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thinke that sucli a proceetling as that 

 would have opened tlie eyes of all the 

 nation, concern inij; him, and tliat even 

 they wlio had tlie woist iuclinatious for 

 him, wlio because tiiey found iheui- 

 selves in some uneasiuCsst, did conclude 

 he was tlie author of all their jiaiue, 

 would have been desirous to have en- 

 quired whether • * Englisliman could 

 have deserved so unheard oft" and so 

 illegall a treatment ; and, in a word, that 

 either no man would have dared to putt 

 so unpresidented a designe into practice, 

 or that it would have done the unjust 

 suft'ercr more riijlit (lieu j)rejudice, and 

 even that way lia\e brought him (o a 

 clearer and quicker vindication. I have 

 owned here both my opinions; I have 

 been very fond of the first, and am now 

 more pleased with the latter, (iod 

 knowes wiiich would have been tlie 

 best; but I am nothing ueer so much in 

 doubt, but that iu the next step we 

 made concerning him, we all did 

 svverve, and I againe very chiefly, from 

 his true interest and our duty to him, 

 by consenting to that act of bauisliinent, 

 which was sett on foot by some of his 

 old friends as well as his worst cnemys, 

 who had a mind to be playing tricks in 

 the state, and hiid not tiie confidence 

 to begin till (hey had made the door 

 fast against liim, that tiiey migbt not 

 be disturbed by him, and could never 

 have been passed without tlie consent, 

 and which is yett worse, (he assistance 

 of his children and best and faitlifullest 

 servants; this was th(' cruellest thing 

 of all ; first, because it was solemnly 

 promised that no such thing should be 

 done after his departure, and secondly, 

 beciuse it was not so much as for the 

 service of the king, that an acf in such 

 termes, so derogatory of (he prerogative 

 as to deprive his Majesty of (iie power 

 of pardoning, should passe, by which it 

 sufliciently appears (he frights and ter- 

 rors of other men were more prevalent 

 than the King's honour or interest for 

 the procuring so unseasonable a law ; 

 and yett into this trap too we fell, and 

 ■I amongst the rest, not baited indeed 

 with any hopes of pleasing any party, 

 or of making myselfe well at court 

 upon the ruins of my father's fortune, 

 of which I had the good fortune not to 



be suspected, though I had given occa- 

 sion cnougii for the suspicion, but out 

 of a mistaken policy that this would 

 ])ut an end to all and aft(!r this sacrifice 

 to (heir fears, they would betake them- 

 selves to some other more publicke 

 businesse, and leave our poor family to 

 the privacy and inconsideriible con- 

 dition to which they had reduced it ; 

 and after all, I am not so much trou- 

 bled for any rcall hurt it difl, as for the 

 trouble it gave my father in his mind, 

 f(U" wifliout it, it is most apparent, the 

 malice of his enemys was so prevalent 

 with the King, that he would never 

 have been permitted to have lived in 

 his owne country; hut on the other 

 side, to a man who loved his country so 

 entirely, and had endeavoured to serve 

 it so honestly, it -jould not but be a 

 cruell blow to live so many years under 

 so severe a bauislimcnt. and dye a 

 banished man from that country, 

 for whose happynesve and true pros- 

 perity he was to his last breath so hear- 

 tily concerned, and I am att'raid I have 

 too much reason to say, that that one 

 melancholy reflection, (ogether with (he 

 apprehension of the ill condition he 

 apprehended them like to be in, and 

 tire disability he was in by their fault 

 of serving them in jucveuting a mine, 

 he thought he foresaw so inevitably 

 falling uj)on them, gave him more trou- 

 ble of mind, and contributed more to 

 our unhappy losse of him, then all the 

 other misfortunes of his time, or the 

 diseases and iufirmitys a man of his 

 age seldome is without. To all other 

 misfortunes, I have said allready, he 

 bore up with all magnanimity aiulsted- 

 dynesse; to remove this onely, he ap- 

 piyed himselfe with all humble sub- 

 missions to his Majesty, and with all 

 assurances that he would never make 

 use of (he liberty if it were restored to 

 him, without knowing it would be 

 agreable to his Majesty's good pleasure 

 and cjuiett, and after severall dutiful! 

 though unsuccessfull attempts of this 

 kind, he fell downe under, and could 

 no longer support the odious name of 

 the brand of banishment ; I have father 

 to aceus" myselfe, that during the time 

 of his banishment • • • • 

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COIINUCOPIA, 



0/ Lileran/ Curiusifie.t and remarkable Facts. 



tORD MAYORS OF LONDON. 



THE first mayor was Henry Fitz- 

 Alwin, and he served from 1191 

 to 1214. There were then five annual 



mayors, when Robert Serle served five 

 years; Bichard Renger four yeai's ; 

 Rogei' Duke, four years ; and Andrew 

 Bokerel seven years.ThefirstMayor who 



was 



