1165 Pepys, 11 April.

M600 The City's declaration and vindication, 30 April, 1660.

1166 Journal 41, fos. 225-229b. "The city of London have put out a
declaration wherein they do disclaim their owning any other
government but that of a king, Lords and Commons."--Pepys, Diary, 2
May. Four printed copies (out of the 1,000 ordered by the court to
be printed and published) are preserved in the Guildhall library.

M601 Letter from Charles to the City read before the Common Council, 1
May, 1660.

1167 Journal 41, fo. 230; Remembrancia ix, 1 (Index, p. 423.)

M602 The Declaration of Breda, 4 April.

1168 Journal 41, fo. 230b; Remembrancia ix, 2 (Index, p. 423).

M603 Thanks of the city for the king's letter and declaration, 1 May,
1660.

1169 Journal 41, fo. 231; Cal. State Papers Dom. (1659-1660), p. 430.

M604 The Convention Parliament sends to borrow L100,000 of the city, 2
May.

1170 Journal 41, fo. 231b.

1171 Diary, 16 May.

M605 City gifts to the king, the Dukes of York and Gloucester, etc.

1172 Journal 41, fos. 231b, 232, 232b, 233b; Pepys, Diary, 4 May.

M606 Commissioners to the Hague, May, 1660.

1173 The commissioners appointed (3 May) were the following:--Thomas
Adams, alderman; William Wild, esq., Recorder; John Robinson and
Antony Bateman, aldermen; Theophilus Biddulph, William Vincent and
Thomas Bludworth, esquires; Major Thomas Chamberlen, Mr. Richard
Ford and Colonel Bromefield. Of these Alderman Robinson, Recorder
Wild, Biddulph and Vincent were members of parliament, the consent
of which had to be obtained before they set sail. Six more
commissioners were added the following day (4 May), viz., Alderman
Reynardson, Alderman Langham, Sir Thomas Foote, Sir James Bunce,
Alderman Wale and William Bateman, esquire. Foote declined the
honour.--Journal 41, fos. 231b, 232.

1174 Journal 41, fo. 234; Clarendon (ed. 1839), p. 962.

M607 Charles proclaimed in the city, 8 May, 1660.

1175 Pepys, Diary, 8 May; Repertory 67, fo. 74b. "Branch" denotes the
figured pattern of the damask.

1176 Journal House of Commons, viii, 16.

M608 Charles enters London, 29 May.

1177 The sum of L30 was afterwards voted as compensation for damage done
to private grounds by making a passage through them for the royal
procession to pass on its way from St. George's and Walw