ngs of Common Hall, 19 Sept.

M772 Peter Rich a candidate _loco_ Box.

1511 Luttrell, Diary, i, 220, 221.

1512 Journal 49, fo. 347.

M773 Pilkington and Shute to appear before the King's Bench, 20 Sept.,
1682.

1513 Luttrell, i, 221.

M774 Rich enters into bond to take office, 26 Sept., 1682.

1514 Repertory 87, fo. 233.

M775 North and Rich sworn into office, 28 Sept.

1515 Luttrell, Diary, 28 Sept., 1682 (i, 224).

1516 Repertory 87, fo. 253.

M776 The Mercers' Company and Sheriff North.

1517 Luttrell, i, 223.

M777 Sworn information of Henry Cornish as to what took place in the
Guildhall, 28 Sept., 1682.

1518 Information (dated 2 Oct.) preserved in the Town Clerk's office.

1519 Luttrell, i, 225.

M778 Election of Pritchard, mayor, _loco_ Moore, Sept., 1682.

1520 For his "prudence and courage" displayed during his mayoralty
Charles granted him an augmentation of arms, viz., on a canton gules
"one of our lyons of England." Letters Patent, dated 28 Sept.,
1683.--Journal 50, fo. 119; Letter Book ZZ, fo. 7.

1521 These are the numbers as given in a return made by the scrutineers
on behalf of Gold and Cornish, dated 24 Oct.--See Printed Tracts,
Guildhall Library, vol. 12, No. 9 and A* No. 30*. They vary slightly
from those given by Luttrell (Diary, i, 226).

1522 Repertory 87, fo. 258.

1523 Luttrell, Diary, 4 Oct., 1682 (i, 226).

1524 Journal 49, fo. 349.

M779 A _mandamus_ to swear in Gold or Cornish refused.

1525 Luttrell, Diary, 24 Nov., 1682 (i, 240).

M780 The Duke of York's action against Pilkington for slander, 24 Nov.,
1682.

1526 Luttrell, i, 192, 240, 241.

1527 Repertory 88, fo. 38b.

M781 Pilkington and others fined for disturbance last Midsummer-day, 16
Feb., 1683.

1528 Howell, State Trials, ix, 187-294; Luttrell, Diary, i, 250, 257,
262-3; Kennet, Hist., iii, 408.

M782 Sir Patience Ward tried and convicted of perjury, 19 May, 1683.

1529 Luttrell, Diary, 19 and 21 May, 1683. According to Burnet (i, 338),
Ward had deposed that "to the best of his remembrance these words
were not spoken by Pilkington," and thereupon Jeffreys had brutally
remarked that Ward's invention was better than his memory.

M783 The new Common Council, 21 Dec., 1682.

1530 Journal 49, fos. 383, 383b.

1531 Luttrell, Diary, Dec., 1682 (ed. 1857, i, 242).

M784 The first