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kingdom_n	henry_n	king_n	succeed_v	1,788	5	9.3756	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39971	The Forfeitures of Londons charter, or, An impartial account of the several seisures of the city charter together with the means and methods that were used for the recovery of the same, with the causes by which it came forfeited, as likewise the imprisonments, deposing and fining the lord being faithfully collected out of antient and modern historys, and now seasonably published for the satisfaction of the inquisitive, upon the late arrest made upon the said charter by writ of quo warranto.		1682 (1682)	Wing F1557; ESTC R18801	24,150	37

That they had forfeited a Bond of 9000 pounds to him besides their Liberties and Priviledges which Bond or Obligation they had formerly made to the King as a Confirmation of their Obedience and after the King had declared what new offences they had Committed he discharged the Mayor two Sheriffs and the rest of the Officers of their respective Offices and sent the Mayor and the two Sheriffs to a certain place there to be kept in Custody as his Prisoners divesting the City of London of all her Honours and Priviledges insomuch that a Citizen or Free-man should have no more Prerogative than a Forreigner or Stranger He also appointed the Lord Baleridge to be Governour thereof to keep and see kept the Kings Laws and his Leige-people within the City of London in due order until such time as the King had otherwise provided for them after which a day was set them to answer the King and his Council to certain Interrogatorys which was on the Feast of St. Mary Magdalen and the place affixed for that purpose was VVindsor In the mean while through the Mediation of such as were well-willers to the City the Kings Indignation was somewhat mittigated and pacified towards them insomuch that at length he released the Mayor and Sheriffs from their Confinements sending them home to their respective houses setting over the City notwithstanding a new Keeper or Governour reserving all the Priviledges and Liberties in his own hands In the mean time the Citizens consulting what was best to be done they at last agreed to submit themselves and all their Goods to the Kings mercy when upon the Assumption of the blessed Virgin all the Wealthy Citizens came to the King and submitted themselves accordingly insomuch that he speak friendly to them and began to receive them into favour On the VVednesday ensuing the King was purposed to come to London and the Citizens in great numbers came out to meet him on Horse-back and such as could not procure Horses went on foot to welcome him which they performed with Shouts and joyful Acclamations and not only men but likewise women and Children came flocking about him When he came near the City the Bishop of London with all the Clergy and Religious Persons of all Degrees whatsoever went out to meet him so that in that Procession there were said to be above 500 Boys in Surplices moreover the Citizens trimed the out-side of their houses and Chambers in every street through which the King and Queen were to pass as for the Houses of the wealthier sort they were bravely garnished with Cloth of Gold Silver Velvet and other Rich and sumptuous Stuffs In Cheapside there was a Conduit out of which two Spouts ran with red and white Wines and upon the Conduit stood a little Boy Appareled like an Angel having a Golden Cup in his hand in which he presented Wine to the King and Queen as they passed by In the mean time several Citizens presented the King with a Crown of Gold of great value as likewise another to the Queen and a while after they presented her with a Tablet of Gold with the Story of St. Ann Ingraven in it the which she most greatfully accepted and the rather by reason her own name was Ann as saith our Historian As likewise to the King a Golden Tablet of the blessed Trinity to the value of 800 pounds such so great and wondeful Honours did the Citizens of London to the King and Queen as the like before had been never done to any King or Queen of this Realm and so going forwards they brought the King and Queen to Westminster-Hall where the King placing himself upon his Throne and all his Nobles standing about him one in the Kings behalf as his Speaker gave the Citizens thanks for the great Honour they had done him and the Princely Presents which they had bestowed upon him and then they being commanded every man to fall to his business and that in the next Parliament they should have their final Answer they departed with great joy And thus far this Author makes his Report of what happened upon the afore-mentioned occasion After this Reconciliation by the means and methods before recited the Citizens followed their Imployments peaceably having several Grants and smunities added to the former as also when King Richard was Deposed by Henry Duke of Lancaster Son to John of Gaunt the Citizens by siding with the Conqueror preserved their Charter and Liberties as likewise during his Reign who took the Rule of the Kingdom upon him by the Name of Henry the 4th After him succeeded his Son Henry the Fifth into whose favour the Citizens highly Ingratiated themselves dealing likewise faithfully with his Son Henry the Sixth till such time as Edward the Fourth became Conqueror at which time they neglected him as thinking it safest to sail with the Wind of Power During his Reign they continued peaceable having many of their former Charters and Grants confirmed though not without considerable summs of money on the parts of the City King Richard the Third being a Usurper was obliged to make the Citizens his Friends for the better support of his Dignity so that they lived quietly during his Reign as also during the Reign of King Henry the Seventh but in the Ninth year of Henry the Eighth these following Disturbances happened The City of London being greatly Infested with Strangers who notwithstanding the Priviledges and Charters granted did use all manner of Handicrafts and had such Licenses to vend their Manufactures that the Citizens were greatly Impoverished nor was that all for they being Imboldened by relying upon the favour of the Courtiers openly abused the Citizens not only with reproachful words but likewise by Stroaks and amongst the rest one Francis D'Bard a Lumbard causing a Citizens Wife to convey her Husbands Plate and other Goods to his house he there kept her and would by no means restore her although an Action was brought against him These and such like matters stirred up the Citizens Indignation against the Strangers but above all one John Lincoln a Broaker who having drawn up a Bill of Grievances with it he went to Dr. Standish and desired him to read it in his Pulpit at the Spittle he being to Preach there on the Munday in Easter-Week but he like a Wise Man and good Subject considering of what evil consequence it might prove refused it upon which Lincoln went to Dr. Bele who was to Preach there on the Tuesday and so prevailed with him that he openly read it the Contents being these The Substance of the Bill of Complaint Read by Dr. Bele at the SPITTLE TO all you the VVorshipful Lords and Masters of this City that will take Compassion on the poor People your Neighbours as also of the great and insufferable Hurts Losses and Hindrances whereof proceedeth the extream poverty to all the Kings Subjects that inhabit within this City and the Suburbs thereof for so it is that the