[720] The custom of setting the assize in the city continued until 1822, when it was abolished by Stat. 3 Geo. III, c. cvi. [721] Journal 87, fos. 68, 104b. [722] See Report of Special Committee on the continued high price of bread, 24 March, 1814.--Journal 88, fos. 262b-268b. [723] Journal 89, fos. 216b, 217b-219, 237b; Common Hall Book, No. 9, fos. 316-318b. [724] Journal 89, fos. 242b-244. [725] Journal 99, fos. 101-105; Journal 100, fos. 113b-115; Journal 117, fos. 225-226; Journal 118, fos. 438b-441. [726] Journal 90, fo. 124b. [727] Common Hall Book, No. 9, fos. 343-345, 346b-347. [728] He had just entered upon his second year of office, and had given no little offence to Lord Sidmouth--at that time high steward of the city and liberties of Westminster, as well as secretary of state for the home department--by returning from Westminster after being sworn in, through the streets of Westminster instead of by water, without having given notice to the high steward. Wood justified his conduct to Sidmouth in a letter in which he protested against the claim of the high steward to dictate to the lord mayor, the city of London, and the sheriffs of London and Middlesex, the particular course they were to take in going or returning on the occasion of the lord mayor being sworn before the Barons of the Exchequer.--Journal 90, fos. 348b-349b. [729] Journal 90, fos. 345b-348. [730] Common Hall Book, No. 9, fo. 348b-350b. [731] Repertory 221, fos. 6-18. [732] Journal 90, fos. 377-380b, 384-384b. [733] Journal 90, fos. 383-384. [734] Repertory 221, fo. 175. Journal 91, fo. 18. A curious incident is recorded in connection with these addresses. Owing to the requisition for a Common Council having referred to the attack on the Regent as an act of some "rash and intemperate" individuals only, and not as a treasonable outrage, the Recorder declared the Common Council to be illegal, and the Court at once broke up, there being no aldermen present. The Common Council resented what they considered to be an unjust attempt on the part of the aldermen to dictate to them in the exercise of their duty, and an unwarrantable attack upon their privileges, and a few days later (13 Feb.) passed resolutions to that effect, and ordered them to be published in the morning and evening papers.--Journal 91, fos. 33b, 34. [735] Journal 91, fo. 12. [736] Common Hall Book, No. 10, fo. 9. [737] Journal 91, fos. 34b-40. Common Hall Book, No. 10, fos. 14-22. [738] Journal 92, fos. 57b-58. [739] Journal House of Commons, lxxiii, 11. The suspension had been renewed in June (1817), notwithstanding the City's continued opposition.--Journal 91, fos. 187-189b.--Common Hall Book, No. 10, fos. 23-31. [740] Addresses of Common Council and Common Hall to parliament, 23 and 27 Feb., 1818.--Journal 92, fos. 54b-58b.--Common Hall Book, No. 10, fos. 48-55.--Journal House of Commons, lxxiii, 90, 106.