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Robert Sinclair, Esq. Recorder. | ||
John Pemberton Heywood, and S. W. Nicholl, Esqrs. City Counsel | ||
ALDERMEN. | ||
!Thomas Wilson, Esq. (and father of the city.) | !George Peacock, Esq. | *W.H. Hearon, Esq |
!William Hotham, Esq. | !Right Hon. Lord Dundas | *John Dale, Esq. |
!William Ellis, Esq. | *Thomas Smith. Esq. | *R. Chaloner, Esq. M.P. |
*John Kilby, Esq. | *William Dunslay, Esq. | *James Saunders, Esq. |
Those marked thus ! have served the Office of Lord Mayor twice. Those marked thus * have served the Office once. |
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SHERIFFS. | ||
John Cobb, Esq. | Charles Liddell, Esq. (Whose Offices expire on the 2d. of September,1823.) | Richard Townsend, Esq. Town Clerk. |
Gentlemen who have served the Office of Sheriff, called the Twenty-Four. |
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George Healey, gent. | Geo.Dodsworth,gent. | Joseph Agar, gent. |
Robert Cattle, gent. | John Hodgson | Edmund Gill |
William Hornby | Stephen Hartley | William Blanchard |
Thomas Beal | James Shepherd | John Sutcliffe |
Thomas Rayson | G.W.Wentworth | Robert Lakeland |
George Darbyshire | Cook Taylor | William Oldfield |
William Cooper | William Bilton | John Wormald |
George Wilkinson | John Jackson | George Fettes |
George Cressey | Thomas Cattley | Wm.Stephenson Clark |
Joseph Volans | Christopher Cattle | |
CHAMBERLAINS.....Whose Offices expire the 3d of February, 1823. | ||
Mr. John Allanson Bulmer | Mr. Edward Elgin | Mr. Wm. Thurnham |
Mr. John Wilson | Mr. Wm. Strickland, jun. | Mr. Matthew Hornsey |
Walmgate Ward, | Monk Ward, | Bootham Ward, | Micklegate Ward |
Mr. Thomas Bewlay, Foreman of the Commons | Mr. Thomas Bell | Mr. George Burnill | Mr. William Stead |
Mr. Matthew Browne | Mr. John Hurwood | Mr. Thomas Brearey | Mr. Matthew Walker |
Mr. Joseph Davis | Mr. Richard Kilner | Mr. Samuel Knapton | Mr. William Coates |
Mr. William Cartwright | Mr. James Whitwell | Mr. William Judson | Mr. Edward Seagrave |
Mr. Thomas Fowler | Mr. William Ingram | Mr. William Hudson | Mr. William Ferrand |
Mr. John Ward | Mr. William Scawin | Mr. Richard Williamson | Mr. John Kirlew |
Mr. Joseph Wood | Mr. William Dalton | Mr. John Walker | Mr. William Stead, jun. |
Mr. Thomas Sanderson | Mr. Emanuel Siddall | Mr. James Barber | Mr. William Chapman |
Mr. Francis Richardson | Mr. John Benson | Mr. Richard Brown | Mr. Richard Rawdon |
Mr. John James Baker | Mr. Robert Gibson | Mr. William Cattell | Mr. Leonard Overend |
Mr. George Ellis | Mr. John Lawton | Mr. George Ellis | Mr. Thomas Rayson, jun. |
Mr. Thomas Benson | Mr. Richard Hornby | Mr. Joseph Marshall | Mr. Henry Cave |
Mr. James Day | Mr. Thomas Wilkinson | Mr. William Robinson | Mr. Thomas Peacock |
Mr. William Peacock | Mr. John Pearson | Mr. Robert Pulleyn | Mr. Francis Calvert |
Mr. John Ickeringill | Mr. William Cowling | Mr. William Hargrove | Mr. Michael Varvill |
Mr. John Slater | Mr. Henry Cobb | Mr. Edward Jackson | Mr. Christopher Watson |
Mr. William Blanchard | Mr. William Pearson | Mr. Robert Jennings | Mr. Henry Steward |
Mr. William Evers | Mr. William Huble | Mr. William Storry | Mr. John Simpson |
Prothonotary, John Seymour, Esq.- City Steward, Mr. Peter Atkinson, Esquires to the Lord Mayor - Mr William Baynes and Mr. William Eadon. Chaplain. Rev. William Flower, Sen. Four Officers at Mace, viz. Thomas Kimber, Francis Burr, John Sanderson and Wm. Bell. Chief Constable for the City, Mr. William Baynes, Petergate. Chief Constables for Ainsty, Mr. Tho. Beal, Dring Houses, & Mr. Geo. Steward, Blossom st. Porter to Lord Mayor, Geo. Lund. Police Officer, Wm.Pardoe City Informer, Jas. Pardoe. The Coroners for the City and Ainsty, are Messrs. Samuel Cowling, Davygate, and Robert Ellison, Castlegate; and for the Liberty of St. Peter's, Mr. John Plowman, of Haxby, and Mr. John Richardson, of Colliergate, York.
The Lord Mayor is the
King's Lieutenant in his absence: he takes the chair in the presence
of the Judge of Assize, who sits on his right hand; at the Sessions
he is supreme; and no act or law for the government of the city
can be valid without his presence. This officer is annually chosen
on the 15th of January, and on the 3d of February, the Lord Mayor
elect, as he is called during the interval, enters upon his office.
If the Lord Mayor be married, his wife is dignified with the title
of Lady Mayoress, and in addressing her, the term " My Lady,"
is applied. In Drake's time, though the husband parted with both
honour and title at the time he was divested of office, yet by
the courtesy of York, in favour of the fair sex, her ladyship
still enjoyed her title, by no other right perhaps, but that of
an old rhyming proverb, which says.
" He is a Lord for a year and a day, But she is a Lady
for ever and for ay."
This courtesy towards the Lady Mayoress has, however, now ceased,
and at the expiration of her husband's year of office, the term
'My Lady' is dropped, unless she was previously entitled
to it by marriage, or in her own right.
The residence of the Lord Mayor is the Mansion house, a stately
edifice, built in the year 1726. and which stands at the north
end of Coney Street, near Lendal, and occupies the site of the
ancient chapel of the Guild of St. Christopher. The revenue of
the Lord Mayor was formerly derived chiefly from the toll of corn
coming to the market, but that toll in 1784, was liberally relinquished
by the corporation, and this mansion is the scene of his hospitalities.
The stateroom, where the chief magistrate gives his entertainments,
is 49 feet 6 inches in length, and 27 feet 9 inches in breadth,
and is lighted in front by a double tier of windows. There are
here eight valuable portraits in excellent preservation: of his
present Majesty, presented by him to the Corporation; King William
III.; George II.; the late Marquis of Rockingham; Sir John Lister
Kaye, M.P. and Lord Mayor, in 1737; Lord Bingley, M.P. and Lord
Mayor in 1757, (when George Lane Fox, Esq.); Sir Wm. M. Milner,
M.P. and Lord Mayor in 1797 and 1798; Lord Dundas, Lord Mayor
in 1811, (when the Hon. Lawrence Dundas, M.P.) and in 1821, when
Lord Dundas, and the only English Peer ever Lord Mayor of York.
It is worthy of remark, that York had the honour to set the Corporation
of London the example of erecting a Mansion-House for their Lord
Mayor.
The Guild Hall is situated behind the Mansion-House, and was
built in the year 1446. In this fine Gothic hall, which is ninety-six
feet long, by forty-three feet wide, the Assizes for the city
are held, and it is then formed into two courts, the Crown Court
at the end of the Hall, and the Nisi Prius Court near the entrance.
The elections for members of parliament are also held here, and
it may be proper in this place to mention, that the city of York
is at present represented in parliament by Marmaduke Wyvill and
Robert Chaloner, Esqrs. who, like the corporation of the city
they represent, are both of the whig party. Three times a week,
namely, on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, the Lord Mayor and
at least one alderman sit at the Guild Hall, for the administration
of justice; and the business of the Quarter Sessions for the city
is also transacted in this place. At the end of this hall are
several rooms for the grand and petit juries, one of which is
called the Inner Room, in which the County Court, for the recovery
of debts in the County, not exceeding Five Pounds, consolidated
with the Sheriffs Turn Court, and the Court of Common Pleas, is
held weekly, usually on the Tuesday.
The Council Chambers is a building of modern erection adjoining
the Guild Hall. When the old Council Chambers of the city upon
Ouse-Bridge, were taken down in, 1810, these chambers were built
adjoining the Inner Room, and the Lower House, namely,
the Common Council, hold their deliberations in one of them, while
the Upper house, consisting of the Lord Mayor, Recorder,
City Council, Aldermen, Sheriffs, and the Gentlemen of the Twenty-Four
assemble, in the Upper Chamber.
Libraries
Amongst its other public institutions York enjoys the advantage
of an excellent Subscription Library, containing about ten thousand
volumes in the various branches of science and literature. This
institution was commenced in the year 1794, but it was not till
the year 1811, that the present Library Room, which is very eligibly
situated in St. Helen's Square, was built. The number of members
at present amounts to four hundred and seventy-seven; the mode
of admission is by ballot, and the terms are ten guineas entrance,
and an annual subscription of twenty-six shillings, paid in advance.
Mr. Joseph Shepherd is the Librarian. There are in York some other
Libraries, Subscription and Circulating, the principal of which
is, the Select Subscription Library, in Lady Peckett's yard, Pavement.
On the ground floor, under the York Subscription Library, in
St. Helen's Square, there is a Subscription News Room, handsomely
fitted up, and furnished with the London and country newspapers.
Subscribers are admitted by ballot, and the members of the room
have each the privilege of introducing a friend, not resident
in York, for one month, on registering his name in a book kept
for that purpose. The annual subscription is one guinea, and the
admission fee ten shillings and sixpence. There are also two other
Subscription News Rooms, one at the York Tavern, and the other,
called the York Club Room, at Etridge's Hotel.
Cavalry Barracks
The Cavalry Barracks, erected in 1796, are situated at a distance
of about a mile S.W. of the city, on the Fulford road. The cost
of these erections, with the twelve acres of ground appropriated
to the purpose, has been little short of £30,000 and the
accommodation they afford is for three field officers, five captains,
nine sub-alterns, four quarter-masters, two hundred and forty
non-commissioned officers and privates, and 266 horses. The parade
ground is very extensive, and in front of the range appropriated
to the officers is a large grass plot, for the accommodation of
the numerous and fashionable company who frequently attend to
hear the fine martial Band which plays upon the parade. Mr. Anthony
Lefroy is the barrack master.
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