The Observator in a delemma, that while he justifies the Lord Mayor and his aldermen, he reflects on Mr. Box, and while he vindicates Mr. Box, he pleads the protectors cause against the Lord Mayor and his aldermen

The Observator in a delemma, that while he justifies the Lord Mayor and his aldermen, he reflects on Mr. Box, and while he vindicates Mr. Box, he pleads the protectors cause against the Lord Mayor and his aldermen

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THE OBSERVATOR IN A DELEMMA, that while he juſtifies the LORD MAYOR and his Aldermen, he reflects on Mr. Box, and while he Vindicates Mr. Box, he pleads the Proteſtors cauſe againſt the Lord Mayor and his Aldermen.

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THE OBSERVATOR IN A DELEMMA, that while he juſtifies the LORD MAYOR and his Aldermen, he reflects on Mr. Box, and while he Vindicates Mr. Box, he pleads the Proteſtors cauſe againſt the Lord Mayor and his Aldermen.

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WHereas the Guide to the Inferiour Clergy, in his Obſervator, Number 206, does inſinuate as if the print on the back ſide of the Citizens juſt Proteſtation, did reflect on my Lord Mayor's Aldermen as Perjured, which nothing can be more Malicious, there being not one word that does in the leaſt ſound like it, but 'tis like him; Now Mr. Obſervator, if I am not miſtaken, I have found you in ſome of your Prints, if not expreſly, yet implicitly declare, that any Subject (thô he pretends never ſo much Loyalty, and faithful performance of his Oath of Allegiance) that ſhall refuſe when Legally qualified, to ſerve his Majeſty in any Legal Office, when Legally called thereunto, doth not only forfeit his Loyalty, but break his Oath of Allegiance too; now Mr. Ralph Box having of late been by you in Print declared to be one moſt eminent for Loyalty and Allegiance, which is ſo great a Truth, that I affirm that none but the moſt malicious dare think to the contrary; he hath alſo been declared by my Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen (that is his Party) to be Legally and duely Elected one of the Sheriffs for the Year enſuing, according to the Ancient Laws, Cuſtoms and Uſages of the City; and on Tueſday laſt the aforeſaid Legality of his Election was Confirmed by a hundred and odd Petitioners; now that Mr. Box after the miſſing the Office of Sheriff for two years laſt paſt, is this year declared Legally Choſen, and that Confirmed too by a Cloud of Loyal Witneſſes, ſhould after all refuſe to hold, has put multitudes of Pople to inquire into the Cauſe.

For to queſtion his Loyalty and faithfulneſs to his Oath of Allegiance, is to murder his Reputation, to queſtion his Willingneſs is to give himſelf the Lye, to queſtion his Eſtate is to prejudice his Credit, and to queſtion his Judgment and Underſtanding, his natural and acquired qualifications for ſuch an Office, is to deny the experience of all that know him; Wherefore the moſt Judicious do conclude, that the true reaſon why he refuſed to hold, is from his being ſo faithful to his Oath as a Citizen, and from his ſo much Underſtanding and Experience of the Laws and Cuſtoms of the City, than to hold upon ſuch an Election, which if true, as moſt certain it is, for I challenge you or any other to ſhew any reaſon for his not holding beſides the Ilegallity of his Election, and then what is become of your reflection on the back ſide of the Proteſtation? for 'tis not the declaration of great men, nor a great number of men (without the greateſt number) that can make a Legal thing Illegal, nor an Illegal Act Legal.

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Printed for A. Green. 1682.

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The Observator in a delemma, that while he justifies the Lord Mayor and his aldermen, he reflects on Mr. Box, and while he vindicates Mr. Box, he pleads the protectors cause against the Lord Mayor and his aldermen

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1682

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Wing O109

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— The Observator in a delemma, that while he justifies the Lord Mayor and his aldermen, he reflects on Mr. Box, and while he vindicates Mr. Box, he pleads the protectors cause against the Lord Mayor and his aldermen,

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