entertained by the city, April 18, 1768, [93]-the legacy of fir John Langham, baronet, veited in the hands of the lord mayor and aldermen of the city, to relieve the diftreffes of poor foldiers and feamen, [121]-the prefent lord mayor (the honourable Thomas Harley) was the only lord mayor known to be in the privy-council fince the time of fir William Walworth, who in the time of king Richard II. killed the famous Wat Tyler, then at the head of a numerous force in oppofition to government, [138]-a particular narrative defcribing the proceflions and manner in which the city fhewed their respect to his Danish majefty on the 23d of September 1768, when he honoured the city with his prefence, and dined at the Manfion-houfe; the Speech in which mr. common ferjeant paid the compliments of the city to his majesty, and the anfwer which his majefty made; a particular account of the bill of fare at the king of Denmark's table on that occafion, [168. 171]—his Danish majesty signified his iutention to take up the freedom of the city in the worshipful company of goldsmiths, [178, 179]-the addrefs prefented by the city to his majesty, November 16, 1768, on the birth of a princefs, named Augufta Sophia, [185, 186]-the nature of the regulation relating to the watch in the city, for one year, commencing December 25, 1768, [202]-Debates aud final determination about admitting mr. Wilkes as an alderman of the city, after his election, xii. [65. 70. 72. 92]——xiii. [99, 100] agreement between the city and the prebendary of Finfbury for renewing the lease of that estate, xii. [70]-inftructions given to the repre. fentatives of the city in parliament, and this right of constituents or electors vindicated, [73]--an account, in March 1769, of the money expended in profecuting the act for new paving, &c. the streets of London, [85]-the right of the livery to request the lord mayor to call a common hall, confidered, and the previous measures which led to this question, [95. 99, 1co]remarkable meeting of the livery at the election of the fheriffs in 1769, [109]. -the petition and remonftrance prefented to his majefty, July 5, 1769, [113] proceedings on the conteft for the office of lord mayor in 1769, and the final clofe of the poll, [133, 134.

137]-the unanimous voice of the livery by which mr. alderman Beckford was called to the office of chief magiftrate (lord mayor) for a fecond time in 1769, [139]-refolutions in refpect of the neceffity of an honeft and parliamentary enquiry into the conduct and accounts of H-L- H——, affirmed to be the public defaulter of unaccounted millions, [139, 140]the fpeech in which mr. aldermau Beckford addreffed the livery upon his election, with fome particulars relating to what happened the day he was fworn in, [140. 149]-the thanks of the court given to mr. deputy John Paterfon, for his hiftorical collection of papers, evidencing divers rights of the city of London, accompanied with a request that he would complete the fame, [145]-the valuable legacy of twenty thousand pounds, left by Samuel Wilfon, efq. of Hatton-Garden, and lodged in the chamber of London, to be lent out to young freemen in fmall fums at a low intereft, giving fufficient fecurity for the principal, [147]-the fum of five hundred pounds ordered to be paid out of the chamber of London to the poor fufferers by fire in the island of Antigua, [161]— genuine letters which paffed between the lord mayor and the fecretary at war in December 1769, [187, 188] -a narrative of what happened previous to the prefenting of the petition of the livery of London to his majesty on the 5th of July 1769, with a copy of the petition, [200.202]-The very fplendid aud elegant entertainment given by the lord mayor (Beckford) Feb. 9, 1770, xiii. [71, 72]—another on March 22, 1770, particularly des fcribed, [81. 83]-tate of the famous difpute between the lord mayor and the goldfmiths and other companies in the city of London, [84. 86. 92. 107. 156]-xiv. [80. 148]—xv. [104. 110] -xvi. (188. 191]—xvii. [101]—xviii. [88, 89. 124, 125. 136, 137]-Some remarkable proceedings on prefenting the addrefs at St. James's on the birth of the princess Elizabeth, in May 1770, xiii. [111, 112]-the thanks of the common-council prefented to the earl of Chatham, [115]-contested election for the mayoralty, on the death of mr. alderman Beckford in 1770, [120. 122]-refolutions made for erecting a ftatue of mr. alderman Beckford, and the fum allowed for defraying

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fraying the expence of the fame, [125]
anfwer to the lords of the treasury,
relating to a propofal for fome ground
in St. George's Fields for the purpose
of building a prison, [131, 132]-re-
folutions of the common-council in re-
fpect of the duty of the recorder, [132,
133. 148. 150. 154, 155]-bounties
for manning the navy, and the good
confequences produced by it, [151.
163. 170, 171]-proceedings on the
Durham-Yard embankment, [155,
156. 158]-refusals made by the lord
mayor to back the prefs-warrants in
December 1770, [169]-money ex-
pended on the repairs of London
Bridge, [176]-copies of letters tranf-
mitted by the lord mayor (mr. alder-
man Trecothick) to the lords commif-
fioners of the admiralty, in October
1770, on granting protections against
prefs-warrants in the city, [203, 204]
copy of the letter fent by the lords
of the admiralty to the lord mayor,
the 20th of November 1770, on the
bounty granted by the city for manning
the navy, [205]-the lord mayor's
queries in refpect of the legality of
prefs-warrants laid before three emi-
nent council, in November 1770, with
their opinions upon the fame, [232]-
A particular account of the causes
which produced an order of the house
of commons for the commitment of the
city magiftrates, debates in the house

pon this fubject, with the public pa-
pers and other proceedings relative to
this event in 1771, xiv. [63*. 70*.
82. 85.90, 91, 92, 93. 97, 98. 100.
105. 117. 183. 192]-uicful regula-
tion made by the lord mayor (Brafs
Crosby, efq.) in the corn-market, in
January 1771, [65, 66]—proceedings
in respect to prefs-warrants in the city,
[67, 68. 70, 71]-the final clofe of
the poll for theriffs in 1771, [121]—
the letter which the lord mayor received
from the lord chamberlain (the earl of
Hertford) the night before he prefented
the remonstrance, &c. to his majesty,
in July 1771, [122]-the remarkable
caufe at a court of efcheats before the
lord mayor, by virtue of his majesty's
commiffion iffued by the court of
chancery, directed to his lordship,
July the 16th, 1771, which was the
firft court which has been held upon
the like occafion fince the reign of
king James I. and in the mayoralty
of fr Woolatton Dixie, lord mayor
of London in the year 1621, [125]—

the very extraordinary address to the
livery of London, made and published
by the fheriff's (Wilkes and Bull) in
September 1771, (142, 143]—state
and final clofe of the poll for the con-
tefted election of lord mayor in 1771,
[145. 148]-the place of upper city
marthal was fold in October 1771 at
the price of nineteen hundred pounds,
[148]-the letter from the fheriffs of
London (Baker and Martin) in July
1771, occafioned by the various reports
that were circulated relative to the in-
terference of the military at the execu-
tion of Stroud and Campbell, near
Bethnal Green, on July the 8th, 1771,
[193. 195]-The value of the three
cups prefented to aldermen Crosby,
Wilkes, and Oliver, by the court of
common council, January 24, 17721
xv. [68]-the method which was
adopted to prevent the admiffion of
non-freemen into the hall on all pub-
lic election days, [72]-xvi. [99]—
Some difputes between the lord mayor,
common council, and the livery of
the city, in 1772, xv. (74, 75, 77,
78-premiums given to the British
herring and mackarel fishery in 1771
and 1772, [100, 101]-Mr. Beck-
ford's itatue erected June 11, 1772,
in Guildhall, [108]-the fum of
4001. given to the unhappy fufferers
by the fire at Grenada, [109]—the
contested election for the office of the
mayoralty in October 1772, when
Mr. alderman Townfend was elected,
[131, 132. 134]-the majority for a
vote of cenfure, November the 13th,
1772, against Mr. alderman Nath, late
lord mayor of this city, [138]-retolu-
tions relating to the recorder, on fir Ja.
Eyre being appointed a baron of the
court of exchequer, [138)-contested
election for the office of recorder of this
city, when Mr. ferjeant Glynn was
chofen by a majority of one voice,
[138, 139]-Remarkable mortality in
the court of aldermen, from 1769 to
1772, inclufively; circumftances not
to be paralleled in fo fhort a space of
time as four years in the annals of
this metropolis, xvi. [70]-the lord
mayor gave notice that he fhould not
attend St. Paul's on the 30th of Ja-
nuary 1773, [71]-the addrefs pre-
fented to his majetty on the birth of
prince Auguftus Frederick, [73, 74]
-refolutions relating to the thorten-
ing the duration of parliaments, [82,
83-bounty propofed to encourage

the

the importation of foreign wheat in 773, [84]-fubftance of the petition prefented to the house of commons, March 26th, 1773, [S4. 86]proceedings of the fheriffs in confequence of the fpeaker's order, directing the attendance in parliament of the reprefentatives for London and Middlefex, and in fupport of the freeholders of Middlefex, [90. 98-refolution to petition parliament against a bill now (May 1773) depending, relative to the Eat India company, [104]-motion made for addreffing his majesty on the birth of a princefs, a daughter of the duchefs of Gloucester, negatived, [109] a thousand pounds per annum was granted to the recorder (June 18th, 1773) during the pleafure of the court, and two hundred pounds per annum additional falary was granted to the common ferjeant at the fame time, [110]-the ftate and determination of the conteft for the office of lord mayor of this city for the year 1774, [140. 142. 154]-the contested election for a reprefentative in parliament for this city, in the room of fir Robert Ladbroke, knight, deceated, when Mr. alderman Bull was clected by a majority of fourteen, [149. 151. 154]-The petition of meffieurs Adam, for having the lottery for the Adelphi tickets drawn in Guildhall, paffed in the negative, January the 24th, 1774, xvii. [84]-the fheriffs prefent a petition to the honourable the house of commons for leave to make a navigable cut from Moorfields to Waltham Abbey, (96, 97]-the addrefs prefented to his majetty, March 4th, 1774, on the birth of prince Adolphus Frederick, [99]-the determination that was made on the 12th of April, 1774, that no two-wheeled car, drawn by men, fhould be occupied in the streets of the city of London, neither to carry porters loads, nor any other parcels, under the penalty of forty fhillings, [110]-a petition to the houfe of commons was prefented (in May 1773) to top the progrefs of the bill for improving the navigation of the Thames within the liberties of the city weftward of London-bridge, [118, 119]-refolution to prefent to his majesty a petition against the Quebec bill receiving the royal affent, [129, 130]-the state of the poil for the election of theriffs in 1774, when Mr. alderman Plomer and John

Hart, efq. were elected, [132]-refolutions relating to the office of bailiff of the borough of Southwark, July the 30th, 1774, [138, 139]-the state of the poll for the reprefentatives of the city in 1774, and for the office of lord mayor for the year 1775, [155, 156]— authentic copy of the addrefs and petition against the Quebec bill receiving the royal affent, [232, 233]-refolutions and proceedings of the city of London with respect to American affairs in 1775, xviii. [50. 55]-the jult forms of proceeding in all caufes, before the court of aldermen, was etablished by the lord mayor in 1775, [84]-the vote of thanks which was agreed upon and prefented by the common-council, in February 1775, to the right honourable the earl of Chatham, for the plan he offered to the houfe of lords relating to the American colonies, [91]—the opinion of the recorder and common ferjeant with regard to the city marshals and their men, fignifying, that, according to ancient records, thofes places fhould be given away, [92, 93]—1 petition was prefented February the 24th, 1775, to the houfe of commons from the corporation of London, against the bill to reftrain the trade and commerce of feveral American colonies therein fpecified and mentioned, [93]-fome account of the lord mayor's grand ronte, April the 7th, 1775, [104, 105]— refolutions relating to the attendance of the city marshals at Smithfield on every market-day, and to the allowance which fhould be made to the under-marshalmen in lieu of their accuftomed fees, [105. 123]-Public tranfactions of the city in refpect to the conduct of adminiftration in American affairs, fubfequent to the parliamentary recefs in 1775, and during the feffions of 1776, xix. [37.41. 115, 116*. 127, 128]-the remarkable conteft in February and June 1776, for the office of chamberlain, when mr. alderman Hopkins was elected each time by a confiderable malority; a lift of chamberlains from the Revolution to 1776; the fpeeches made by mr. alderman Wilkes, and other proceedings at thofe meetings, [121, 122. 154, 155]-vote of thanks, and the freedom of the city, on March the 14th, 1776, to dr. Price, for his Qbfervations on Civil Liberty, and the letter he wrote upon that occafion, L 4

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[126]-addrefs to his majesty on the birth of princefs Mary, [134, 135]— motions and final refolution for an additional falary of one thousand pounds to the office of lord mayor, with a ftate of the payments and receipts in feveral mayoralties, [135, 136. 169, 170. 190]-Proceedings in fupport of the exemption claimed by the city against the power of prefs-warrants within the jurifdiction of the city of London, xx. [28. 167. 174. 176. 178. 186, 187]-the tenor of the act which paffed April 30, 1777, by which the city of London was enabled to purchase the tolls of the river Thames weftward of Londonbridge, [179]-vote of thanks to the right honourable fir Fletcher Norton, speaker of the house of commons, for promoting and forwarding the act for the more effectually improving the navigation of, the river Thames, and for the fpeech which he made to his majefty on the throne, when he prefented for the royal affent the bill entitled, "An act for the better fupport of his majesty's household, and of the honour and dignity of the crown of Great Britain,' [180, 181]-trial refpecting the ex-, tent of the fuburbs, [185, 186]final state of the poll for the election of chamberlain in July 1777, when mr. Hopkins was re-elected, [191]-the petition which the city prefented to the house of commons against the bill for fecuring and detaining perfons charged with, or fufpected of, high-treason in North America, and paffed in 1777, [231, 232]-Proceedings of the fociety called the Affociated Livery, or the White Hart Association, in favour of the measures carried on by adminiftration against America, in oppofition to the fentiments and measures adopted by the corporation of the city of London upon that fubject, xxi. [162, 163. 204. 210, 211]-three petitions were prefented by the fheriffs, February the 5th, 1778, to the house of commons, praying them to grant the fum of fixty-one thoufand pounds for certain purpofes contained in the faid petitions, [167]-proceedings of the court of common-council on the election of the marshals of this city, April 10, 1778, [175]-copy of the letter fent to the city by fir Fletcher Norton, knight, fpeaker of the house of commons, with proceedings there

on, [182, 183]-ftate of the poll for the election of chamberlain in 1778, when mr. Hopkins was re-elected by a great majority, [189]-copy of the letter fent by mr. Oliver in answer to the request of his friends to ftand for the mayoralty for the year 1779, [200, 201]-proceedings in 1778 and 1779, in order to perpetuate the memory of the late earl of Chatham, [208. 213. 240. 243] xxii. [238]-proceedings on a motion for a vote of thanks to the four reprefentatives of the city in 1778, and to fir James Eldaile, lord mayor for that year, xxi, [204. 210, 211]-Subitance of the petition prefented to his majefty in March 1778, on the state of public affairs, xxii. [53, 54]-the thanks of the court of cominon-council and freedom of the city prefented to the honourable admiral Auguftus Keppel, [199. 201]-proceedings at the election of city officers in June 1779, [217, 218]-the right of a claim by the city to a duty of fixpence per load on hay fold in Smithfield, not the property of the freemen of London, proved and afcertained, [220]-ftate of the falary annexed to the office of recorder at different periods of time, and the refolution of the city (October 5, 1779) to fix it at 600l. per annum; and the very contefted election for the fame, when nur. ferjeant Adair was chofen by a majority of one vote, [228, 230] the election of mr. alderman Wilkes to the office of chamberlaim, and mr. Buffar to the office of Bridgemafter, November 24, 1779, [235]— Letters of thanks were fent to various Jords in parliament for their attempts to introduce a reform in the public expenditure, xxiii. [82]-refolutions to prefent admiral fir George Bridges Rodney with a vote of thanks and the freedom of the city, [201]-the determination of a remarkable legal difpute between the city of London and the inhabitants of Richmond, [210, 211. 215, 216]-vote of addrets of thanks to his majefty, for his majesty's care and attention to the city of London during the dangerous and formidable riots in June and July 1780, [219, 220]-a refolution to grant no further allowance to the troops in this city after the end of the month of July, [220]-the final clofe of the poli for four reprefentatives of this city, September the 15th, and Novem

ber

-

ber the 30th, 1780, [226. 236]-motions and reflutions relating to the lord mayor (Brackley Kennett, efq.) and the expenditure of the city cash on p nic occafions, [229. 231]— account of the riots in June 1780, with the oitentible caufe, and trial of the rioters, xxii. [254, 287] London; ftate of the hofpitals fubject to the city of, in 1759, iii. [90, 91] -In 1760, iv. [89] In 1761, v. [81. 86] In 1762, vi. [73. 98] In 1763, vii. [57. 70. 81. 95)In 1764, viii. [78. 128, 129. 141]— In 1765, ix. [84, 85. 106]—In 1766, x. [84, 85. 130. 155. 168]-In 1767, xi. [91. 138-In 1768, xii. [91. 107]-In 1770, xiii. [102. 131. 134. 166]-In 1771, XV. [95. 123. 126] -In 1772, xvi. [87. 94]-In 1773, xvii. [108]-In 1775, xix. [130] London Hofpital, rules of; benefactions

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and collection for 1759, ii. 85-for 1760, iii. [93]-for 1761, iv. [104] -for 1762, v. [81. 108]-for 1763, vi. [67, 68]-for 1764, vii. 57. 70. 81] for 1765, viii. [72-73. 128. 141] for 1765, ix. [84. 106]. for 1767, x. [86] for 1768, xi. [92,93] for 1769, xii. [91, 107]— for 1771, XV. [94]-for 1772, XV. [89. 126]-for 1773, xvi. [92]-for 1774, xvii. [109] London Lying a Hospital; proceedings and collection for 1758, i. 93 — In 1759, ii. 89-In 1761, iv. [114]-In 1762, v. [68. 94]—In 1765, viii. [109]-In 1766, ix. [106, 117]—In 1767, X. [75. 168]-In 1768, xi. [119, 120]-In 1770, xiii. [119.154] -In 1773, xvi. [104]-In 1775, xviii. [110]-In 1776, xix. [135] Lottery, the; the fum railed by it, and by annuities in 1758, i. 133. 134-In 1759, ii. 181, 182. In 1760, iii. [191,192]-In 1761, v. 158. 160.-In 1762, [170. 172] - Arguments in parliament against, vi. [34]—In 1763, 165. 181. 183]-In 1765, viii. [71. 88. 243, 244]—In 1766, ix. -[103. 205, 206. 213, 214]-In 1767, x. [81, 91]-In 1768, xi. [79]-In 1769, xii. [98. 222, 223]-The entire new plan of the lottery in 1770, which was very advantageous to the public, defcribed, xiii. [101. 102. 240. 242.] The bill for raising 650,000l. by the lottery in 1771, xiv, [104]-remarkable trial and penalty for difpofing of plate and other things, by way of prizes, contrary to the lot

tery act, [139]-the money raised by the lottery in the year 1771, and the nature of the lottery explained, [227, 228]-Trials relating to the legality or illegality of infuring tickets, xvi. [80]-xviii. [133]—xix. [184] and the method taken by parliament to fupprefs the practice of infurance, xviii. [174]-Particulars relating to the nature of the lottery in 1774, xvii. [255, 256]-A remarkable trial relating to a fraud committed against a lottery office-keeper near the Change in 1775, xviii. [182, 183]-profit on the lottery in 1775, [245]—In 1776, xix. [251] In 1777, xx. [185. 270. 272]-the various devices invented by lottery office keepers to deceive and impofe upon the credulous in 1777, [206, 207]-A defcription of feveral particulars of the new lottery bill, which paffed March the 28th, 1778, xxi. [173.231. 280. 282]-the effect produced by this bill in leffening the number of lottery offices, [195]-A bill paffed April 1, 1779, for better regulating lottery office keepers, xxii. [206]-the fum raifed by the lottery iu 1779, with feveral particulars relating to it, [215. 331, 332]—An account of the lottery in the year 1780, xxiii. [314.316]

Lowther Hall; an account of the contents of a curious pye made at this place in 1763, vi. [59] Lowther, fir James. baronet, verfus his grace William Henry Cavendish Bentinch, duke of Portland, xi. [78*. 80*]—xiv. [154, 155]—xix. [183]— XX. [167]

Luke's, St. Hofpital; proceedings or collection for, in 1762, v. [99]-In 1763, vi. [93]--In 1764, vii. [81. 92]-In 1765, viii. [128. 141]—In 1756, ix. [102. 117]-in 1767, X. [168]-In 1769, xii. [107]-In 1773, xvi. [87]

Lundfon, mnr. Edward, of Morpeth, in

Northumberland, verfus mr. Christopher Fawcett, x. [109. 110] Lynn, navigation from; to Northampton, opened, iv. [146, 147] Lynn, Norfolk; bill relating to, xvi. [90]