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A49004 Cur' special' tent' die Lunæ xxix ̊Januarij 1682 annoque regni Regis Caroli Secundi, Angl', &c. xxxiiij.̊ City of London (England). 1683 (1683) Wing L2857F; ESTC R39352 1,396 2

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A BRIEF ACCOUNT Of what Pass'd at the Common Council HELD IN LONDON On F●yday the 13th day of May. 1681. IMmediately before the Common Council Sate the Lord Mayor and Aldermen as is usual held their Court in it was read a Letter from His Majesty Commanding them to send to Him forthwith upon the Receipt of His Letter those two Petitions that had been presented to the Lord Mayor and Aldermen on the 28th of April last His M●jesty designing it seems to remove and take away all pretence or Colour that might be taken by the Parties to those Petitions to raise any Disputes or Contests in the Common Council about the subject matter of them The Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen unanimously agreed to give Obedience to His Majesties Letter and to send two of their Members Sir William Turner and Sir John Moore to wait upon His Majesty and to deliver Him those two Petitions This being over at Eleven of the Clock the Common Council sate and having dispatch'd some City Business Notice was taken of some Petitioners being at the Door and a Motion was made that they might be called in Mr. Papillon and four more brought in the Petition It was 1. That Thanks might be given to those that had served for the City in the late House of Commons at Oxford 2. That the Petition delivered in on the 28th of April might be taken into Consideration The point of Thanks being first proposed was carried in the Affirmative but not without Opposition The second point where the Question Whether the Petition presented the 28th of April should be taken into Consideration AT THIS TIME or not was long Contested at last they came to a Poll which happened to be thus 11. Aldermen against taking the Petition into Consideration 7. Aldermen for it 66. Common Council-men against taking the Petition into Consideration 84. Common Council-men for it Those that were not for taking the Petition into Consideration did plead First That the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen had already laid it aside together with another Petition presented the same 28th day of April wherein the Petitioners pretended to nothing else but that His Majesty might have their humble Thanks given Him for His late Gracious Declaration 2. That the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen had but an hour or two before resolved in Obedience to His Majesty to send both the said Petitions of the 28th of April to His Majesty to dispose of as He should think fit Well hoping thereby to prevent any occasion of difference that might arise thereupon 3. That the Petition now contended for containing Matters of State no way proper for the Debate of that Assembly Those that were against it protested that they were come thither to Treat and Resolve of the concerns of the City and were ready and desirous to do their duty in that behalf But if any others would meddle with Matters of State such as the said Petition seemed to contain being altogether Forrein to their business and their Constitution They would have no hand in it but must withdraw and so did all those Aldermen and most of the Common Council that were against taking said Petition into Consideration The other party went on with the Consideration of the said Petition and appointed a Committee to draw up an Address to His Majesty which being prepared was read once and without more ado past and was voted to be presented to His Majesty by the hands of Sir Robert Clayton and six or seven more This is the Sum of what past at the said Common Council by which it may be Remark'd that notwithstanding the sur-prize of a great part of the Court as to the Matter to be Debated and notwithstanding the Change that was made in the last Election of Common Council-men that those who carried an Address last Winter as they pretended with a Nemine contradicente came short of this in the Court of Aldermen by four voices and carried it but by 18 in the Common Council London Printed for VValter Davis 1681.