1691

Summary

[R224] Saturday January 3 1690[/1]. Upon St. Thomas day the 21 of December last there being about fifteene Vacancies in the Common Counsell by death and otherwise, a new Choice was made, and good men chosen

There was also a new Election Ordred by the Lord Mayor in Dowgate Ward of which Sir Thomas Kensey is Alderman, and it was made, and five of the Eight unduely Elected formerly were left out, and three of them, or three of the like principles were chosen.

There was also a new Election Ordred to be made in Aldersgate parish where Sir Peter Rich is Alderman, and fifteene there were formerly unduely chosen, but the said Alderman refused to make a new Election there, alledging that the matter was before the Parliament. If fifteene good men had been chosen in Aldersgate (which was very probable) those together with the five in Dowgate and the fifteene that filled up the Vacancies, these 35 would have been a ballance in the Common Counsell.

Parli : [Parliament] The house of Commons has past a Bill about the Accompts and appointed nine Commissioners to inspect them, to wit Sir Thomas Clarges, Sir Benjamin Newland, Sir Mathew Andrews, Sir Samuel Bernardiston, Sir Peter Collidon, Mr. Paul Foley, Mr. Robert Harley, Sir Robert Rich and Colonell Austin. Sir Thomas Clarges and Sir Benjamin Newland are of a Sense different from all the rest. They have Ordred also the Commissioners to have 500l a man if they sit to go through with it. They have sent this Bill up to the house of Lords, and the Lords frame to name Commissioners of their own, and if they do it's very probable the Bill will be lost, for the Commoners never yet admitted the Lords to name Commissioners of their own in money matters.

Massacr : [A Massacre] About three Weekes since there was two persons apprehended, and charged with a designe to Assacinate his Majesty[.] they were examined at the Council Table, or by the Secretary of State, and afterwards were sent to be Examined by the Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench, and I thinke of the Common Pleas also, but there was no Witnesses appeared against them before the Lord Chief Justice, and so for want of Evidence they were discharged. I have not heard why the Witnesses did not appear.