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A50286 The Matters of fact in the present election of sheriffs, for the year ensuing, faithfully reported and the micarriages of my lord mayor and some other persons in this matter, briefly declared. 1682 (1682) Wing M1304; ESTC R10733 6,990 4

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upon them against their will and consent It were needless to recount all my Lord Mayors Miscarriages in this Affair such as not only his denying divers worthy Citizens who were for Mr. Papillon and Mr. Duboise access unto him when his house was free and open to those of the contrary party but the suffering several of the best quality to be affronted and assaulted if not in his vety presence at least within his gates And as if it had not been contrary to the duty of his Office as well as the wisdom of a man to give up himself implicitely to the government and conduct of Sir L. J. he not only permitted that person to be present at his discourse with several Free-men that came to him about the priviledges and Franchises of the City but he connived at and allowed that Minister in checking and rebuking some Gentlemen who had the courage in his hearing to claim their Rights Surely as his Lordship hath taken no notice of what befel Sir Samuel Sterling and Sir Edward Bromfield for Offences not neer so heinous as those he is guilty of so he never read of one Sir Nicholas Brember Lord Mayor of London that was condemn'd to be hang'd in Richard the 2d's time Knighten and with much a do upon the Kings intercession had the favout to be beheaded and this for neglecting the duty of his place and acting conformably to the dictates of Court Ministers particul●rly for undertaking at the pleasure of the King to be Mayor without the consent and against the will of the Citizens And as this may instruct Sir John Moor what he may in due time expect seeing the imposing such Officers as Sheriffs upon the City not only without the concurrence but against the Declaration of the Free-men is a much greater Crime than the serving Mayor at the Command of the King without their consent so it may forewarn Mr. North and Mr. Box what is likely to befall them if they take upon them the Office of Sheriffs against the Will of the Citizens For if King Richards requiring Sir Nicholas Brember to hold Mayor without being duly Elected could not save his Head from the Block much less can Sir John Moors calling these Gentlemen forth to the Office of Sheriffs protect them from the Punishment to which by the Law they shall be found liable for so doing And as they will be bold men that will undertake the Office of Sheriffs upon the bare Authority of my Lord Mayors word so I know not how the present Sheriffs can resign the Goals c. unto such persons who pretend to the Office of Sheriffs by no better Right Nay I will be bold to say That should my Lord Mayor and the Court of Aldermen have the confidence to swear Mr. North and Mr. Box on Michaelmas Eve that the Common-Hall may Vote them out and chuse others in their Room on Michaelmas day But it is pleasant to observe how this pretended Election of North and Box for Sheriffs against the ensuing Year works already with the Papists and our Masquerade Protestants for they not only begin to talk of blasting the belief of the Popish Plot but of Hanging Protestants by Whole-sale And whereas Mr. Duncomb was contented a few days ago with the Lives of 9 or 10 nothing less will now serve them than the destroying of Scores if not Hundreds and this within the compass of London and Middlesex However this we have to rely upon that whereas Mr. North had only 107 hands and Mr. Box 1353 in all the Books Mr. Papillon and Mr. Dubois had upwards of 2700 Hands a piece reckoning in my Lord Mayors Books with those of the Sheriffs and were Proclaimed to be duly Elected by the proper Officers And as we cannot think that the King will connive at so unjust a thing and which so directly subverts all the Laws by which he hath sworn to Govern so we are assured that the Judges in His Majesties Courts will esteem no punishments severe enough as well for them that shall act as Sheriffs by no better Warrant as for him that hath taken upon him to declare them for such against all Law as well as President And as my Lord Mayor may be already sensible how his Fellow-Citizens resent his late illegal carriage and behaviour towards them by the many Actions entred against him to which they have demanded appearance so he will find that all that is hither done in order to right themselves and chastise his usurpation upon their Franchises is but like a few drops before a storm in comparison of what he must afterwards look for Nor must Sir J. E. and Sir W. P. c. think to escape being called to an account not only for abetting the Mayor in all these Invasions upon the Priviledges of the City but for exciting him unto and hurrying him upon them And as it is evident what esteem they have of his Lordship by using him as a Tool to do such unjustifiable and enormous things which were they themselves in the Chair they would neither have the boldness nor indiscretion to attempt so their thus managing a person whom they stile their Friend as well as one to whom they are bound by their Oaths to give safe and good Advice rendreth them Offenders against Truth Justice and the Rules of Friendship as well as against the Rights of the Corporation and their own Oath And as for the Common Sergeant and the Common-Cryer they ought to reckon themselves accountable as for other misdemeanors in this Affair so for disobeying their Masters in refusing to pronounce and proclaim what the Common-Hall whose servants they are required and commanded them to do And should the Commons of London quietly digest and overlook the disobedience and obstinacy of these Fellows whom they have raised and made I will say that they have not only forgotten their Authority but that they deserve to be ridden and trampled upon by their meanest Officers LONDON Printed for J. Johnson 1682.