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London and the Kingdom Volume 2 ; A History Derived Mainly From the Archives at Guildhall in the Custody of the Corporation of the City of London
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By Reginald Robinson Sharpe 12 Apr, 2019
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Excerpt: ...his past services ffi to parliament and the army. According to the record 4 Dec. of the votes of the House of Commons for the 4th December 1649, preserved in the Journal of the Common Council, Browne was not only dismissed 1Journal House ... Read more
Excerpt: ...his past services ffi to parliament and the army. According to the record 4 Dec. of the votes of the House of Commons for the 4th December 1649, preserved in the Journal of the Common Council, Browne was not only dismissed 1Journal House of Commons, vi, 337, 338. 'Whitelock, p. 436. 'Journal House of Commons, vi, 338. 'He afterward served on various committees--Journal 41, fos. 13b, 21. from parliament, but was also discharged and disabled from being an alderman of the city; but in the Journal of the House itself the latter resolution relating to his discharge from his aldermanry was subsequently erased, and a note subscribed to the effect that the vote was vacated by order of parliament made the 26th March, 1659.1 The late troubles had sadly depleted the city's Chamber as well as increased the number of the poor within the city's walls. It became necessary to appoint a committee (18 Sept. 1649) to examine the state of the city's finances. The result was that in the following December the Common Council resolved to cut down the table expenses of the mayor and sheriffs, which were found to have materially increased since they were last taken in hand in 1555. Thenceforth it was to be unlawful for any mayor or sheriff to be served at dinner with more than one course; nor were they to have at any time "any more sundry "dishes of meat at that one course, to a mess often "or twelve persons, upon the Lord's day, Tuesday, "Thursday or any ordinary festival day, than seven, "whether the same be hot or cold." One or two of the dishes might (if they pleased) be brought to the table hot "after the first five or six be served." On Monday, Wednesday, Friday or Saturday the course was to comprise not more than five sundry dishes... ** Less
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