kingdom, but I think it will
not come to much." Pepys's surmise proved correct. On the 31st
August he makes the following entry in his diary:--"The Benevolence
proves so little, and an occasion of so much discontent everywhere,
that it had better it had never been set up." His own subscription
towards it was L20.

1228 Cal. State Papers Dom. (1661-1662), p. 38.

1229 Journal 41, fo. 235b; Letter Book UU, fo. 51b.

M636 The mayor and aldermen attend the king touching renewal of charter,
Oct., 1661.

1230 The Corporation Act (2 Stat. 13 Charles II, c. i) mentioned above.

1231 Journal 45, fos. 142, 142b.

1232 The king to the mayor and commissioners, 5 May and 16 June,
1662.--Remembrancia, ix, 45, 46 (Index, pp. 64, 65); Cal. State
Papers Dom. (1661-1662), pp. 362, 408.

M637 Fear of more disturbance by Presbyterians and fanatics, Sept., 1661.

1233 Capt. William Pestell to Sec. Nicholas, 26 September, 1661.--Cal.
State Papers Dom. (1661-1662), pp. 97-98.

1234 Sir Richard Browne, the lord mayor, to Sec. Nicholas, 24 August,
1661.--Cal. State Papers Dom. (1661-1662), p. 70.

1235 Examination of Gracious Franklin and Joshua Jones, 24 October.--Cal.
State Papers Dom. (1661-1662), p. 121.

1236 Cal. State Papers Dom. (1661-1662), pp. 160, 161.

1237 Remembrancia, ix, 34 (Index, p. 550); _Cf._ Cal. State Papers Dom.
(1661-1662), pp. 123-124, where the date of the letter is given as
25 October.

M638 Election of Sir John Frederick, mayor, 29 Sept., 1661.

1238 Journal 45, fo. 115b.

1239 Repertory 67, fo. 314b.

1240 "This lord mayor it seems brings up again the custom of lord mayors
going the day of their instalment to St. Paul's and walking round
about the Crosse and offering something at the altar."--Pepys, Diary,
29 Oct., 1661; as to the ancient custom, see _Liber Albus_ (Rolls
Series), i, 26.

1241 Repertory 67, fo. 326.

M639 Letter from the king touching election of Common Council, 13 Dec.,
1661.

1242 Remembrancia, ix, 37 (Index, p. 90).

M640 Order for expurgation of city's records. 26 Feb., 1662.

1243 Journal 45, fo. 161b; Letter Book UU, fo. 91b; _Cf._ Cal. State
Papers Dom. (1661-1662), p. 287, where the date of the resolution is
given as the 27th February.

M641 Demand of a loan of L200,000, 7 Feb., 1662.

1244 Journal 45, fos. 159-160b; _Cf._