[89] Journal 57, fos. 278b-280. On quitting office the lord mayor (John Barber) received the special thanks of the Common Council for having afforded them this opportunity of preserving the trade and liberty of the citizens.--_Id._, fo. 298. [90] Journal House of Commons, xxii, 108, 109, 112, 113. [91] Hervey, Memoirs, i, 200-202. [92] Repertory 138, fos. 243-246. See also the _Daily Courant_, cited in the _Gentleman's Magazine_, iv, 208. [93] Repertory 138, fo. 252. [94] Repertory 139, fo. 2. [95] Repertory 138, fo. 228; Journal 57, fos. 318-319; Repertory 140, fo. 254; Journal 57, fos. 375-377. [96] Memoirs, i, 317. [97] Journal 57, fo. 319b; Repertory 138, fo. 237. [98] Repertory 141, fos. 48, 60, 69, 75. [99] By an article of this treaty England obtained the right of sending yearly to Panama one ship of 600 tons, and no more, for the purpose of trading with the Spanish colonists. This restriction was evaded by putting a fresh cargo on board under cover of the night to take the place of that which had been discharged the previous day. [100] Hervey, Memoirs, ii, 484, 485. [101] Journal 58, fo. 122; Journal House of Commons, xxiii, 248. [102] Ecclesiasticus, c. xxxviii, v. 33. [103] Horace Walpole, who always showed intense dislike to anyone who had opposed his father, Sir Robert, describes Glover as "the greatest coxcomb and the greatest oaf that ever met in blank verse or prose."--Walpole to Mann, 3 March, 1742; Letters, i, 136. [104] According to Maitland (i, 599) Champion was the senior alderman below the chair. This was not the case. There were two senior to him, but these, as well as Champion, were set aside by the livery, who returned Sir John Salter and Sir Robert Godschall to the Court of Aldermen. The Court selected the first named.--Common Hall Book, No. 7, fo. 277. [105] Maitland, i, 600. [106] Repertory 143, fos. 469-472. [107] Journal 58, fos. 167-168b. [108] Walpole to Mann, 12 Nov., 1741.--Letters, i, 89. [109] The poem is preserved among the Percy Reliques, ii, 397. [110] Maitland, i, 608. [111] Common Hall Book, No. 7, fo. 284b. [112] Repertory 144, fos. 389, 400. Journal 58, fo. 182b. [113] Maitland, i, 610. [114] Common Hall Book, No. 7, fo. 285. Repertory 144, fo. 406. [115] Journal 58, fos. 190-191. [116] Maitland, i, 611. [117] He had for some reason been sworn into office before Lord Cornwallis, the Constable of the Tower, with the same ceremony as if sworn before the Barons of the Exchequer; and it was expressly provided that the city's rights and privileges were not to be prejudiced thereby.--Repertory 145, fo. 151. Common Hall Book No. 7, fo. 288. [118] Walpole to Mann, 22 Jan., 1742.--Letters, i, 117. [119] Journal 58, fo. 222b. [120] Journal House of Commons, xxiv, 49, 111. [121] Journal House of Commons, xxiv, 231. Journal House of Lords, xxvi, 138. [122] Journal 58, fo. 225b. Maitland, i, 624. [123] Journal 58, fos. 254-256. Maitland, i, 628.