.

1353 Journal 46, fo. 142.

M684 Appointment of four city surveyors, 13 March, 1667.

1354 Journal 46, fos. 147b-148.

1355 Journal 46, fos. 170b, 189. According to the evidence of the State
Papers the king appears to have suggested Bolton's appointment as
surveyor-general by letters to the Common Council, dated the 31st
May and the 5th June, 1667 (Cal. State Papers Dom., 1667, pp. 133,
151). It does not, however, appear to have been considered by the
Common Council until the 14th Sept. There may have been good reason
for the City declining to place the mayor in such a responsible
position of trust, for a few weeks later (3 Dec.) he was suspected
of misappropriating money subscribed to assist the poor of the city,
and pending enquiry was forbidden to attend the Court of Aldermen or
any public function (Repertory 73, fos. 28b, 61, 93b, 95, 95b,
107b). After bringing a charge against the Bishop of London in
September, 1668, of misappropriating the sum of L50, and afterwards
withdrawing, he was himself convicted in 1675 of having embezzled
large sums of money intended for the poor (Repertory 73, fos. 260b,
264, 292b, 303; Repertory 80, fo. 119b). Reduced to poverty, he was
granted by the City an allowance of L3 a week, which after his
decease was continued to his widow (Journal 49, fo. 100b).

M685 Classification of streets, lanes, etc., 21 March. 1667.

1356 Journal 46, fos. 148b, 149.

1357 Original notification from the court at Whitehall, 22 March, 1667,
preserved in the Town Clerk's office.

1358 Journal 46, fos. 151-152.

1359 The sums of money disbursed by the chamberlain between June and
November, 1667, for this purpose are kept on record.--See Report on
Corporation Records, 1869, Appendix iii, "Chamberlain's Strong
Room."

1360 Journal 46, fo. 172.

M686 Allotment of market sites.

1361 Id., fos. 187b-188.

1362 Journal 46, fos. 210, 210b.

1363 Pepys, Diary.

M687 The coal duty raised to 2 _s._ a chaldron. 1670. Stat. 22 Car. II,
c. 11.

1364 Journal 47, fos. 2b, 20b, 43b, 72-73, 146b, 291.--See Report on
Corporation Records, 16 Dec., 1869, Appendix iii, p. 49.

1365 Repertory 72, fo. 81b.

1366 Journal 46, fo. 129b; Journal House of Commons, viii, 654, 657.

1367 Repertory 72, fo. 6b.

1368 The officers of the works to the king,