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LR87 - Corporation of London Record Office - Repertory of the Court of Aldermen, 48, Freeman to Mowlson Mayor, fol. 431v-433

Notice in the Repertory of the Court of Aldermen that Jonson 's fee for being City Chronologer is restored, 18 Sept. 1634 . The document names Sir Thomas Moulson , Lord Mayor   , Sir Hugh Hammersley, recorder   , and the aldermen Sir James Cambell (1570-1642)   , Robert Cambell   , Sir George Whitmore (d. 1654)   , Robert Parkhurst (or Packhurst, d. 1636)   , Edward Bromfield   , Richard Fenn   , Maurice (Morris) Abbot (1565-1642)   , Backhouse, William Acton   , Smith, Wright , Perry, Pratt, and the deputy aldermen Harrison and Richard Gurney   . The record appears bound in the folio-sized repertory containing the records from Nov. 1633 to Oct. 1634. The records for 18 Sept. 1634 occupy fols. 431v-436v.
Eugene Giddens


[fol. 431v]
Jovis xviijo die Septembris 1634 Annoqr Regni Regis Caroli Anglie etc. Decimo /
[Trans.: Thursday 18th September 1634 in the tenth year of the reign of King Charles of England etc.]

Mowlson Maior Recorder Hamersley Cambell Whitmore Parkhurst Bromfeild Fen Abbott Backhousse Acton Smith Wright Cambell Perry Pratt et Harrison et Gurney Vic
[Trans.: Videlicet, i.e. namely these people] /


[fol. 433]
Ben: Johnson Cittys Cronologor C li mar kes a yeare

Item this day mr Recorder and Si r Hamersley knight and Aldrman declared vnto this Court his Majesties pleasure signified vnto them by the right honorable

[fol. 433v]
the Earle of Dorsett for and in the behalfe of of[sic] Beniamine Johnson the Cittys Cronologer Where=vpon it is ordered by this Court, that his yearely pencion of one hundred markes ⎡nobles⎤ ⎡ mistaken. 100 nobles perannum ⎤ out of the Chamber of London shalbe continued and that mr Chamberlen shall satisfie and pay vnto him all arrerages thereof /

Bibliography
JAB, 188
H&S, 1.241

Moulson became Lord Mayor in 1633.

Hammersley had been Lord Mayor in 1627.

James Cambell was an Ironmonger, alderman of Lion Street Ward (1625-), and had been Lord Mayor in 1629-30. His mayoral pageant was Dekker's Londons Tempe .

Sir James Cambell's brother, Robert Cambell was master of the Ironmongers' Company in 1631.

Whitmore had been Lord Mayor in 1631-2, and his mayoral pageant was Thomas Heywood's London 's Ius Honorarium . He was alderman for the Langbourne Ward from Nov. 1626-May 1643, and knighted in 1632.

Parkhurst was a clothworker, who became Lord Mayor in 1634: John Taylor 's The Triumph of Fame and Honour marked the occasion. His elder brother John Parkhurst was Master of Balliol.

Bromfield became Lord Mayor in 1637.

Fenn became Lord Mayor in 1638.

Abbot was a merchant, governor of the East India Co. and Lord Mayor of London in 1638-9, when Heywood's Porta Pietatis was his inaugural pageant. He became alderman of Bridge Without in 1626, sheriff of London in 1627, and was translated to Coleman Street in 1631. His brothers Robert and George were respectively bishop of Salisbury and archbishop of Canterbury.

Acton became Lord Mayor in 1641.

Gurney became Lord Mayor in 1642.