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held exclusively at Sephton, in a room called the "Mansion House." 

 After 178 J chiefly on account of the inclemency of the weather during 

 the winter, the meetings were held partly at Sephton and partly at 

 Bootle ; at Sephton during summer, and atBootle in the winter months, 

 from the first Sunday after the 18th of October to the middle of May. 

 The place of meeting at Bootlo was the "Bootle Coffee House." 



" The constitution of this Corporation was very similar to that of all 

 Corporations, mock or otherwise. It was composed of a Mayor, two 

 Bailiffs, a Recorder, a Town Clerk, a certain number of Aldermen and 

 Common Council Men, a Sword and Mace Bearer, a Bellman, together 

 with a number of Free Burgesses. The Mayor and Bailiffs (the Mayor's 

 Bailiff and the Town Bailiff) were elected annually on St. Luke's Day, 

 the 18th of October — the ancient day of electing the Mayor of Liverpool 

 until 1836, and probably in imitation of it," and on the same day, or 

 the Sunday following, the other members, v/ith few exceptions, had in 

 addition to the sober titles by which they were known, some mock office 

 or other conferred on them, as follows : — 



" Alderman Whalley, Master of Harriers. 



Mr. Alex. Wotberspoon, An African Committee Man. 



,, Thos. Ne"wsham, Punch Maker. 



,, E. Newsham, Attorney General. 



„ Willames, Master of the Dramatis Personas. 



,, Gaskell, Commissioner to the Hackney Coaches. 



,, \Vm. Doughty, Pedestrian Ambassador to the Court of 



Russia. 



,, Hans Dumpe, Translator of Oriental Languages. 



,, Chas. Wilson, Governor of Tantum Quarry on the Gold 



Coast. 



,, J. C. H. Garbers, Imperial German Ambassador. 



,, Edw. Banner, Ranger of the Forests. 



,, Astley, Master of Fox Hounds. 



,, John Stanton, Contractor for Gunpowder. 



,, R. Molineux, Brazier and Tinker General. 



,, Ogden, Poet Laureate. 



„ McLean, Butter Weigher, 



,, Richardson, Window Peeper. 



,, Westmacott, Statuary. 



