A Modest Enquiry Concerning The Election Of The Sheriffs of London And The Right of Choosing Demonstrate To belong unto, and to have been always adjudged to reside in the Lord Mayor, And the Common-Hall
London: Henry Mead, 1682. First edition. Hardcover. 46 pages. 20 x 15.5 cm. A fascinating tract about the election of London's sheriffs, written during the Exclusion Crisis in the late seventeenth century. This was a period of intense political turmoil between Whigs and Tories over whether Charles II's brother, James..... More