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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	call_v	lord_n	name_n	4,012	5	5.2726	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50286	The Matters of fact in the present election of sheriffs, for the year ensuing, faithfully reported and the micarriages of my lord mayor and some other persons in this matter, briefly declared.		1682 (1682)	Wing M1304; ESTC R10733	6,990	4

Proclamation yet his Lordship would not rest satisfied with what was then done meerly as is to be supposed because the Election fell upon Mr. Papillon and Mr. Duboise and therefore obtained an Order from the King for a New Hall For missing what he had designed in getting ●he present Sheriffs turned out by a Convention intended to have been made up of one party of men which would have been called a Common-Hall had not other Citizens upon smelling the project assemble● without warning he had no other Retreat left but to apply to his Majesty for an Order to begin again And tho we have nothing to say concerning his Majesties Order save that the p●in●ing it for C. R. by which persons upon the first view are apt to think they meant Charles Re● did not express that veneration for Majesty as is fit yet we must take the liberty to charge my Lord Mayor That after he had so often interrupted the Election and broken in upon the fre●dom of the Cities choice he did at last labour and as much as in him lay compass the dissolving and cancelling of an Election that had been duly made To this we may add his Lordships refusing to hear divers Citizens speak when the Hall first assembled on Friday morning and he was upon the Hustings tho it be his Duty to hear every man that hath any thing to offer and it be their Right and Priviledg to say whatsoever they will provided it be agreeable to the matter before them and within the bounds and compass of Law Nor can there be a greater evidence of the unreasonableness both of the faction whom his Lordship hath espoused in this whole matter and of his indiscretion in heading such a bruitish as well as a violent sort of men than their refusing to suffer an Act of Parliament to be read tho often proposed so to be and this after the whole Hall had hearkened to the reading of His Majesties Order with the greatest respect and profoundest silence imaginable And in the next place how can my Lord Mayor answer either to God or his own Conscience in keeping so many thousands together from Nine in the morning till past Six in the evening when divers contracted sickness and some lost their lives by reason of the excessive heat without coming to a resolve in himself whether he would acquiesce in the Election that was declared on Wednesday before or whether he would insist either upon a new Poll or plead his having chosen one Sheriff by drinking to him and that all which he would allow the Commons was to elect another However as we may understand the capacity of the man by his having his Gown many times on to come down upon the Hustings and pretend to adjourn the Hall and as often off as willing to rest contented in the choice of Mr. Papilion and Mr. Duboise which the Sheriffs had declared two days before with all the wonted solemnity so his sending for for Sir G. Jefferies and Mr. Saunders known enemies to the City Rights and professedly for the overthrow of the Charter to advise him and his submitting to their Opinions which they durst not subscribe against the Judgment as well as the irrefragrable Reasons of the Recorder Mr. Polexfen and Mr. Williams who signified their readiness to put their hands to what they said are things which he will not be able to account for either before a Parliament or at the Bars in Westminster-Hall And what will the world think of his taking his last resolution from a Letter which he received from a Minister of State seeing as it is an high offence against the Statute of Westminster 3 Ed. 1. to interpose in or disturb the Election of any Officers so it is a high offence against the truth reposed in him and the integrity of a Lord Mayor of London to take any other measures th●●●●hat are agreeable to the safety and welfare of the City A●●●●…o we want a name whereby to call his Lordships retracting his word after he had consented ●… the having the Poll go on a new for two to be chosen out of the Four who had been named 〈…〉 e question not but to see a Judicature in England that will both know by what Title to st● and to call him to an account for renouncing all Faith as well as Justice For it is observable that he had not only agreed on Friday night to have the Poll proceed for the Election of Two out of Four but he renewed his agreement as to that particular to divers worthy Citizens on Saturday morning But what shall be said of a man who upon tbe coming of Sir L. J. receded from his Word as well as from Law and City-Custom Yea it is no small aggravation of his Crime that he re-assumed the pretence of his having chosen one Sheriff by v●rtue of his P●●rogative after he had heard the Secretary affirm that they must take that ●ourse tho rueret Coelum all things should run into confusion And should his Lordships Memory fail him either as to the Polls being demanded for all Four or as to his granting it there are several persons who are able to remember it and whose words are beyond all suspition of falshood The next thing whereof we may justly accuse my Lord Mayor is his usurping the managing of the Poll not only against Law and usage but when the Common-Hall had devolved it upon and lodged it in the Sheriffs For such was the modesty of those worthy Gentlemen that they would not undertake it tho Custum would have justified them in doing so till they had consulted the Hall and been empowered by them as those in whom the Authority does reside over all Affairs which come before them Here is an Arbitrary Power with a witness not only to claim what his Ancestors never did and which constant usage directly gainsays but to do it in opposition to the vote of three parts in four of the Hall who entrusted the Sheriffs with the taking the Suffrages and declaring the Election And as he who engageth once in illegal courses knows not where he shall stop so his Lordship having advanced thus far without fear in himself or Law to countenance him proceeded farther in taking the boldness to declare Mr. North Sheriff not only without his being confirmed but when 2414. Citizens had expresly declared and polled against his Confirmation Nay as it this had not been the height of Extravagancy his Lordship pretends to declare Mr. Box Sheriff tho he had not 1400 Hands whereas Mr. Papillon and Mr. Dubois● had upwards of 2400 in the Sheriffs Books besides some hundreds that polled for them in those that were stiled his Lordships So that he hath rob'd the Freemen of the Right of chusing both the Sheriffs and instead of proposing only one to them whom they may confirm or not as they see good he hath by an arbitrary and illegal power assumed unto himself the imposing two