[Illustration: FACSIMILE OF WRIT AND RETURN] LONDON AND THE KINGDOM A HISTORY DERIVED MAINLY FROM THE ARCHIVES AT GUILDHALL IN THE CUSTODY OF THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF LONDON. BY REGINALD R. SHARPE, D.C.L., RECORDS CLERK IN THE OFFICE OF THE TOWN CLERK OF THE CITY OF LONDON; EDITOR OF "CALENDAR OF WILLS ENROLLED IN THE COURT OF HUSTING," ETC. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. III. * * * * * _PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE CORPORATION UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE LIBRARY COMMITTEE._ * * * * * LONDON LONGMANS, GREEN & Co. AND NEW YORK: 15 EAST 16TH STREET. 1895. * * * * * _All rights reserved._ LONDON: PRINTED BY BLADES, EAST & BLADES, 23, ABCHURCH LANE, E.C. CONTENTS. CHAPTER XXXV. _Accession of George I.--The Old Pretender.--Impeachment of Ministers.--Tory re-action.--End of Jacobite Rebellion.--The King's Picture and Statue.--The Septennial Act.--Trial of the Earl of Oxford.--Disputed Elections.--The right of the City to discharge law costs incurred in Elections over the Chamber, questioned.--Paying "Scot" defined.--An Alderman insulted by the Military.--The South Sea Company.--Supremacy of Walpole.--Fears of another Jacobite rising.--The Election Act, II George I, c. 18.--Death of the King._ _Page 1_ CHAPTER XXXVI. _Accession of George II.--Walpole and the Queen.--Dissenters and the Corporation and Test Acts.--Walpole's Excise Bill.--Unpopularity of Billers, Mayor.--Disputes with Spain.--Jenkin's ear.--The Spanish Convention.--"Leonidas" Glover.--War with Spain declared.--Capture of Porto Bello.--George Heathcote.--The Aldermanic Veto again.--Resignation of Walpole.--War declared with France.--The Young Pretender.--"Black Friday."--The Victory of Culloden.--City Address.--Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.--The Newcastle Administration.--The National Militia Bill.--A tax on Plate.--The loss of Minorca.--Newcastle succeeded by Pitt.--Execution of Byng.--Civic_ _honours for Pitt and Legge.--Coalition of Pitt and Newcastle.--Conquest of Canada._ _Page 31_ CHAPTER XXXVII.