Memorandum quod Creswell Levinz miles attornatus domini regis nunc generalis qui pro eodem domino rege in hac parte sequitur in propria persona sua venit hic in curiam dicti domini regis coram ipso rege apud Westmonasterium, die Mercurii proximo post quindenam Paschæ isto eodem termino, et pro eodem domino rege dat curiam hic intelligi et informari, quod Nathaniel Thompson de parochia Sancti Dunstani in occidente Londoniæ Printer, et Willielmus Badcocke de parochia Sanctæ Bridgettæ alias Brides Londoniæ Wiredrawer, machinantes et malitiose intendentes agitare et procurare seditionem, litem, et discordiam inter diversos fideles subditos dicti domini regis nunc infra hoc regnum Angliæ, et præcipue inter gubernatores, inhabitantes, et parochianos parochiæ Sanctæ Bridgettæ alias Brides Londoniæ, et gubernationem, necnon gubernatores ejusdem parochiæ in contemptum, scandalum et infamiam cum prædictis parochianis prædictæ parochiæ Sanctæ Bridgettæ alias Brides inducere et inferre, decimo sexto die Aprilis, anno regni dicti domini regis nunc tricesimo secundo, apud parochiam Sancti Dunstani in occidente in warda de Farringdon extra Londoniam, quoddam odiosum, scandalosum, et diffamatorium libellum, intitulatum The _True Domestic Intelligence or News both from City and Country_ causaverunt, et uter eorum causavit imprimi, publicari, et dispergi in, per, et trans totam civitatem Londoniæ, et diversos alios comitatus et locos infra hoc regnum Angliæ, in quoquidem libello (inter alia) continetur quædam falsa, ficta, seditiosa, et scandalosa materia prout sequitur in hiis Anglicanis verbis, videlicet, _Several persons, Parishioners of St. Bride's, London, are going about in that Parish to get Subscriptions for destroying the Antient Annual Elective Vestry in that Parish, and to set up instead thereof a Rump Vestry for life; wherefore all the said Parishioners that are Rumpishly affected, may first consider the Act of Parliament, and his Majesties late Proclamation about tumultuous and factious Petitions for alteration of established Lawes and Customs, which will direct in this case. And note, the different effect of the said Vestries is this, That if any person of the Annual Elective Vestry do unlawfully, or against the good of the Parish, he may be turned out at the next Election, but the Rump Vestry are above that Interruption_. Et postea iidem Nathaniel et Willielmus ulterius machinantes et malitiose intendentes defamare et scandalizare prædictos gubernatores prædictæ parochiæ Sanctæ Bridgettæ alias Brides et gubernationem ejusdem parochiæ et seminare litem et discordiam inter prædictos gubernatores et parochianos ejusdem parochiæ Sanctæ Bridgettæ et eosdem in contemptum et ignominiam inferre et ducere postea scilicet vicesimo die Aprilis, anno regni dicti domini regis tricesimo secundo supradicto, apud parochiam Sancti Dunstani in occidente prædictam, in warda de Farringdon extra Londoniam prædicta, quoddam alium libellum scandalosum diffamatorium intitulatum _The True Domestic Intelligence or News both from City and Country_ similiter causaverunt, et quilibet eorum causavit imprimi, publicari, et dispergi, in, per, et trans totam civitatem Londoniæ, et diversos alios comitatus et locos infra hoc regnum Angliæ, in quoquidem libello ultimo mencionato (inter alia) continetur hæc alia falsa, ficta, seditiosa, et scandalosa materia, prout sequitur in hiis aliis Anglicanis verbis et figuris sequentibus videlicet _The great point now depending in St Bride's Parish, London, To advise how some persons may spend and waste the parish money and goods at pleasure, and how to secure the Officers from giving an honest account, and how some may lord it, and keep the rest of the parishioners in awe and incline them to give treats to be equally and lawfully dealt with. The opinion is summ'd up in short thus, That the crafty guilty ones should wheedle in the simple ones, about the eighth part of the Parishioners that do pay to the poor, and name themselves the majority, and subscribe their names for getting 15 or 20 persons composed into a Rump Vestry for life; And if 3 or 4 dissenting persons from the Church joyn with the rest 7 or 800, call them all such; and it will operate effectually, as 'tis conceived, or else be sure at the choice of Vestrymen to wheedle, wrangle, evade, shuffle, and hector the people, if possible, into a belief, that they are not themselves, and that a Negative Vote is senseless, and was never used in a free choice, but that 10 hands in the affirmative shall carry it against 2 or 300 that would be of the negative, else at the last shift allow onely the majority to be guess'd at without the distinction by Pole or Negative Vote with Hands. Note the Authority of St.