[An information brought against the Mayor and citizens of London
was "for usurping of divers franchises and liberties within the
said city, and for assuming to themselves an unlawful power to
levy several great sums of money, as well upon the said citizens
of London as strangers; and in particular upon those which come to
the markets of the said city, by colour of the laws and ordinances
in their Common Council by them in fact ordained and established,
without any other right or authority." The circumstance which gave
occasion for this _quo warranto_ to be brought against the City
charter, was a petition the Court of Aldermen and City made to the
King, upon his prorogation of Parliament, when they were going to
try several noblemen concerned in the Popish plot; but especially
for their printing and publishing the petition, which was
considered seditious. For particulars relating to this celebrated
trial, we must refer our correspondent to the following
tracts:--_The Case of the Charter of London Stated_, fol. 1683.
This is an ingenious treatise against the charter. _A Defence of
the Charter and Municipal Rights of the City of London_, by Thomas
Hunt, 4to.; _The Lawyer Outlawed; or a Brief Answer to Mr. Hunt's
Defence of the Charter_, 4to. 1683; _The Forfeitures of London's
Charter, or an Impartial Account of the several Seisures of the
City Charter_, 4to. 1682; _Reflections on the City Charter, and
Writ of Quo Warranto_, 4to. 1682; _The City of London's Plea to
the Quo Warranto_, (an information) _brought against their Charter
in Michaelmas Term_, 1681, fol. 1682. A summary account of the
whole proceedings will be found in Maitland's _History of London_,
vol. i. pp. 473-484.]
_St. Alkald._--Upon looking over a sheet of the Ordnance Map lately
published, on which part of the parish of Giggleswick is laid down, I
find that the patron saint, to whom the church is dedicated, is St.
Alkald. No calendar that I have access to mentions any such saint. I
shall be obliged by any of your correspondents giving me some account of
him, or referring me to any book where I may read his history.