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Tlze Clzronzkles of Ross 361
welcome appearance of ye said Charter, w"' was by my remarks and observations as
hereunder :-
“ In the first place-
“I had the honor to heare the sound of Drums, ye harmonious noise of
Violens, ye voyces of virgins, and the Musicall straine of pipers. Then appeared
the new Mayor-Patrick White, Esqr., a person of comendable presence, Excel-
lently mounted on a stately Gray gelding, attended by fifty proper comely young
men, all decently clad in white, marching before him to the Soveraigne’s house,
of which number the Mayor’s second sonne, a young man of Vigor and Courage,
was one.
“The Mayor and Soveraigne were saluted by the Recorder, Luke Dormer,
Esqr., Patrick Colclough, Esqr., high sheriffe, Captn. Walter Butler, Edward Fitz-
Henry, Esqr., Robert Carew, Esqr., and divers other Justices of the Peace, their
. and numbers of other gentlemen who came expressly, about ten of the Clock
in the morning, from the countrey, to waite on the Mayor, and to atend him to
receive ye Charter; and then assembled togeather all the Burgesses and Members
of the Corporation to augment that number of my Lord Chief Justice Nugent,
Alderman Edward Roth, Mr. jasper, and Mr. Nicholas White onley excepted, that
being caused by their absence.
“Those persons of note, with allowance and place to each other, according to
their respective meritts and qualities, marched and ride out of towne with the fifty
white boys above-mentioned, with white rods in their hands like sheriffs . . . .
before them, and then met with the Companies of Trades belonging to the Cor-
poration, each Company under ye Conduct and charge of a Captain, with Collrs
tiying, iidlers, and pipers playing, &c.
“The Mayor, &c., betooke themselves in state to the bounds and Liberties of
the Corporation where they did not long continue, when Robert Leigh Colclough,
William Hore, Esq., Patrick Lambert, Esq., Walter Hore, Esq., Mr. Ambrose
Sutton, the Sub-Sheriff, his two proper Sonns, and about one hundred of other
gentlemen (divers whereof ‘were Sqr. Leigh Colclough’s Tenants and Servants) did
aproach guarding the Charter, which was enclosed in a Large stately case, gilt with
gold, and brought upon one of Sqr. Leigh Colclough’s best geldings by his cheefest
gentleman, the sqr. being the only . . . . . in surrendering the old Charter and
obtaining the new, with all immunities and priviledges.
“The Mayor returned his worship . . . . . that great service which allowed at
that time soe great . . . . . and Content to the Corporation.
“When that friendly salutation was over as aforesaid, all the . . . . . of trades
marched first, fower in a breast; then the seame . . . . . flying after them ye
porters, commanded by the Master Porter. The Sergent-at-Mace, ye Waterbayley,
the Corporation Bayliffs before the Soveraigne, the Soveraigne by himselfe, before
the Mayor, Recorder, High Sheriffe. . . . . Leigh Colclough; then all the persons
of note with their respective . . . . . and according to their qualities, attended by
their Servants, and numbers of others, exceeding in all about three thousand per-