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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41682	Londinum triumphans, or, An historical account of the grand influence the actions of the city of London have had upon the affairs of the nation for many ages past shewing the antiquity, honour, glory, and renown of this famous city : the grounds of her rights, priviledges, and franchises : the foundation of her charter ... / collected from the most authentick authors, and illustrated with variety of remarks.	Gough, William, 1654?-1682.	1682 (1682)	Wing G1411; ESTC R24351	233,210	386

Arms and forwardness of Service as if the City had been a Camp and they not Men of the Gown but all profess'd Soldiers which they perform'd to their great Cost but greater Commendation saith Sir Richard Baker But the greatest Inducement may be supposed to have been that they never appear'd prone to join with the King's Enemies of which he had good store abroad besides Domestick Troubles and private Insurrections at home especially towards the latter end of his Reign when he had taken away the Pope's Supremacy excluded his Authority and suppressed the Abbies and Monasteries the chief Fortresses and Pillars thereof either by force of an Act of Parliament or by vertue of the Resignations of their Governours either over-aw'd by fear or brib'd with Pensions Not long after which there were several Commotions in the Land which might have much shaken the Throne had the Citizens openly shew'd any inclination to joyn with these disturbers of the Kings rest and repose but they continuing quiet th●se troubles were quickly compos'd and so the foundation undesignedly doubtless was laid for a publick Reformation which was more vigorously carried on in the next Kings Reign though I hardly think it hath yet arriv'd to such perfection as to render it so compleat as might be piously desired Short was the Reign of this pious Prince Edward the sixth yet not so short but that it gave such an Addition of strength to the Protestant Religion by removing out of the way many of the Relicks of Popery and openly encouraging the Preaching of the Gospel that hitherto it could never be rooted out of the Land notwithstanding the damage it sustained under the next Successor a most violent and rigid Papist and the many secret Plots and practices of Popish Emissaries to undermine it and introduce Popery again into England prov'd upon them Thus was the outward face of Religion visibly chang'd in the City under this Religious King but yet her power we find not in the least diminished nor the esteem our great men had thereof of which we meet with an evident instance in History on account of the difference arisen between the potent Earl of Warwick and some of the Privy Council on the one hand and the Lord Protector Seymour the Kings M●ternal Uncle on the other The Privy Counsellors having designs upon the Protector and withdrawing themselves from Court got to London with their attendance and taking possession of the Tower made it their business to secure the City to their side by sending for the Lord Mayor and Aldermen to Ely house in Holborn where they were assembled and entertaining them with a long Oration about the ill government of the Protector and the many mischiefs that came thereby as they affirm'd upon the Kingdom attended with a request of their joynt assistance to help them to remove him wherein they were so successful that upon the arrival of two Letters almost at the same instant to the Common Council held at Guildhall one from the King and Lord Protector for a thousand of the City to be arm'd in defence of the Kings Person and the other from the Lords to have two thousand men to aid them with the same Plea for defence of the Kings Person and that the City should be well kept with Watches day and night the Citizens shew'd themselves so inclinable to the Lords that they arm'd an hundred horse men and four hundred foot men in defence of the City suitable to the motion of the Lords and sent no Assistance to the Protector though it had been desir'd in the Kings Name but rather suffered a Proclamation containing diverse Articles against him to be made in several Parts of the City and the Lords were entertain'd with a Dinner at one of the Sheriffs the eighth of October after they had been themselves in Person at Guildhall and on the tenth they din'd at the other Sheriffs after that by a Common Council the same day in Stows Computation five hundred men of the City had been granted to be ready on the next morning Evident marks signs and tokens doubtless which way the City bended and the event is a sufficient confirmation thereof For the next News we hear is the removal of the Protector from about the King and the sending him to the Tower within two or three days after where an humble Confession and Submission was his best security for that time by which he got his Liberty some time after and was sworn again a Privy Counsellor but no more a Protector Had the City sent him the Aid requ●sted he would possibly have had little reason to have stood infear of the combined Lords or had but her Magistrates continued Neuters in the Case and not been so openly favourable to his Enemies he might perhaps have been able enough to have cop't with them with little or no bazard for he had raised much People about Hampton Court in the Kings Name and conveyed him to Windsor with a great number of Horsemen and Footmen But the Strength and Authority of the City was not to be contradicted much less opposed Thus the Protector lost his Place and well it might have been haply for the King and Nation if that had been all For his Enemies having remov'd him from his Protectorship and thereby gain'd the greater access of Power to themselves and the Principal of them the politick Earl of Warwick lately created Duke of Northumberland advanced in Title and Honour equal with and in Authority and Power above the highest whereby his aspiring thoughts were grown ripe to be put in execution they were resolv'd to have the other touch with him for his Life wherein they made use of the Cities Power to secure them for his Tryal by ordering every Housholder in London to take care of his own Family keep his house and have one ready in arms upon call for the day time and that by Night a sufficient Watch of substantial Housholders should be kept in every Ward So litte durst they attempt without ingaging the City therein and so frail and transitory had been their projecting designs had she refused But with her concurrence what could they not do So then at last tryed the late Protector was acquitted of Treason and condemned for Felony and afterwards beheaded on Tower-Hill much against the Kings Will the Constables of every Ward in London by vertue of a Precept directed from the Council to the Lord Mayor strictly charging the Citizens not to stir out of their houses before a prefixt hour for fear perhaps of a Rescue for 't was known he was well belov'd generally by the People and plainly evidenced when upon a mistake thinking him acquitted they gave so great a shout for joy that it was heard Stow tells us from Westminster-Hall to Long-Arce to the Lords astonishment So fell Sommerset by the malice of his Enemies and weakness of his Friends and we may easily believe 't was not design'd the King should be long liv'd

temper and inclination he lays Claim to the Crown in open Parliament and had it at last Entail'd upon himself and his Heirs King Henry to retain the Name and Honour of King during Life if he did not voluntarily Resign and the Duke of York to be Declared Heir Apparent to the Crown and Protector of the King's Person Lands and Dominions with some other Conditions Exceptions and Reservations This we may suppose was as much as they then ●ound the Citizens willing to agree and consent to ●or the present For we have it from Stow on the ●ne hand that the Duke of York when he Challeng'd ●he Kingdom as right Heir which Cotton's Abridge●ent fixes upon the 16th of October purposed to have ●een Crowned on Allhollan-day next following and ●n the other side that the King was very much fa●oured and highly honoured by the common People for his Holiness of life and abundant Clemency Whether the Citizens would have yielded to more or not I cannot be positive but this I am sure of that they so far gave way that now the York Party had got much the better end of the Staff by an Act of Parliament as well as by Arms Title and the Cities Affections and made use of it accordingly to the Old Kings actual Deposition and the setting up of a New one at London before the next Spring was over by the concurrent consent of many substantial Citizens thereof This the Yorkist Faction had reason enough notwithstanding their prosperous success in the Country to acknowledge as a great favour of the Commonalty of London and impute the following success to their Corstancy in adhereing to their Party after a double overthrow given the Yorkists by the Lancastrians when the Magistracy seemed in part at least to have altered Opinions and Resolutions if not their Affections For would but the Commons have sate still and continued Neutral in the Contest the other side was in a fair way to have made their Party good against the Yorkists but the Commons opposition to their Mayors Proceedings stem'd the Current to the others benefis and the manifest disadvantage of the Queen and the Court. Whereby we may observe where lies the orength of the City and who are likeliest in the end to carry the day the Mayor or the Commons when they vary in their Sentiments and as different Parties pull two contrrry ways The whole Story the Occasion and the Consesequences are to be seen in our English Historians who among the diversity of their Relations in many things and wonted variety in expressing the Transactions of the Times concur nevertheless in the Issue and Event of the Actions then i● hand For let any of them write never so partially out of Favour and Affection the Truth will out at last and shall prevail against all opposition The Queen with her Northern Army had overthrown and slain Richard Duke of York and routed his Party at Wakefield and afterwards discomfitted the Earl of Warwick and his Power at Saint Albons upon Bernard Heath and so delivered King Henry out of their hands who pretended to be his Life Guard but were in reality his Keepers Observes Overseers and Governours or in an yet harsher term though as true a sence his Jaylors upon which important Successes the Queen sent to the Mayor of London willing and commanding him in the King's Name speedily to send her Victuals without delay for her Army which Command the Mayor strove presently with great diligence to put in Execution by preparing several Cart-Loads of Lenten Provision and sending them to Cripple-Gate towards the Lancastrians Camp at Saint Albans But there the Commons unanimously withstood their further passage and by strong hand kept the Carts from going out of London saying It did not behoove them to feed their Enemies who intended to Rob the City and having repulsed the Northern Horsemen robbing in the Subberbs upon their attempt to enter that way into the City and slain three of them continued so firm and fixt in their Resolutions that let the Mayor do what he could by Exhortation and Arguments to shew them the danger that might ensue by stopping the Carts he could neither reclaim nor alter their minds nor by any means prevail upon them but in the end was fain to send the Recorder and some of the Aldermen to the Kings Council to request the Northern Mens Dismission besides two Female Mediators to interceed for him to the Queen and excuse his not using force in those dangerous and doubtful times against the Commons opposition least their fury being once stir'd it might not so easily have been allaid again Whereupon the Queen was sending some of the Lords with 400 Soldiers to the City to take a view of the peoples demeanour but having her hands full upon certain notice that the Earl of March Yorks Eldest Son and the Earl of Warwick with joint Forces were coming up in all haste to London she departed with the King her Husband and Son into the North her only refuge having little trust in Essex less in them of Kent but least of all saith Stow in the Londoners so little avail'd it to have the Mayor and some of the chief Commoners on her side as Fabian intimates when the Commonalty i. e. the vast majority held with the Duke of York and his party wherefore upon the Courts departure from St. Albans the Earl of March with his Yorkists entered the City in Lent with a great Attendance and was joyfully received the people resorting to him in great numbers out of Kent Essex and other parts to see aid and assist this lusty Prince as the Annalist words it in whom the hope of all their joy consisted as soon as his coming thither was known where he was quickly Proclaimed and acknowledged King by consent in the beginning of March and after eight or ten Battels actually Crowned in June with great Royalty and a splendid appearance of Lords and Commons Mayor Aldermen and Citizens In so high a degree did the Cities actions sway the Country and such an advantage was it to the Yorkists to have gained her over to their Party I need not here remark the prevalency of the Commonalty over the Temporising Mayor and his time-serving Interest the event plainly she wing in these particulars Vox Populi to have been Vox Coeli because I have touched upon this string already But this however I am warranted from History to observe that the Londoners after they had once throughly placed their hearts upon the House of York they continued so fixt and firm to their Interest that no shocks of Fortune nor the Troubles and Commotions about the middle of King Edwards Reign could shake the firmness of their adherence to him so fast was he Rivetted in their Affections nor yet the Popularity of the great Earl of Warwick himself so much greater than a King as that which makes is greater than that it makes whose Hospitality may be supposed to have