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The City of London's State Sword and Mace being carried from the Royal Courts of Justice at the Lord Mayor's Show of Sir David Wootton in 2011 . The City of London Swords are five two-handed ceremonial swords belonging to the Corporation of London, namely the Mourning (or Black) Sword, the Pearl Sword, the State (or Sunday) Sword, the Old Bailey Sword and the Mansion House Justice Room Sword.
This is a list of all mayors and lord mayors of London (leaders of the City of London Corporation, and first citizens of the City of London). Until 1354, the title held was mayor of London . The dates are those of being elected to office on 29 September , excepting those years when it fell on the Sabbath ; the office is not actually entered ...
The Lord Mayor of London is the mayor of the City of London, England, and the leader of the City of London Corporation.Within the City, the Lord Mayor is accorded precedence over all individuals except the sovereign [1] and retains various traditional powers, rights, and privileges, including the title and style The Right Honourable Lord Mayor of London.
The Lord Mayor of Dublin is the head of Dublin City Council and first citizen of Dublin. The title was created in 1229 as Mayor of Dublin. It was elevated to Lord Mayor in 1665. The date of the election is the end of June, and the term of office is one year.
Four of the lord mayors and two of the lord provosts have the right to the style The Right Honourable. Before 1863, only York, the City of London, and Dublin had lord mayors, and only Edinburgh and Glasgow had lord provosts. The first four were styled The Right Honourable. Aberdeen was given a lord provost in 1863.
The Lord Mayor of York is the chairman of City of York Council, ... First to use ceremonial sword. [11] 1390–1391: Thomas Smyth [12] 1392–1393: Robert Savage [13]
[2] [3] It is sometimes said that the sword in the 1381 arms represents the dagger used by Lord Mayor of London William Walworth to kill Wat Tyler, leader of the Peasants' Revolt, on 15 June 1381. This tradition dates at least as far back as the first edition of Holinshed's Chronicles , published in 1577, but cannot be correct, as the arms were ...
Lord Mayor of London with the Crystal Sceptre, 1821. The Crystal Sceptre (occasionally described as a mace) is part of the regalia of the Lord Mayor of London.It was presented to the City of London by King Henry V in return for having provided the king with 10,000 marks (£6,666) to fund a war in France in 1415, when his army captured Harfleur and then won the Battle of Agincourt.