hearing of the _Quo Warranto_ case, 7 Feb., 1683.

1532 Referring to the taking of market tolls.

M785 The speech of the City's Recorder.

1533 Set out in full in Journal 50, fos. 40b-60b.

M786 Speech of the attorney-general at the second hearing, 27 April.

1534 This is the date given by Howell (State Trials, viii, p. 1147), but
according to Luttrell, the second hearing took place on the 30th
April and the 1st May.

1535 Howell, State Trials, viii, pp. 1147, 1148.

M787 Judgment pronounced against the City, 12 June, 1683.

M788 Minutes of the Common Council reflecting on the late king ordered to
be expunged from the Journals, 6 June, 1683.

1536 Journal 50, fos. 32-38. See frontispiece to this volume.

M789 City address to the king, 18 June, 1683.

1537 So says the city record.--Journal 50, fo. 81. According to Luttrell
the motion was only carried by a majority of 18 votes.

1538 Journal 50, fo. 82. A copy of the petition and the lord keeper's
reply on behalf of his majesty (printed and published by his
majesty's special command) is among tracts preserved in the
Guildhall Library (A* No. 32).

M790 Speech of the lord keeper.

M791 The City accept the king's terms, 20 June, 1683.

1539 Journal 50, fo. 83; Repertory 88, fo. 152.

M792 The mayor and others arrested, 24 April.

1540 Repertory 88, fos. 13, 59; Luttrell, Diary, i, 235, 240.

1541 Luttrell, Diary, i, 256.

M793 Indignation of the Court of Aldermen and the Common Council.

1542 Repertory 88, fo. 128.

1543 Journal 50, fo. 31b.

1544 Id., fo. 31.

M794 Pritchard recovers L10,000 damages, 6 Nov., 1684.

1545 "An exact account of the trial between Sir William Pritchard ... and
Thomas Papillon ... in an action upon the case ... at the Guildhall,
6th of November, 1684."--Among printed tracts preserved in the
Guildhall Library (A* No. 2); Luttrell, Diary, 6 Nov. (i, 319).

M795 The Rye House Plot, 1683.

1546 According to Luttrell (i, 262), the plot was discovered about the
19th June.

1547 Journal 50, fo. 84.

1548 Trial of Alderman Cornish on a charge of high treason. Goodenough's
evidence.--Howell, State Trials, xi, 426.

1549 Journal 50, fo. 83b.

M796 The question of surrender or no surrender of the City's franchise,
Sept.-Oct., 1683.

1550 The opinions are fully set out in Journal 50, fos. 96-100b.

1551 Journa