n of L100,000.
Sebastian Hervey and his daughter.
The Thirty Years' War.
Loan of L100,000 to the Elector Palatine.
The Spanish Ambassador ill-treated.
The City and the Spanish Match.
Concealed Lands.
The City and Mansfield's Expedition.
CHAPTER XXI.
A loan of L60,000 to Charles I.
Failure of Cadiz Expedition.
A loan refused.
The City called upon to furnish ships and men.
The Forced Loan.
Expedition to Rochelle.
Royal Contract.
Doctor Lamb.
Assassination of Duke of Buckingham.
Tonnage and Poundage.
Birth of Prince Charles.
Demand for Ship money.
Richard Chambers.
Forfeiture of City's Irish Estate.
Inspeximus Charter of Charles I.
The Short Parliament.
Attempt to force a City loan.
Four Aldermen committed to prison.
Impeachment of the Recorder.
Riot at Lambeth.
The Aldermen released.
More City Loans.
The Treaty of Ripon.
CHAPTER XXII.
Meeting of the Long Parliament.
The City and the Earl of Strafford.
The Scottish Commissioners in the City.
Letters to the City from Speaker Lenthall.
Trial and Execution of Strafford.
The "Protestation" accepted by the city.
The "Friendly Assistance."
The Scottish army paid off.
Reversal of judgment of forfeiture of Irish Estate.
The City and the Bishops.
Charles in the City.
Riots at Westminster.
The trained bands called out.
The attempted arrest of the five members.
The King at the Guildhall.
Panic in the City.
Skippon in command of the City Forces.
Charles quits London.
The Rebellion in Ireland.
The Militia Ordinance.
The City and Parliament.
A loan of L100,000 raised in the City.
Gurney, the Lord Mayor, deposed.
Charles sets up his Standard at Nottingham.
CHAPTER XXIII.
Commencement of the Civil War.
Military activity in the City.
Pennington, Mayor
Battle of Edge-Hill.
Another loan to Parliament.
A cry for Peace.
A City Deputation to the King at Oxford.
The City's "Weekly Assessment"
Erection of Fortifications.
Volunteer horse and foot.
Waller's Plot.
Disputes over the City's Militia.
Waller appointed Command-in-Chief.
Essex and the Common Council
The City and the Siege of Gloucester.
Courageous conduct of Londoners at Newbury.
Disaffection of the trained bands.
Brooke's Plot.
The Committee of Both Kingdoms.
The City's Weekly Mea