An Act of Common Councill of the City of London, (made in the first and second years of the reign of Philip and Mary) for retrenching of the expenses of the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, etc. Published, with additional reasons for putting the said Act in present execution, and now offered to the consideration of all good Citizens by some Well-Wishers of the present and future prosperity of the said City. Presented to my Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Sheriffs. London: Printed for F. Smith, at the Elephant and Castle in Cornhill, near the Royal Exchange. 1680. For this book, an indictment was preferred against Francis Smith, the publisher, at the Guildhall, London, on September 16, 1680, but it was thrown out by the grand jury. The best account of this book, and the prosecution thereupon, will be found in a tract published by Smith, at the time, and entitled, "An Account of the injurious proceedings of Sir George Jeffreys, Knight, late Recorder of London, against Francis Smith, Bookseller, with his arbitrary carriage towards the grand jury at Guildhall, Sept. 16, 1680, upon an indictment exhibited against the said Francis Smith, for publishing a pretended libel; entitled, 'An Act of Common Council.'" The following is a copy of the indictment against Smith:-- London, ss. The Jurors for our Lord the King upon their oaths present that Francis Smith, late of London, Bookseller, being a man seditious and pernicious, plotting and intending the peace and common tranquillity of this kingdom to disturb, and discord, differences and ill will, amongst the citizens and inhabitants of the city of London, to stir up, provoke and procure; also the Mayor, Aldermen, and Sheriffs of the City of London, now in being, and the Mayor, Aldermen, and Sheriffs of the City of London, for the time past in great odium, contempt, and base accompt to bring; the same Francis Smith, the 17th day of August, in the reign of our Sovereign Lord Charles the Second, by the grace of God, of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. the two and thirtieth at London, viz. in the parish of St. Michael Cornhill in the ward of Cornhill London, aforesaid, with force and arms &c. unlawfully, wickedly, maliciously, scandalously, and seditiously printed, and caused to be printed, a certain malicious, scandalous, and seditious book, of and concerning the expences of the Lord Mayors, Aldermen, and Sheriffs of the City aforesaid, in their houses, in the time of their several offices; entituled _An Act of Common Council of the City of London, (made in the first and second years of the reign of Philip and Mary) for retrenching of the expences of the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs &c. Published with additional Reasons for putting the said Act in present Execution, and now offered to the Consideration of all good Citizens by some Well-wishers of the present and future prosperity of the said City.