From Winchester September 8.
A Mayor for the next year, was this day to
be elected, not by their Charter, for that allows
them till Michaelmas day, but by an Ordinance
(as they call it) of their own making; and there
being some distractions in the Town, the present
Mayor, Mr Harwood, desired that they would
defer the Election till Monday next, and in the
mean time he would labour to make an Union
among the Electors; but that satisfied not, but
they were eager to goe on to Election; and to
that purpose gave command to the Sergeant at
Mace to go before them to St Johns-house, the
Mayor commanded him to goe into his own
house before him, and to bear the Mace with
him: whereupon there began a great mutiny,
insomuch that the Recorder; and one Mr Riggs,
one of the Aldermen, and severall others, set
upon the Mayor, threw off his Hat, wrested the
Mace out of his hand, and made the Sergeant
cary it before them to the Election-house; when
they were there, and had made some little stay
they came up to the Mayors, and in a Very humble
manner, desired him to walk down with
them; he (by the perswasion of a Minister then
with him, and pressed forward with hopes of
appeasing the Tumult) went with them; And
when he came, hoping to have found them flexible
to his request, he found the contrary:
Whereupon, he seeing they would not confont
to defer the Election, he desired them all to
take notice, that he by vertue of his Mayoralty
did adjourn the Assembly till Monday next, and