Minutes of a Whig Club: 1714

MINUTES OF A WHIG CLUB 1714-1717

(Guildhall Library MS. 197)

1. (p. 1) Names of the members of a club. Richard Houblon esq.; Mr Henry Lyell, Broad Street Ward; Charles Cooke esq., Bishopsgate Without; John Eyles esq., Aldgate; Thomas Woodford esq., Broad Street; Mr Joshua Bagshaw, Lime Street; Col. John Shorey, Bassishaw; Mr Samuel Trench, Cordwainer; Mr John Younge, Cheap; Major Richard Lechmere, Tower; Mr John Daye, Cornhill; Robert Baylis esq., Bread Street; John London esq., Coleman Street; Mr Richard Blowen, Cripplegate Without; Major John Hatley, Farringdon Within; (p. 2) Mr James Fisher, Billingsgate Ward; Mr James Cooper, Vintry; Mr Gabriel Smythe, Langbourn; Samuel Perry esq., Portsoken; Mr John Warner [blank]; Mr Moses Raper, Dowgate; Mr John Thompson, Candlewick.

2. (p. 3) The names of the several wards and their representatives. Aldersgate Within [blank]; Aldersgate Without [blank]; Aldgate, Mr Eyles; Bassishaw, Col. Shorey; Billingsgate, Mr Fisher; Bishopsgate Within [blank]; Bishopsgate Without, Mr Cooke; Bread Street, Mr Baylis; Bridge [blank]; Broad Street, Mr Woodford, Mr Lyell; Candlewick, Mr Thompson; Castle Baynard [blank]; Cheap, Mr Younge; Coleman Street, Mr London; (p. 4) Cordwainer, Mr Trench; Cornhill, Mr Daye; Cripplegate Within [blank]; Cripplegate Without, Mr Blowen; Dowgate, Mr Raper; Farringdon Within, Major Hatley; Farringdon Without (Holborn Side) [blank]; Farringdon Without (Fleet Street Side), Mr Warner; Langbourn, Mr Smythe; Lime Street, Mr Bagshaw; Portsoken, Mr Perry; Queenhithe [blank]; Tower, Major Lechmere; Vintry, Mr Cooper; Walbrook [blank].

Vide Wards' and Precincts' names, page 55 [63].

3. (p. 5) Thursday, 20 May 1714. Present: Mr Woodford, Mr Cooke, Mr Lyell, Mr Houblon, Mr Bagshaw, Mr Trench, Mr Shorey, Mr Daye, Mr Younge.

It having been agreed upon the settling of this club that every member thereof at the first meeting after each Quarter Day shall pay to the Secretary one guinea towards defraying the ordinary and extraordinary charges of the year to be computed from Lady Day 1714.

Ordered, that the Secretary do prepare a list of the names of the members and their quarterly contributions and that the same be laid upon the table every time the club meets.

(p. 6) Every member of the club that has completed his ward book is desired to leave the same with the Secretary.

That the names of the liverymen therein contained may as soon as possible be posted into the books wherein are kept lists of the liveries of the several Companies in this City.

Ordered, that the Secretary do copy the lists of the liveries of the several Companies in so many several books as there are liveries, and that the same books be of the same size of paper and ruling as the specimen now agreed to.

Ordered, that the householders of the several wards be copied in books according (p. 7) to the precincts or divisions in each ward.

Ordered, that the names of the said householders be also copied in ward books, and that the same books be of the like paper and ruling with the specimen now agreed to.

Agreed, that the future meetings of this club be on every Thursday at seven of the clock in the evening.

Agreed, that every member of this club at the weekly meetings do pay two shillings to defray the expenses of the reckoning.

4. (p. 8) Thursday, 27 May 1714. Present: Mr Lyell, Mr Baylis, Mr Woodford, Mr Trench, Mr Younge, Mr Cooke, Mr Bagshawe, Mr Eyles.

The specimens for the livery books and the ward books brought in and approved.

5. Thursday, 10 June 1714. Present: Mr Cooke, Mr Woodford, Mr Lyell, Mr London, Mr Baylis, Major Lechmere, Mr Younge, Mr Daye.

Received of Mr Cooke the surplus of former reckonings: 8s. 6d.

Received by the surplus of the reckoning this night: 2s. 6d.

6. (p. 9) Thursday, 17 June 1714. Present: Mr Woodford, Mr Lyell, Mr Houblon, Mr Trench, Col. Shorey, Mr Bagshaw, Mr Daye, Mr Younge.

Received by the surplus of the reckoning this night: 1s. 6d.

7. Thursday, 24 June 1714. Midsummer Day. Present: Mr Cooke, Mr Woodford, Mr Lyell, Mr Baylis, Mr Bagshaw, Col. Shorey, Mr Daye, Mr Eyles.

Received of Mr Bagshaw the surplus of former reckonings: 14s.

Received by the surplus of the reckoning this night: 5s. 10d.

8. (p. 10) Thursday, 1 July 1714. Present: Mr Woodford, Mr Younge, Mr Lyell, Mr Cooke, Mr Daye, Major Lechmere, Mr Trench, Mr Baylis, Mr Bagshaw.

Received of all the gentlemen present (except Mr Bagshaw) one guinea apiece for their quarterage at Midsummer: £8 12s.

9. Thursday, 8 July 1714. Present: Mr Cooke, Mr Baylis, Mr Woodford, Col. Shorey, Mr Younge, Mr Lyell, Major Lechmere.

Persons recommended to be admitted members of the club: Billingsgate Ward, Mr James Fisher; Bridge, Mr Richard West; Candlewick, Mr Micklethwaite; (p. 11) Castle Baynard, Mr Awnsham Churchill or Mr Deacle; Cripplegate Within, Capt. Daniel Lock; Cripplegate Without, Mr Richard Blowen; Dowgate, Mr Gould or Mr Matthew Shepherd; Farringdon Within, Major John Hatley; Farringdon Without (Holborn Side), Capt. Lewis, Mr Hibbert or Mr Dixon; Farringdon Without (Fleet Street Side), Col. Gower, Mr Goodwin or Mr Hasell; Langbourn, Mr Gabriel Smythe, Mr Hankey or Deputy Cooper; (p. 12) Portsoken, Mr Samuel Perry; Queenhithe, Capt. John Skey or Capt. Henry Langley; Vintry, Mr Deputy William Cooke; Walbrook, Mr Timbrell.

Received by the surplus of the reckoning this night: 6s. 6d.

10. (p. 13) Thursday, 15 July 1714. Present: Mr Daye, Mr Younge, Major Lechmere, Mr Bagshaw, Col. Shorey, Mr Trench, Mr Woodford.

Received by the surplus of the reckoning this night: 1s. 6d.

Mr Trench and Col. Shorey are desired to bring with them such gentlemen as they have engaged to become members of the club to the next meeting.

11. Thursday, 22 July 1714. Present: Mr Cooke, Mr Woodford, Mr Lyell, Mr Baylis, Mr Bagshaw, Mr Younge, Mr Daye, Major Lechmere, Mr Blowen.

Received by the surplus of the reckoning this night: 2s.

12. (p. 14) Thursday, 29 July 1714. Present: Mr Cooke, Mr Lyell, Major Lechmere, Col. Shorey, Mr Bagshaw, Mr Daye, Mr Trench.

Received by the surplus of the reckoning this night: 3s. 6d.

13. Thursday, 5 August 1714. Present: Mr Cooke, Mr Woodford, Mr. Baylis, Mr Lyell, Mr Eyles, Mr Trench, Mr Daye, Mr Younge, Col. Shorey, Major Lechmere.

Received by the surplus of the reckoning this night: 6d.

14. (p. 15) Thursday, 12 August 1714. Present: Mr Woodford, Mr Baylis, Mr Houblon, Mr Eyles, Mr Cooke, Mr Bagshaw, Major Lechmere, Mr Daye, Mr Younge.

Received of Mr Eyles and Mr Houblon for their quarterage due at Midsummer: £2 3s.

Received by the surplus of the reckoning this night: 6s. 10d.

15. Thursday, 19 August 1714. Present: Mr London, Mr Woodford, Mr Cooke, Mr Daye, Mr Younge, Mr Bagshaw, Col. Shorey, Major Hatley.

Received of Mr Bagshaw for his quarterage due at Midsummer: £1 1s. 6d.

Paid to make up the reckoning this night: 6s. 6d.

16. (p. 16) Thursday, 26 August 1714. Present: Mr Eyles, Mr Woodford, Mr Cooke, Mr Younge, Major Lechmere.

Received by the surplus of the reckoning this night: 2s. 6d.

17. Thursday, 2 September 1714. Present: Mr Daye, Mr Younge, Col. Shorey, Major Lechmere, Mr Bagshaw.

[No minute]

18. (p. 17) Thursday, 9 September 1714. Present: Mr Cooke, Mr Woodford, Mr Lyell, Mr Trench, Major Lechmere, Mr Daye, Mr Younge.

Paid to make up the reckoning this night: 8d.

19. Thursday, 16 September 1714. Present: Mr Daye, Major Lechmere, Mr Bagshaw, Mr Younge, Mr Cooke.

Received by the surplus of the reckoning this night: 1s.

20. (p. 18) Wednesday, 22 September 1714. Present: Mr Eyles, Mr Woodford, Mr Lyell, Mr Cooke, Mr Baylis, Mr Younge, Mr Bagshaw, Mr Blowen, Mr Fisher, Major Lechmere.

Received by the surplus of the reckoning this night: 8s. 9d.

21. Thursday, 30 September 1714. Present: Mr Daye, Col. Shorey, Major Hatley, Mr Younge, Mr Fisher, Mr Bagshaw.

[No minute]

22. (p. 19) Thursday, 7 October 1714. Present: Mr Woodford, Mr Cooke, Mr Lyell, Mr Baylis, Mr Houblon, Mr Eyles, Major Lechmere, Mr Daye, Mr Younge.

Received by the surplus of the reckoning this night: 2s. 6d.

23. Thursday, 14 October 1714. Present: Mr Younge, Mr Daye, Col. Shorey, Major Hatley, Mr Fisher, Major Lechmere.

[No minute]

24. (p. 20) Thursday, 21 October 1714. Present: Mr Woodford, Mr Cooke, Mr Lyell, Mr Daye, Mr Younge, Mr Fisher, Mr Bagshaw.

Received by the surplus of the reckoning this night: 6d.

25. Thursday, 4 November 1714. Present: Mr Fisher, Mr Bagshaw, Col. Shorey, Major Lechmere, Mr Younge, Mr Daye.

Paid to make up the reckoning this night: 6d.

26. (p. 21) Thursday, 11 November 1714. Present: Mr Cooke, Mr Woodford, Mr Eyles, Mr Baylis, Mr Lyell, Mr Daye, Mr Fisher, Major Lechmere.

Paid to make up the reckoning this night: 2s. 4d.

27. (p. 22) Thursday, 18 November 1714. Present: Mr Lyell, Mr Fisher, Mr Daye, Col. Shorey, Mr Blowen, Mr Eyles, Mr Perry, Mr Younge, Mr Cooke, Mr London, Mr Trench, Mr Baylis, Major Hatley, Mr Woodford, Major Lechmere, Mr Smythe, Mr Bagshaw.

Received by the surplus of the reckoning this night: 12s.

28. (p. 23) Thursday, 25 November 1714. Present: Mr Eyles, Mr Lyell, Major Hatley, Mr Younge, Mr Cooke, Col. Shorey.

Received by the surplus of the reckoning this night: 3s. 11d.

29. Thursday, 2 December 1714. Present: Col. Shorey, Major Hatley, Mr Bagshaw, Mr Younge, Mr Cooke, Mr Daye.

Received by the surplus of the reckoning this night: 10d.

30. (p. 24) Thursday, 16 December 1714. Present: Mr Trench, Mr Bagshaw, Mr Fisher, Major Lechmere, Mr Daye, Major Hatley, Mr Woodford, Mr Younge, Mr Cooper, Col. Shorey.

Persons inhabiting in Cornhill Ward who may be influenced at the next election of Common Councilmen: Nathaniel Halhead, by Sir Robert Furnese, Jeoffrey Staines, Mr Moses Berringer (memorandum, Mr Bagshaw to speak to Mr Staines); John Bulley, by Capt. Hyde, George Hatley (memorandum, Mr Woodford to speak to Capt. Hyde); John Akerman, by East India Company or Mr Ellwick; Charles Norris, by Mr Bagshaw; Samuel Manship, by the Lord Chancellor [Baron Cowper] or Mr Woodford; Edward Barber, by the same; [blank] Marshall, by the same; Joseph King, by Major Hatley.

(p. 25) Received by the surplus of the reckoning this night: 4s. 4d.

31. Thursday, 23 December 1714. Present: Mr Cooke, Mr Daye, Major Hatley, Mr Younge.

Paid to make up the reckoning this night: 4s. 10d.