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The Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen unanimouſly agreed to give Obedience to His Majeſties Letter, and to ſend two of their Members, Sir William Turner, and Sir John Moore to wait upon His Majeſty, and to deliver Him thoſe two Petitions.
This being over, at Eleven of the Clock the Common Council ſate, and having diſpatch'd ſome City Buſineſs, Notice was taken of ſome Petitioners being at the Door, and a Motion was made that they might be called in.
Mr. Papillon and four more brought in the Petition; It was,
(1.) That Thanks might be given to thoſe that had ſerved for the City in the late Houſe of Commons at Oxford.
That the Petition delivered in on the 28th. of April might be taken into Conſideration.
The point of Thanks being firſt propoſed, was carried in the Affirmative; but not without Oppoſition.
The ſecond point, where the Queſtion, Whether the Petition preſented the 28th. of April ſhould be taken into Conſideration AT THIS TIME, or not? was long Conteſted; at laſt they came to a Poll, which happened to be thus;
Thoſe that were not for taking the Petition into Conſideration did plead,
Firſt, That the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen had already laid it aſide, together with another Petition, preſented the ſame 28th day of April, wherein the Petitioners pretended to nothing elſe, but that His Majeſty might have their humble Thanks given Him for His late Gracious Declaration.
2. That the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen had, but an hour or two before, reſolved in Obedience to His Majeſty, to ſend both the ſaid Petitions of the 28th of April to His Majeſty to diſpoſe of as He ſhould think fit; Well hoping thereby to prevent any occaſion of difference that might ariſe there
3. That the Petition now contended for, containing Matters of State, no way proper for the Debate of that Aſſembly. Thoſe that were againſt it, proteſted, that they were come thither to Treat and Reſolve of the concerns of the City, and were ready and deſirous to do their duty in that behalf; But if any others would meddle with Matters of State (ſuch as the ſaid Peall thoſe Aldermen and moſt of the Common Council that were againſt taking ſaid Petition into Conſideration.
The other party went on with the Conſideration of the ſaid Petition, and appointed a Committee to draw up an Addreſs to His Majeſty, which being prepared, was read once, and without more ado paſt, and was voted to be preſented to His Majeſty, by the hands of Sir Robert Clayton, and ſix or ſeven more.
This is the Sum of what paſt at the ſaid Common Council, by which it may be Remark'd, that notwithſtanding the ſur-prize of a great part of the Court, as to the Matter to be Debated, and notwithſtanding the Change that was made in the laſt Election of Common Council-men, that thoſe who carNemine contradicente) came ſhort of this, in the Court of Aldermen, by four voices, and carried it but by 18 in the Common Council.
London, Printed for VValter Davis, 1681.