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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

all had not faith ●●ough to trust too much in it when fear and thick ●●rkness had seized on them though 't was the com●on voice in those days that a few Masses could 〈◊〉 mens Souls out of Purgatory But you may be 〈◊〉 they were well to be paid for first Noted in 〈◊〉 14th was the Ordinance made by the Mayor 〈◊〉 Duke and the Rulers of London that no Sheriff ●ould continue in Office longer than one year the ●use related was the opportunity some of them ●ade use of to take extortions and bribes with o●●er defaults by reason of the continuance of their Office The 17th is not lightly to be pass'd over that the K. therein kept his Christmas at Worcest according to Stow where he removed all his Office● and Councillors Bishops Earls and Barons and 〈◊〉 for strangers viz. Pictavians retain'd them in 〈◊〉 Service and committed to them the keeping of 〈◊〉 Castles and Treasures What could hence be expect● but murmurings and repinings amongst the Native● Accordingly we hear some time after of Messenge● sent by the Barons to the King requesting the di●placing of those strangers and also threatning th● otherwise they would depose him and create a 〈◊〉 King A bold message from as bold Subjects For 〈◊〉 may read of the King's Lands being invaded the 〈◊〉 year and destroy'd by fire and sword by the Earl 〈◊〉 Pembroke and the Prince of north-North-Wales Whereup●● we find in a little time the Pictavians expell'd 〈◊〉 made with these two great discontented men 〈◊〉 the King 's natural Subjects recalld and their Co●●sel yielded to by the King The 19th is remarkable for the King's Marriage with the Royal Solemnity Justs and Tourneamen● kept 8 days near Westminster at the Queen's Coro●●tion Yet Stow places the time a year after as 〈◊〉 doth also many other particular occurrences happeing in this King's Reign From the same Author 〈◊〉 are given to understand that to this Coronation ●●sorted so great a number of all Estates that the Ci●● of London was scarce able to receive them Great 〈◊〉 the splendour wherein the City appeared on this o●casion it being adorn'd with Silks and in the nig●● with Lamps Cressets and other lights without nu●ber besides many Pageants strange devices whi●● were then snewn The Citizens rode to meet 〈◊〉 King and Queen being clothed in long garments 〈◊〉 broidered with Gold and Silk of divers colours the●● horses finely trapped in array to the number of 360. Every man bearing Gold or Silver Cups in their hands the King's Trumpeters before them sounding The 21th was ominous to the University of Oxford for the Scholars abusing Octo●oon the Pope's Legate who afterwards accursed the misdoers and so punished them that the Regents Masters were at last compelled to go barefoot through Cheapside to Pauls in London there to ask forgiveness of him which was granted it seems with difficulty enough His Master the Pope when cross'd and incens'd is wont to be sufficiently stately and backward in pardoning such as displease him not without much ●ntercession sometimes why then should not the Servant Ape it after so great an Example In the 23d year for that the Mayor and Heads of the City refus'd to obey the King's Commandment ●n Chusing Simon Fitz Marre Sheriff as the King had order'd them which they lookt upon as a derogation to their Liberties The King sent for them and after words of displeasure discharg'd the old Mayor Will. Ioynour newly Elected for the following year and charg'd the Citizens to proceed to a new Election which to content the King they did and Chusing Gerard Bat by his means and policy obtained the King's favour and frustrated the other purpose who had procur'd the aforesaid Commandment and complain'd to the King of the Citizens for their disobeying it In the 25th the Citizens having Chosen Gerard Bat anew for the year following presented him to the King according to Custom He who the ●ast year had so gain'd the King's favour in behalf of the City was now so far out of it by means of some mens Informations that he with his company was first dismist and put off till another time and at last for some offences alledged and displeasure conceived against him clearly put by the King swearing a gre●● Oath that he should not that year be Mayor nor 〈◊〉 any time hereafter Whereupon the Commons ce●tified of the King's pleasure Chose Remond Bengley 〈◊〉 his stead The Citizens having the year before 〈◊〉 prevail'd upon to alter their Election that was Pr●sident enough it seems to occasion the like again The City having obtain'd great Priviledges of thi● King in his younger days we find already some e●deavouring to frustrate and disappoint the effect 〈◊〉 benefit of them The City had appear'd with a gre●● deal of success in opposition to the last King's pr●ceedings and therefore it 's likely such as intende● to attempt again for Arbitrary Power thought th● City too headstrong easily to permit them to su●ceed in their desires unless they could first bring th● Citizens a little under by cunningly under mini●● their Liberties Whereupon we find this year a sp●cious pretence taken to oblige the Commonalty b● offering to free and keep them from being oppresse● by the Heads and Rulers of the City How well 〈◊〉 plausible Plea took for a while will be manifested 〈◊〉 the sequel of the Story That there were great hea●● and animosities in those times between the City 〈◊〉 the Court may easily be observ'd out of Stow wh● tells us in the 25th years Annals how the Citize● were threatned that the Walls and Bulwarks of th● Tower were builded in despight of them to the 〈◊〉 that if any of them would presume to contend 〈◊〉 the Liberties of the City they might there be imprison'd And to the intent that many might be la●● in divers Prisons many Lodgings were there mad● that no one should speak with another An occasi●● was also taken sometime after to Fine the Ci●● 1500 Marks for the receiving into the City a pe●son banish'd from thence 20 years Notwithstandi●● the Citizens had prov'd that before that time the said ●erson had been reconcil'd and restor'd to the King's ●avour Another device to exact Money from the Londoners was the proclaiming a Mart at Westmin●●er to last 15 days with a Command that all Trades ●hould cease in the City for that space of time which the Citizens were fain to redeem with 2000l ●et they still increast in Riches while the King was ●ompell'd for want to sell his Plate and Jewels much ●o his loss which being sold and bough● a● London 〈◊〉 the 33d year of his Reign occasioned this his ex●ression upon knowledge thereof as my Author re●ates it I know that if Octavian 's Treasure were to be ●●ld the City of London would sup it up and by it ●hose rustical Londoners quoth the King abound in ●ealth and call themselves Barons Noted is the 25th ●ear likewise for the first

day in the Afternoon and then was discharg'd upon the Oath of two Commons sworn in the name of the City that the City should stand to the Ordinance and Judgment of the Church So Eabian informs us but he likewise telis us of another Chronicle which affirms that this Interdiction should have continued longer had it not been for the sternness of the Londoners who held the Legate so streight that they inforc't him to withdraw that sentence upon the foresaid Condition So that is seems the Legate had not strength enough to 〈◊〉 with the Londoners so roughly and harshly yet s●curely as otherwise he might perchance have do●● with lesser Places and Parties His reverend Lega●●ship seems not here to have went so cunningly 〈◊〉 work as did a Legate much of the same Name i● not the same Man in the twenty first of this Kin●● Reign with the Oxford Scholars He first got 〈◊〉 enough off from them to Wallingford and then accus'd the misdoers that had put him into such a 〈◊〉 that for his Safeguard he took the Belfry of Osney 〈◊〉 abode there till the Kings Ministers coming fro● Abbington with strength mixt with fair words de●●vered him and conveyed him away as is in 〈◊〉 before shewn No no the Londoners were too stron● and stern so to be fool'd and us'd They would ●●ther we perceive by the story compel him th●● sawningly crouch to him After this the Bulwarks and Barlicarnes made by the Earl in the City were plucked clean up and Ditches fill'd so that no part of them was see● Good to destroy all the Monuments of civil Broils and Discord When the Citizens should have had their new Pardon granted an obstacle was mad● for so much as they as yet had not recompenced the King of the Romans for the Subversion of hi● Manour of Thistleworth Well remembred and as seasonably put in A good convenient opportunity to put in for his share when he knew all the other differences were pretty well quieted in the L●●d and might reasonably conclude the City would rather wisely part with a little Money than begin a new trouble for a small matter and so hazard all For his Reparation was ask'd we find six thousand 〈◊〉 But finally with great Labour and Freindship 〈◊〉 was made to give him for amends one 〈…〉 ma●ks to be paid in two years Thus you 〈◊〉 observe some will be sure however to ask 〈◊〉 where they know there is good Ability to 〈◊〉 though they take at last much less Like the 〈◊〉 that requested five hundred Oaks of the King 〈◊〉 ●uild him an House when as one hundred was enough and it may he too much After these Transactions the King accepted and 〈◊〉 to his Grace Sir John Eyvile and several 〈◊〉 some of them named before among the 〈◊〉 Party Accord was also made between 〈◊〉 the Kings Son and the Earl of Glocester Ther● 〈◊〉 all Fortresses and other Defences before made 〈◊〉 and the places adjoyning pull'd up 〈◊〉 my Author and destroyed and the Earl with all other Souldiers departed After things thus set 〈…〉 and Rest except that some yet kept the 〈◊〉 of Ely the King Rides to Shrewsbury and 〈◊〉 there a Season to commune of matters between him and Lewellin Prince of Wales While he there 〈◊〉 I find that a Writ was directed to Sir Aleyn 〈◊〉 Mayor of London eight days before Michaelm●● from the King charging him that the Citizens should not proceed to Election of new Sheriffs till 〈◊〉 coming to London but to suffer the old to abide still in Office By this we may guess at the honourable Sheriffs Power even in those days and beleive that the Court thought it convenient for their interest● in those unsetled times to influence the Election what they might What else means the Kings command to defer the Election till his coming to Town And indeed we may perceive by the History th●● there was medling to the purpose the following year for the King himself instead of permitting 〈◊〉 free Election did in effect put in two Sheriffs of 〈◊〉 own nomination For the Mayor was commande● to present to the King six Persons able to be 〈◊〉 it may be it was also privately intimated to hi● whom they should be and out of them the 〈◊〉 chose two to be Sheriffs William de Durham 〈◊〉 Walter Henry and caused them to be sworn 〈◊〉 they should gather the profits of the City and give a true Account before the Barons of the Excheque● But for this the Court seem to have had a 〈◊〉 plausible pretence from some disorders lately co●mitted in the City As indeed they appear by th● History of this Kings Reign very ready either ●● find occasion for pretences or else to make 〈◊〉 that they might seize the Cities Charter and ●fter restore it again for a good round sums of Money The Disorders in London above mention'd wer● occasion'd through variance falling out between the Fellowships of Goldsmiths and Taylors in November in the fifty third year of this King reckoning with my Author from the usual time of the Mayors e●tring into his Mayoralty This variance was so grea● that it grew to the making of Parties so that with the Taylors held the Craft of Stainers with the Goldsmiths held another Fellowship or Craft By means whereof much people nightly gathered together in the Streets in Arms. At length as if before appointed there met one night of the said Parties upon the number of five hundred Men on both sides and ran together with such violence that some were slaim and many wounded To this purport I find it related Then upon outcry made the Sheriffs with a strength of other Commons came to them and took certain of them and sent them to the Prisons Upon the Morrow such search was made that most of the cheif causers of that Fray were taken and 〈◊〉 into Ward Upon the Friday following Katherines 〈◊〉 at the Sessions kept at Newgate by the Mayor 〈◊〉 de Broke Justice and others were many of 〈◊〉 Persons Arraigned of Felony and and some of them cast and hang'd Among them was likewise 〈◊〉 one Godfrey de Beverlay who had helped to 〈◊〉 of them Thus the Accessary is not seldom thought a● guilty as the Theif On the Morrow after St. James's day the King d●●charged as writes my Author Sir Aleyn Souch ●●yor and made Stephen Edworth Constable of the T●wer and Custos of the City of Londrn Fabian after whom I most write hath left us the Names of a Mayor and Sheriffs affixt to every year of this Henry's Reign yet he likewise gives us to understand that of these Rulers of the City after the year that Thomas Fytz Thomas was Mayor there are divers opinions For after some Writers continues he from that year viz. forty eight till the fifty fifth of King Henry's Reign in which year John Adrian Draper was Mayor they were all Guardians and no Mayors and who so was then Constable of the Tower

Citizens dis●greement But if such was the effect of the Ci●izens contest what then may we think of those who ●urposely create those differences and stir up danger●us animosities among them upon slight trivial ●orn out pretences that from the like cause or occasion the like effect may follow At Candlemas by discreet and wise peaceable means the forenamed Sir Walter Harvy was set in Authority as Major and so remained the whole year after In the third year the King confirmed the Liberties of the City and granted some new Thus you see after a storm comes fair weather In this year we meet with a Relation concerning Walter Harvy how that in the first year of this King after long controversy and strife with the Aldermen he was made Major of London at a Folkmoot or Common-Hall at Pauls-Cross and so continued that year but in this third year occasion was found to remember and as the event seems to intimate revenge it For being accused of divers perjuries and other detestable deeds contrary to his Oath for them and for making Assemblies of the Commons who favour'd him he was depriv'd of his Aldermanship and turn'd out of the City Council for ever and for keeping the Kings peace within the City for the term of his life was bound to the good behaviour upon the suretiship of twelve persons 'T is not unusual for the Commonalty and heads of the City to be at difference each with other Here 's one who seems a promoter of the Commons power over-power'd himself by his Enemies for making assemblies of the Commons and other Crimes objected to him true or feigned I know not however thence was taken a pretence to thrust him out of his former power These Folkmoots or Assemblies of the Commons seem to have been very unpleasing t● the chief Rulers of the City and their power disgusted as may be guess'd from the fore-pass'd transactions in King Henry's days where we may remember that the Commons were the men wh● had power allotted them by the Parliament at their Folkmoot or Common-hal to grant the King Licence to depart out of the Land for a Season 'T were they who most firmly adher'd to the Barons standing up in defence of those Parliament Statues made at Oxford but few of the chief Rulers of the City comparatively are noted to have appear'd openly in that fam'd contest of the Barons War In the fourth year occasion was taken against Michael Tony upon some demeaours of his in the Welch War to accuse him of Treason of which he was arraign'd judg'd and condemn'd and after drawn hang'd and quartered This man doubtless had been a noted stickler in the Barons War for I find one of that Name among the five persons so long kept in Prison in Windsor Tower after the Barons overthrow till mony bought them out as is before related Princes once highly offended may openly profess to forgive the offending party but they do not however so soon forget him Tho David pardoned Shimei during his life and swore to him not to put him to death with the Sword yet as good a Man as he was he charg'd his Son Solomon to bring down his hoary head to the grave with blood and so accordingly we find an occasion was afterwards taken by Solomon to revenge his former cursing his Father David by commanding Benaiah who went out and fell upon him that he dyed This year was the famous Statute of Mortmain first enacted that no man should give Lands or Rents to the Church without the Kings Special Licence which Statute had afterwards many additions annext to it to make it the stronger For the Lay-fee was in great danger to be devour'd by the Spiritualty such Arts did the Clergy use on mens minds to augment their power and Riches Tho now our Courts of Law are fixt at Westminster yet in these Ancient times it was not so for we read that this King in his sixth year remov'd his Courts of Kings-Bench Chancery Common-Pleas and Exchequer to Shrewsbury and afterwards return'd them back again to the no small damage of the Records thus carried to and fro This King held his Parliament at London in his seventh year for Reformation of his Coyn much clip't and diminish'd This storm fell chiefly upon the Jews by reason of the Inquest charg'd in London to enquire of this matter Whereupon were cast two hundred and ninety seven persons before the Major and other Justices sitting at London and afterwards Executed at sundry times and places My Author hath left upon Record that among these there were but three Englishmen all the rest were Jews or Jews born in England Famous is the 12th year for the Conquering and sub●●●●ing of Wales to the English Scepter and div●sion of it b● King Edward into Shires whereupon were ordain'd Sheriffs and other Officers therein as were then us'd in England David Brother to Lewellyn late Prince of Wales who was condemned to be drawn hang'd and quarter'd as a chief ●●irrer and beginner of the Welsh War in time of a Parliament held at Shrewsbury was shortly after Executed and his head sent to London to be s●t by his Brothers which had been order'd to be plac'd the ●ear before on London-Tower In this year was Edward of Carnarvan born the first of our English Kings since William the first that I read of publickly unking'd and depos'd by his own Subjects The great Conduit standing against Saint Thomas of Acres in Cheapside owes his foundation to this year The 13th year may be noted for the Kings seizing the Franchises and Liberties of London into his own hands on the day kept in Memory of Saint Pauls Conversion so that he discharged the Major Gregory Rokisle and admitted for Custos or Guardian of the City Stephen Sandewich who continued till the Monday following the Purification of the Virgin Mary when being discharg'd Sir John Breton s●ands upon Record charg'd for the residue of the year My Author writes that the cause of this displeasure the King bore to the City is not shewn of a certainty He mentions an old Pamphlet whereby it appears that the Major took bribes of the Bakers and suffer'd them to sell bread lacking six ounces in a penny Loaf for which the King was sore displeased but to him this seem'd no convenient cause that the Liberties of the City should be seiz'd for one man's offence Wherefore he rather supposeth it was for a more grievous cause However it is observable from History that it was a Common thing in Elder times to seize the Cities Charters on pretences slight enough of any sense till the Citizens grew so wise as at convenient seasons to procure new grants and graces to prevent such seizures for the future And that it is not still so feasable and practicable is the grief I believe and heart-burning of some in the world The 14th year of this King may be accounted famous for the Statutes called Additamenta Gloucestriae made at a