19. to Friday, Nov. 23.
1688, inclusive."
In connection with this subject, it may be noticed that there is no
entry of any payment in the _Issue Books_ of the clerks of the Pells
between Tuesday, 11th December, and Monday, 24th December, 1688. J.E.
[Perhaps some of our correspondents could inform us where the MSS.
in question are now deposited.]
[5] After mentioning the excesses committed by the mob, and the
arrest of Judge Jefferies, Bishop Burnet says: "The Lord Mayor
was so struck with the terror of this rude populace, and with the
disgrace of a man who had made all people tremble before him, that
he fell into fits upon it, of which he died soon after.
"To prevent the further growth of such disasters, he called
a Meeting of the Privy Councillors and Peers, who meet at
Guildhall," &c. The pronoun _he_ must relate to the Lord Mayor,
but the sentence is obscurely expressed.
[6] Vol. ii. pp. 259, 260.
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