FACSIMILE OF WRIT AND RETURN
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London and the Kingdom
A HISTORY
DERIVED MAINLY FROM THE ARCHIVES AT GUILDHALLIN THE CUSTODY OF THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF LONDON.
BY
REGINALD R. SHARPE, D.C.L.,
RECORDS CLERK IN THE OFFICE OF THE TOWN CLERK OF THE CITY OFLONDON; EDITOR OF "CALENDAR OF WILLS ENROLLEDIN THE COURT OF HUSTING," ETC.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. III.
PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE CORPORATION UNDER THE DIRECTION
OF THE LIBRARY COMMITTEE.
LONDON
LONGMANS, GREEN & Co.
AND NEW YORK: 15 EAST 16TH STREET.
1895.
All rights reserved.
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 London:
                   Printed by Blades, East & Blades,
                     23, Abchurch Lane, E.C.
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 CONTENTS.
CHAPTER XXXV.
Accession of George I.—The Old Pretender.—Impeachmentof Ministers.—Tory re-action.—End of JacobiteRebellion.—The King's Picture and Statue.—TheSeptennial Act.—Trial of the Earl of Oxford.—DisputedElections.—The right of the City to dischargelaw costs incurred in Elections over the Chamber,questioned.—Paying "Scot" defined.—An Aldermaninsulted by the Military.—The South Sea Company.—Supremacyof Walpole.—Fears of another Jacobiterising.—The Election Act, II George I, c. 18.—Deathof the King.
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CHAPTER XXXVI.
Accession of George II.—Walpole and the Queen.—Dissentersand the Corporation and Test Acts.—Walpole'sExcise Bill.—Unpopularity of Billers, Mayor.—Disputeswith Spain.—Jenkin's ear.—The SpanishConvention.—"Leonidas" Glover.—War with Spaindeclared.—Capture of Porto Bello.—George Heathcote.—TheAldermanic Veto again.—Resignation ofWalpole.—War declared with France.—The YoungPretender.—"Black Friday."—The Victory of Culloden.—CityAddress.—Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.—TheNewcastle Administration.—The National MilitiaBill.—A tax on Plate.—The loss of Minorca.—Newcastlesucceeded by Pitt.—Execution of Byng.—Civic[Pg iv]honours for Pitt and Legge.—Coalition of Pitt andNewcastle.—Conquest of Canada.
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CHAPTER XXXVII.
Accession of George III.—The fall of Pitt.—AldermanBeckford.—Unpopularity of Bute.—The King andQueen at the Guildhall.—John Wilkes.—War withSpain.—The Peace of Paris.—Resignation of Bute.—Wilkesand the "North Briton."—No. 45 burnt atthe Royal Exchange.—Conduct of the Lord Mayor.—Wilkes's"Essay on Woman."—Wilkes Expelled theHouse.—Is outlawed.—Pitt created Earl of Chatham,proposes to bring in an East India Bill.—Wilkes'sletters to the Duke of Grafton, is elected M.P. forMiddlesex.—Committed to the King's Bench.—Sentencepronounced.—Wilkes elected Alderman.—Againexpelled the House.—Is th                        
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