[805] Repertory 235, fos. 376, 377. [806] Annual Register lxxiii, 154. [807] Common Hall Book, No. 10, fos. 304-306. [808] Journal 105, fos. 376-377, 379b-380, 387b-389. [809] Journal 105, fos. 389b-391b. [810] _Id._, fo. 392. [811] Common Hall Book, No. 10, fo. 312. [812] Annual Register lxxiii, 281, 282. [813] _Id._, lxxiii, 291-294. [814] Repertory 235, fos. 711-714. [815] Annual Register lxxiii, 296, 297. [816] On Michaelmas-day the livery returned Key and Alderman Thorp. The Court of Aldermen selected Thorp, but he declined to take office. At a subsequent election the livery again returned Key and with him Alderman Thompson. The Court of Aldermen thereupon called upon Thompson, but he also declined to serve, and a third election had to take place. Again Key was returned, together with Alderman Kelly, and the Court of Aldermen finding the livery bent on having their own way, selected Key.--Common Hall Book, No. 10, fos. 308-310, 313-320. [817] Journal 106, fo. 1. [818] Repertory 236, fos. 4, 5. [819] Common Hall Book, No. 10, fo. 320. [820] Journal 106, fos. 245b-248. [821] Annual Register lxxiv, 155. [822] Journal 106, fos. 275-276. [823] _Id._, fo. 276b. [824] Common Hall Book, No. 10, fos. 327-332. [825] _Id._, fos. 332-333. [826] Common Hall Book, No. 10, fos. 328-329. [827] Journal 106, fos. 280b-283. [828] Journal 106, fos. 326b-328. Annual Register lxxiv, 175, 185. [829] Journal 106, fos. 328-328b. [830] Journal 106, fos. 377-377b. [831] Just a twelvemonth had elapsed since the freedom had been conferred on Lord John Russell (9 July, 1831), for undertaking the introduction of the Reform Bill. Ten years later (1841), he was returned as one of the members for the city, and continued to represent it until his elevation to the peerage. [832] Journal 106, fos. 378-379b. Journal 107, fos. 119b-129b. [833] For description of this medal and of other medals struck from time to time by order of the Corporation, see _Numismata Londinensia_, edited with descriptive notes by Mr. Charles Welch, F.S.A., the Guildhall Librarian, (London, 1894). [834] Journal 105, fos. 5-6. [835] Journal 126, fo. 31. Journal 127, fo. 345. Journal 129, fo. 379. [836] Common Hall Book, No. 10, fo. 637. [837] Hust. Roll, 372 (2), 373 (3), (4). [838] See prefatory note to returns made by the Chamberlain pursuant to an order of the Court of Common Council, 26 Oct., 1882. (_Printed._) [839] Chamberlain's returns (_Sup._).--"Expenditure for benefit of metropolis, etc." pp. 12, 13. [840] For a list of metropolitan improvements and public works carried out by means of these dues, see "Ten years' growth of the City of London"--being a report of local government and taxation committee of the Corporation (1891), James Salmon, Esq., Chairman, pp. 130-139. APPENDIX A. TABLE OF CONTENTS.