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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B21511	London's choice of citizens to represent them in the ensuing parliament viz. Sir Robert Clayton, Lord Mayor elect, Sir Thomas Player, Knight, William Love and Thomas Pilkington, Esquires : with an account of some passages previous thereto and remarques upon the whole, October 7th, 1679 / in a private letter from E.E. to J.W. at Newcastle upon Tine.	E. E.	1679 (1679)	Wing E9	5,707	6

London's Choice OF CITIZENS TO Represent them in the Ensuing Parliament Viz. Sir Robert Clayton Lord Mayor Elect. Sir Thomas Player Knight William Love and Thomas Pilkington Esquires WITH An Account of some Passages previous thereto and Remarques upon the Whole October 7th 1679. In a Private Letter from E. E. to J. W. at Newcastle upon Tine SIR HAving those Obligations upon me which will not permit me to neglect what within my power I judge may be acceptable to you I could not forbear to give you some Account of this days Work in the Choice of Citizens to serve in Parliament for this City of London You know Sir it was about the beginning of September that I left your very agreeable Comny and came to London where I read every day new Pamphlets and heard Discourses some commending the Choice of such men for the Ensuing Parliament as had shewed themselves Zealous for the Defence of the King's Person the Protestant Religion and Government of England and were upon those Grounds Voters for the Bills against Popery and the D. for Justice upon Danby and the Popish Plotting Lords c. whilst other Pamphlets and Discourses did bitterly inveigh against the late Commons in Parliament as Factious and Ill-minded men fomented with the Leven of 41 Fanatically inclined dangerous to the Church and Monarchy worse than Papists and therefore the greater care should be to keep them and such as they were out of the Parliament-House The Graver sort of these men would charge those late Members with great Imprudence Want of Moderation and rashness in their Resolves especially in the Bill against the D. which they would perswade was inconsistent with Allegiance and Religion too And all this Outcry was made in the behalf of the Church of England and under pertrxt of her true Sons The Act of Oblivion made by this King seemed now to be forgot and whilst some charged others with the Designs of 41 they themselves did with all their Might endeavour to revive the same Spirit and Rancour which raised the Storms of those days The Papists and Presbyterians were brought upon the Stage and parallel'd but so that the latter ware still more dangerous than the former In some of these Pamphlets Published under the Vizar of the Church of England men one might easily discover the Lineaments of a Jesuite for even the Murder of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey by the Papists was made doubtful and they could not forbear to cite the Texts of Scripture in Latine though that Custome is obsolete among us Protestants The Duke of Y's Presence at Court added Vigor and Spirit to these agents which being perccived by many considering Citizens gave occasion to the Address made by Sir Tho. Player in their Names that the City-Guards might be increased for the Argument was very plain If there was need of any Guards when the Duke was Absent then there was need of more in his Presence when the Popish Party did manifestly take Courage and Activity from that Cause This also they did endeavour to improve to the Advantage of their Cause by interpreting these Addresses to be Factious and the Fore-runners of most mischievous Actions And now the Kingly Government was underminded because the Popish Successor was feared and the Church of England was like to be Subverted because some Citizens had the Courage to open their Mouths in humbly Representing their Dangers from the Papists And yet in the mean time Sir T. P. is a Devout Son of the Church of England and inferiour to no man in the City in Abilities for Publick Employments and such he did appear in the last Parliament where they would hear him with as much Readiness and employ him in their greatest Trusts as soon as any he was one of their Secret Committee he was one of their Commissioners for Disbanding the Army c. But all must now turn to his Prejudice he was a Popular Man and therefore to be feared and hated Would you not wonder that the Experience of a man's Ability and Integrity in Trusts and the Love and Esteem he reaps thence should be an Argument against his being employed But this was the Handle our Yorkists took this man's Actions by and now they labour to improve this against his being chosen by the City into the Ensuing Parliament and for his sake all the rest of their late Citizens in Parliament must be rejected and men more firm to the Church that is in truth more for the Dukes Interest chosen for all these Four it seems had Voted for the Bill of Exclusion Another Occasion of Clamouring in the Anti-Popish Citizens was that some of them having long observed the Great and Unnecessary Expence their Sheriffs are at in their Shrievalties insomuch that no man can be capable of Holding that Office except he have an overgrown Estate and consequently the Magistrates must be chosen out of those few that are so rich however unqualified with Abilities befitting their Places and others better qualified must be rejected because they are not so rich considering also that this year in the Condition we stand with our Popish Enemies is like to require men of best Parts and Knowledge in the Government of the City and finding one Mr. Jenkins to be well qualified with Understanding Courage and Integrity though not with a great Estate they resolved to chuse him as a man fit for these difficult Times and that would reduce the Charge to such a moderation as might make it supportable by one of an indifferent Estate and to keep out a Man strongly addicted to the D. of Y's Party whom they understand some aimed at and therefore so many of the Common Hall held up their Hands for Mr. Jenks that it could not well be decided on whom the Choice fell without a Poll but Mr. Lewis carried it This was made such a Crime as if all that Voted for Mr. Jenks had presently a Design under his Conduct to raise a Rebellion and turn the Government of the City and Nation upside down and this is reflected on Sir T. P. because one of the Addresses to the Lord Mayor was made the same Morning and by many of the same Persons that were at Guild-hall to chuse a Sheriff as if indeed so many Citizens many of them of good Estates understanding Men Lovers of Peace should all of a suddain run mad and in that Fit go to chuse one that should infallibly lead them and their Families into Ruine but this and nothing else could be the Design of this Choice if you will believe our City Yorkeists and some others that they could impose upon This I am told is the first time in the Memory of Man and perhaps ever since there were Sherriffs of London that any man was endeavoured to be chosen into that Office for Love and not for Envy and Ill-will In the Management of a Second Address another Circumstance arose which the Adversaries made Sport with The Lord Mayor had answered the