(1663-1664), p. 94.

M648 City loan of L50,000, Sept., 1663.

1267 Remembrancia, ix, 66 (Index, p. 201): Repertory 69, fo. 190b.
Warrant to secure repayment of the loan, 28 Sept.--Cal. State Papers
Dom. (1663-1664), p. 280.

M649 The king's return to London after a progress, Oct., 1663.

1268 Precept of the mayor to the companies to prepare for the event, 28
Sept.--Journal 45, fo. 316b. Letter from Sir John Robinson, the
mayor, to Williamson enclosing one to the Lord Chamberlain, 23
Sept.--Cal. State Papers Dom. (1663-1664), p. 278; Pepys, Diary, 28
Sept.

M650 The French ambassador insulted at the lord mayor's banquet. 29 Oct.,
1663.

1269 Journal 45, fo. 332b.

1270 Letter from the Comte de Comminges to Louis XIV, 9 Nov., 1663,
printed in Appendix to Pepys's Diary, 4th ed. (1854), pp. 346, 347.

M651 State visit of the lord mayor to the French ambassador, 11 Nov.

1271 The French ambassador to Louis XIV, 12/22* Nov.--Appendix to Pepys'
Diary, (4th ed.), pp. 347-348.

M652 War declared, against the Dutch, 22 Feb., 1665.

1272 Journal 45, fos. 389b, 398, 423b; Repertory 70, fo. 5b. "The city
did last night very freely lend the king L100,000 without any
security but the king's word, which was very noble."--Pepys, Diary,
26 Oct., 1664. In making the second advance the Common Council
desired to express their sense of his majesty's recent favour
towards the city in preventing a new bridge being built over the
Thames between Lambeth and Westminster, "which as is conceived would
have been of dangerous consequence to the state of this city."--_Cf._
Cal. State Papers Dom. (1664-1665), p. 43.

1273 Journal House of Commons, viii, 568.

1274 Ambassador Van Goch (or Gogh) to the States General, 6/16* March,
1665.--Cal. State Papers Dom. (1664-1665), p. 242.

1275 Journal 46, fos. 19b, 43b, 44.

M653 The loss of the ship "The London."

1276 Pepys, Diary, 8 March, 1665.

M654 The City's offer to replace her.

1277 Journal 46, fo. 68; Repertory 70, fo. 74.

1278 Diary, 10 March, 1665.

1279 Captain John Taylor, who was selected immediately, expressed his
willingness to abate L1,000 of the whole sum to be paid for the
ship, the contract price being L12 per ton.--MS. Record "Ship
London," fos. 3b-5b.

1280 Journal 46, fo. 26.

1281 Id., fo. 99.

1282 "He [M