Lord Mayor’s Day and the Lord Mayor’s Show was another City festival red letter day from early times. Until the year 1752, when the Act for altering the calendar came into force, the presentation of the Lord Mayor took place on October 29, but since that year it has been November 9. Sir John Norman, “Draper,” in 1452, was the first chief magistrate to go to Westminster by water; Lord Mayor Finnis, in 1856, the last. Most of the Lord Mayors have had their shows, the pageantry at which has been most elaborate, especially during the seventeenth century. The following is a complete list of the “Ironmonger” Lord Mayors:— 1409-10 } Sir Richard Marlow 1417-18 } 1442-43 Sir John Hatherley 1566-67 Sir Christopher Draper 1569-70 Sir Alexander Avenon 1581-82 Sir James Harvey 1592-93 Sir William Rowe 1609-10 Sir Thomas Cambell 1618-19 Sir Sebastian Harvey 1629-30 Sir James Cambell 1635-36 Sir Christopher Cletherow 1685-86 Sir Robert Geffery 1714-15 Sir William Humfreys, Bart. 1719-20 Sir George Thorold, Bart. 1741-42 Sir Robert Godschall (who died in his mayoralty on June 26, 1742) 1749-50 Sir Samuel Pennant (who died in his mayoralty on May 20, 1750) 1751-52 Robert Alsop (elected upon the death of Thomas Winterbottom, June 4, 1751) 1762-63 } William Beckford (died June 21, 1770; see his monument 1769-70 } in Guildhall) 1802-03 Sir Charles Price, Bart. 1810-11 J. J. Smith, Esq. (Lord Nelson’s executor) 1828-29 William Thompson, Esq. As we have already stated, some of the early Lord Mayor’s Shows were elaborate, and illustrative of the Company’s trade name. They will be found chronicled in Nichols’s “Pageants” and in Fairholt’s “Lord Mayor’s Day Pageants” (Percy Society, 1843-45). The Guildhall Banquet tickets during the past 100 years have been exceedingly interesting as specimens of design and printing, the early ones being by Bartolozzi and his school. A nearly complete set is in our own collection, those at Guildhall, strangely enough, only dating back some fifty years, the reason being that the show and banquet has always been the private and personal festival of the Lord Mayor and two Sheriffs, the former paying a moiety of the expenses, the total generally ranging from 2,000_l._ to 3,000_l._ It is, therefore, a vulgar error to suppose that the Citizens and ratepayers are taxed a penny.