WHereas in the LONDON GAZZETTE, published from Thursday May the 6th to Munday May the 10th 1680. The Address of the City of Norwich to the Kings most Excellent Majesty is printed at large, And also this subsequent Paragraph, in these words, viz. The Mayor, Aldermen and Common Council of Norwich have put their Recorder out of his place for opposing this their Address to his Majesty, and hindring his Service.
THese are truly to certifie and inform all Persons, That the said Paragraph is false and scandalous, For that, the said Address was drawn by the Recorders own hand, as presented to his Majesty, without Alteration, Save only that the word Recorder being made part of the Style of the Corporation, was by the Common Council obliterated, and two words more by them altered, which made no material Variance from the Recorders Draught.
And the said Recorder is well known to be a Loyal Person to His Majesty and Government both in Church and State, and alwayes forward in promoting his Majesties Service.
And although he was Voted out of his Recorders place (after the Delivery of the said Address) by the Intemperate Heates of a confederate patty of that Assembly: upon pretended Articles, which none of them durst own, and without hearing his Answer to them: and which as yet he could never know nor see, and are now lost, as the Confederates pretend.
Yet the Mayor and Senior Aldermen, and many of the Better Sort of the Assembly did vigorously oppose the Votes of the other, well knowing he had better deserved from their Corporation: the truth of all which is ready to be made appear, and proved by credible Witnesses, and loyal and obedient Subjects to his Majesty and Government.