To the Right Honourable, Sir Robert Clayton, Lord-Mayor of the city of London the humble petition of the common-hall assembled. City of London (England). Court of Common Council. 1680 Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2009-10 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A62804 Wing T1613A ESTC R228150 12364587 ocm 12364587 60368 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. 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Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng London (England) -- Officials and employees -- Dismissal of. Broadsides 2008-01 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-02 Elspeth Healey Sampled and proofread 2008-08 SPi Global Rekeyed and resubmitted 2008-10 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2008-10 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion To the Right Honourable , Sir ROBERT CLAYTON , LORD-MAYOR of the City of London . The Humble PETITION of the Common-Hall Assembled . May it please your Honour , WE the Commons of London , in Common-Hall Assembled , being deeply sensible , that many of the Mischiefs and Grievances that we at present groan under , are occasioned by the Misbehaviour , and irregular Carriages of some of the principal Officers of this City , particularly of Sir George Jefferies , Knight , our present Recorder , who , by very confident but false Affirmations , hath endeavoured to mislead the Common-Council , in Matters of highest Moment : And also , contrary to the Duty of his Place , and the greatest Trust reposed in him , hath , as we have just reason to believe , frequently made other false Suggestions and Misrepresentations to his Majesty , of our most Loyal and Dutiful Actions and Demeanours . And finding that he hath maliciously contrived , to subvert one of the great Foundations of our English Liberties , by menacing and threatning Juries , thereby to make them bring in Verdicts , not according to their Conscience , but his own Will and Pleasure ; and discharging others contrary to Law , before they had compleated all the Business for which they were sworn : as doth notoriously appear , by his late and terrible Usage of the Grand-Inquest of this City , at the Sessions of Peace holden in Guild-Hall . And lastly ; That he doth frequently affront , and most scurrilously intreat Witnesses , appearing to give their Testimonies in the several Judicatures , whereby they many times become affrighted and confounded : Tending to the great Oppression of his Majesty's Subjects , to the Scandal and Dishonour of the City , and to the disquieting of the Peace and Unity thereof ; to the perversion of Justice , and dangerous Prejudice of the Publick-Weal of this Kingdom . By which ill Carriages , and most insolent Behaviour , he hath rendred himself most obnoxious , and insupportably burdensom in that Office. We do therefore most humbly pray your Lordship , to consider with your Worshipful Brethren the Aldermen , of the most speedy and effectual Way that can be taken , for the immediate removing of the said Sir Geo. Jefferies , from the Place of Recorder of this City , as a Person dangerous and destructive to the Publick Peace , Vnity , and Prosperity thereof : To the end that some other more fit and honest Person , learned in the Laws , of known Loyalty , Modesty , Integrity , and undoubted Zeal for the true Protestant Religion , may be Elected into the same : Which , We humbly conceived , may be the best and most expedient Means , conducing to the Remedy of these Mischiefs , and Preservation of the good Government of this renowned City . And your Petitioners shall ever pray , &c.