ted on the matter. The merchants
afterwards made a similar application to the Common Council, but
with no better success.

M893 City address to the queen and another loan of L300,000, 15 Aug.,
1693.

1768 Journal 51, fos. 272b-273b, 275.

M894 The queen invited to lord mayor's banquet, 30 Oct., 1693.

1769 Repertory 97, fo. 496.

1770 Repertory 97, fo. 503.

M895 The king's return to England, 29 Oct., 1693.

1771 Negotiations were opened in the following year for acquiring the
Grocers' Hall as a mansion house for the mayor for the time
being.--Journal 52, fo. 14.

1772 Luttrell, iii, 215, 216.

1773 Id., iii, 218.

M896 The rise of the East India Company, 1600-1689.

1774 "Memoirs of Thomas Papillon," by A.F.W. Papillon (Guildhall
Library), pp. 78-81.

1775 Macaulay, chap, xviii.

M897 A New Company formed, 1689.

M898 Rivalry between the Old and the New Company.

1776 Journal House of Commons, x, 655, 661.

1777 This bribe appears to have failed, for notice was actually served on
the company in April, 1692.--Luttrell, ii, 357, 433.

1778 Journal House of Commons, x, 835.

1779 Luttrell, iii, 203.

M899 Alderman Sir Thomas Cook governor of the Old Company in place of
Child.

1780 He was elected alderman of Queenhithe ward on the 11th February,
1692, in succession to Sir John Lawrence, deceased (Repertory 96,
fo. 153). A goldsmith by trade (at the sign of the Griffin in Change
Alley), he became one of the greatest merchants of London. He was a
near kinsman of Sir Josiah Child, and sat for Colchester from 1689
down to Queen Anne's first parliament (Parliamentary Returns, 1878,
part i, pp. 556, 580, 587, 594, 602). He was sheriff in 1692-3, but
was never lord mayor.

M900 The stoppage of the ship "Redbridge," 21 Oct., 1693.

1781 The charter was dated the 11th November, 1693.--See Journal House of
Commons, xi, 43.

1782 Journal House of Commons, xi, 43.

1783 Id., xi, 49, 50.

1784 Id., xi, 64, 65.

1785 In 1813 the City petitioned parliament that trade with India and
China might be exclusively with the port of London.--Journal 87, fos.
208 _seq._, 442b _seq._, 457 _seq._; Journal House of Commons,
lxviii, 145.

M901 The City's petition _re_ debts to orphans, 1691.

1786 Journal 51, fos. 142-144; Luttrell, ii, 307.

1787 Journal House of Commo