The Case of the Lord Mayor and aldermen of London, upon the petition of some of the Common-Council men presented to the Honourable House of Commons, with his Lordships and the aldermens answer to the charge exhibited against them in the said petition.

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Title: The Case of the Lord Mayor and aldermen of London, upon the petition of some of the Common-Council men presented to the Honourable House of Commons, with his Lordships and the aldermens answer to the charge exhibited against them in the said petition.
Author: City of London (England). Lord Mayor.
Publication: London :: Printed for John Harris ...,; 1690.
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Subject terms: City of London (England). -- Lord Mayor.; City of London (England). -- Court of Aldermen.; Broadsides -- England -- 17th century.
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Answer.

That the Petitioners were so very clamorous and rude, that they would not suffer any Que∣stion to be put about the City's business; that there was not any thing proposed by any man to be a pretended doubt in the said Act of Parlia∣ment, nor any matter mentioned as a ground whereupon to put any such Question, nor what words of the Act of Parliament they would have explained.

That as some of the Petitioners made a motion for such a senceless Question, so others opposed it, and nothing could be brought to a Question, the heat and noise of the Petitioners was so great. Nor did the Lord Mayor dissolve the Court till several of the Common Council men moved for it. But admit the Petitioners had upon a fair question carried it, That an Address should be made to the House of Commons, to explain the said late Act of Parliament; yet the Mayor and Aldermen (by an Act of Council made the 6th of June, 1683. Sir William Pritchard then Mayor) might have refused it, they by that Act having a negative voice upon any thing the Commons shall propose to them.