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A51232	The speech of the right honourable Sir John Moore, Knight, at Guild-Hall, Septemb. 29th, 1681 when he was elected lord-mayor of London, together, with some passages of his deportment on the twenty-fourth of June, 1682, and before, in relation to the election of sheriffs for the said city, and county of Middlesex.	Moore, John, Sir, 1620-1702.	1682 (1682)	Wing M2557; ESTC R2907	2,083	2

THE SPEECH Of the Right Honourable Sir John Moore Knight AT GUILD-HALL Septemb. 29 th 1681. When He was ELECTED Lord-Mayor of London Together with some Passages of his Deportment on the Twenty-Fourth of June 1682. and before in Relation to the Election of Sheriffs for the said City and County of Middlesex Gentlemen and Worthy Citizens I Give you all my hearty thanks for the great Honour you have done me this Day in chusing me your chief Magistrate for the Year ensuing It is a very great Trust you have reposed in me and a high and Honourable Employment to which you have called me It shall be my great Care to the uttermost of my Power with God's Blessing and your Assistance to discharge it faithfully It is a Work I never did and requires that Strength I never had which I hope the Lord will grant me God by you hath called me to it and I trust will carry me through it Magistracy is an Ordinance set up by Divine Authority and Government is appointed for the Good of Mankind to keep the World in Order to which is due great Reverence and Obedience I wish all Men did their Duty I am sorry to hear and see such great Divisions amongst us certainly they are in a great Error that are Promoters of them It 's the Design of Rome to divide us it will be the Wisdom of Protestants to prevent and disappoint them by living together as Brethren in Vnity amongst themselves And my Request to you all is to exercise Christian Charity to forbear Reproaching and Backbiting one another to study Quietness among your selves to discourage Sin and Wickedness to promote Piety and Godliness which will bring Glory to God Honour to the King and His Government Peace Happiness and Prosperity to this City which God Almighty grant and let all the People say Amen His Deportment about the Election of Sheriffs AT the Bridge-House-Feast the Eighteenth day of May 1682 His Lordship was pleased to Drink to Mr. Dudley North which Ceremony of the Lord Mayors Drinking to a Man at that time though it be generally taken to signify no more than that such a Man is put in Nomination or is judged fit by the Lord Mayor to be One of the Sheriffs in Case he be Elected by the Common-Hall yet some time before the Day of Election his Lord and Court of Aldermen took Mr. North's Bond to Hold Sheriff meerly upon His Lordships having Drunk to him as aforesaid And accordingly in Order to the Constituting of him Sheriff His Lordship was pleased the Nineteenth Day of June 1682 to issue his Precept to the several Companies in the unaccustomed form following THese are to require you That on Midsummer-day next being the Day appointed as well for Confirmation of the Person who hath been by Me Chosen according to the Antient Custom and Constitution of this City to be One of the Sheriffs of this City and County of Middlesex for the Year ensuing as for the Election of the Other of the said Sheriffs and other Officers You cause the Livery of Your Company to Meet together at Your Common-Hall early in the Morning and from thence to come together Decently and Orderly in their Gowns to Guild-Hall there to Make the said Confirmation and Election On Midsummer-day Mr. North Papillion Dubois and Box being named as Candidates for the Election upon View of the Hands the Election was declared to fall upon Papillion and Dubois who were judged to have the Majority of Hands by a Thousand or Twelve Hundred Whereupon Mr. North's and Mr. Box's Friends demanding a Poll it was granted But they finding that the Poll was likely to be carried for Papillion and Dubois some of them went to the Lord Mayor and by false Suggestions prevailed with him to go the Council-Chamber and being there he sent for the Sheriffs to attend Him but they desiring his Lordship's Excuse till the Poll was over he went to the Polling-place and seemed to forbid any further Proceeding in the Poll And though they gave him Reasons why they ought to proceed in the Poll being then as they said in the Legal Discharge of their Office yet his Lordship not being satisfied there-with and they con●●nuing to Poll He with a few Aldermen went to the Hastings about Seven ●n the Evening while the Sheriffs wer● Polling in the Yard and th● Common Crier by his Lordship's Direction spoke to the Promiscuous Company in the Hall to the Effect following All you that were Summoned to appear here this Day are required to depart and to give your Attendance on Tuesday at Nine of the Clock in the Morning As soon as the Cryer had said thus his Lordship and the Aldermen rose and went away Now though I am confident his Lordship is not ignorant that many Persons have severely reflected on the New Tenour of his Precept aforesaid and his insisting on his Right of Chusing One of the Sheriffs contrary to the generally received Opinion grounded as they tell us on the known Laws undoubted Privileges and uninterrupted Customs and Usages of the City which impowers the Commoners to Chuse Two Sheriffs adding That this is their Right by Prescription as well as Charter And though they further reflect on Him for Adjourning the Court the Twenty-Fourth of June last and for pretending a Right in managing the Poll which they say belongs solely to the Sheriffs and that his Lordship knows it to be so with much more to this purpose Yet for my part I shall neither mention any of his Lordship's Proceedings since the Twenty-Fourth of June nor determine how far his Speech and Actions aforesaid do agree or differ but shall leave that entirely to the Consideration of his Lordship and the Impartial Readers The Speech is Printed from that Copy of it Published by Jonathan Robinson and the Account of those Passages referring to the Election of Sheriffs is Extracted out of a Paper Published by L. Curtis LONDON Printed for R. Read 1682.