This famous and
most Honorable
Citie of London,
hauing (for many
hundred yeares)
had the Royall
preheminence, to
make choyce of
her chiefe Magistrate, by the title of Lord
Maior, and two Sheireffes, as his worthy
Assistants in Office for the yeares authority,
vnder the highest and supreme
power enioying the same by free voice &
sufferages of publick election, in the
Guild-Hall
of
London. Now in this instant yeare
1618. Sir
Sebastian Haruey, Knight, and
Aldermam of this Noble City, and free
of the Right Worshipfull Company of
Ironmongers, being chosen into that great
and gracefull dignity; his affectionate &
kinde Brethren (according to ancient and
precedent custome, obserued to many
more
Lord Maiors of the same Society)
did thus tender their willing and hearty
seruice to him, vpon the day of his inauguration,
when (passing by Barge with
the other Aldermen his Brethren) hee
went to take his Oath at
Westminster, on
Thursday the 29. of October.