[330] Woodfall, Letters of Junius, i, 250. [331] Journal 65, fos. 289b, 290. Journal House of Commons, xxxiii, 553. Walpole, Journal of reign of George III, i, 26, 42. [332] Journal 65, fo. 311. [333] These instructions were not entered on record until the following Midsummer-day (1773).--Common Hall Book, No. 8, fos. 176b, 177. [334] Correspondence, i, 110. [335] _Ibid._ [336] Common Hall Book, No. 8, fo. 171b. [337] Townshend even allowed his goods to be seized rather than pay the tax, and then brought an action for trespass. The case had come on for hearing in June last, when Lord Mansfield, finding that counsel for the plaintiff wanted the court to retry the judgment of the House of Commons touching the case of the Middlesex election, stopt the case, and ordered the jury to find for the defendant.--Walpole, "Journal of the reign of George III," i, 124-126. [338] Correspondence, i, 112. [339] Journal of the reign of George III, i, 164. [340] Common Hall Book, No. 8, fo. 171b. [341] Journal 65, fo. 311b. [342] Chatham to Shelburne, 10 Jan., 1772.--Chatham Correspondence, iv, 187. [343] "Journal of the reign of George III," i, 164, 165. [344] Repertory 177, fo. 164. [345] Walpole, Journal, i, 184, 185. [346] Correspondence, i, 125. [347] Walpole, Journal, i, 188, 189. [348] Common Hall Book, No. 8, fo. 175b. [349] Walpole, Journal, i, 192. [350] The king to Lord North, 13 March, 1773.--Correspondence, i, 125. [351] Common Hall Book, No. 8, fo. 176b. [352] This was something in the nature of a "whip," the custom being for the Speaker to send notice to the sheriffs to summon all their members to attend on a certain day. [353] Watkin Lewes and Oliver. [354] Journal House of Commons, xxxiv, 283; Walpole, Journal, i, 194-197. [355] Common Hall Book, No. 8, fo. 176b. [356] Gentleman's Magazine, xliii, 300. [357] _Supra_, p. 94. [358] Common Hall Book, No. 8, fos. 162-163. [359] This judgment was reversed in 1775, and from that day to this the lord mayor has been unable to compel the attendance of the livery at Common Hall.--Journal 66, fos. 36b, 349b-350b. See also "Case of Mr. Alderman Plumbe" (Guildhall Library) where the judgments of the several judges in error are set out with comments by James Roberts, the city solicitor. [360] This opinion was ordered to be entered in the Repertory of the Court of Aldermen (19 Oct., 1773).--Repertory 177, fos. 439-445. [361] Common Hall Book, No. 8, fo. 178. The contest was so equal that Wilkes only lost the election by the casting vote of Townshend.--Walpole, Journal, i, 262. [362] Walpole, Journal, i, 275, 297, 301, 325; Gentleman's Magazine, xliv, 291. [363] The king to North, 31 Oct., 1773.--Correspondence, i, 153. [364] The same to the same, 12 Nov., 1773.--_Id._, i, 155-156. [365] Common Hall Book, No. 8, fo. 183. [366] Journal 66, fos. 105b-106; Journal House of Commons, xxxiv, 765, 803; Gentleman's Magazine, xliv, 247, 283. [367] Walpole, Journal, i, 376, 377.