy Offices in the same Church do with derision and contempt look on such as are at their Devotions in the said Parish Church and by their Tipling and Tobacco taking there do offend and interupt such as are so at Church in such their Devotion and greatly Scandalize them And We further Present that the said Coffee-house is commonly frequented as well on Lords days as other days by many Schismatical and Seditions Sectaries and other Disloyal persons where for their encouragement in Tipling they are usually entertained with false News Lying and Scandalous Libels and Pamphlets tending to the Reproach and Dishonour of the Establish'd Religion and of his Majestie and Government and diverse of his great Officers and Ministers of Seate For avoiding whereof and the great inconveniences and mischiefs thereby arising and for removing the Offence thereby justly given to diverse of His Majesties Loyal Subjects We Present it as necessary and Humbly pray that if it lie in the Power of this Court the said house may be supprest and not applyed to that ill use or else that this Court will take Order that no Printed or Written News or Pamphlets be suffered to be Read or Published there or in any other Coffee or Tipling-house but only such as shall first be shew'n to Mr. Mayor or the Alderman of the Ward for the time being where such Coffee house is and be by one of them Allowed or Approved of as fit to be Read or Published The rest of our Presentments are contained in several Schedules hereunto annexed Thus having done Our parts in Presenting according to our Consciences We presume your Worships will not be wanting in punishing as Your Duty and as the Law directs by which means suture Grand Jurors will be encouraged to present Offenders and offences likewise And if so We may Reasonably hope to see Disloyal Seditious Factious and Disorderly persons discountenanced and Peace and Plenty and all outward Happiness to flourish amongst us to the envy of his Majesties and our Enemies to the Joy and Comfort of us all and of his Majesty also whose Life and Reign GOD Almighty long preserve AMEN Walter Gunter George Larkin Robert Brookhouse John Ollife Edw. Millard Tho. Lugg Tho. Turner Rich. Gibbins Will. Lewis Thomas Durbin Thomas Rich Benjamin Rostern Rob. Lippiac Rich. Kirwood Tho. Rogerson Thomas Tilie Hen. Daniele Will. Scott EDINBVRGH Re-Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson Printer to the Kings most Excellent MAJESTY Anno DOM. 1681.