London, Decemb. 21.
This day was published in print the following Declaration
of the City.
Aleyn Mayor.
At a Common Councel holden in the Guildhall London, on
Tuesday the 20 of December, 1659.
THis Court having taken notice of divers affronts put
upon the Right Honourable Thomas Aleyn, the present
Lord Mayor of this City, with many false and scandalous
Aspersions cast upon his Loreship, and the Committee appointed
by this Court, to confer with the Lord Fleetwood
touching the Peace and safety of this City: as if they had
deserted their Trust, at betrayed the Rights and Liberties of
this City, And in particular, that the said Committee seemed
satisfied with the Limitations of Parliament, called the seven
Principles or unalterable Fundamentals, printed in a late
scandalous Pamphlet styled The Publick Intelligencer; The
said Committee here openly declaring that they never heard
the said principles, or had them any way communicated to
them, much less ever Consented to the same or any of them.
This Court being deeply sensible of these great Indignities
doth declare, That the said Lord Mayor is so far from
deserving any the said Affronts or Aspersions, that he hath
highly merited the great Honour and Esteem of this Court
and the whole City, having in all things demeaned himself
with much Prudence and faithful Integrity, to this City and
Court which doth therefore return his Lordship their most
hearty thanks.
And that the said Committee in all their Transactions,
touching the Peace and safety of this City, have also discreetly
and faithfully discharged their trust, to their own
trouble, and great satisfaction of this Court.
And whereas this Court and City hath been lately represented
by some, as having deserted their first Cause and Declarations
for their taking Arms or joining with, the Parliament