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voured to convince him by straightway ordering 

 the trees and webbs to be broken, and the 

 saddles returned to him to use the leather. 

 Mr. Deykin's counsel being present during the 

 incident, the Company refused to hear him, and 

 no more protest was made. 



The last occasion but one in which the Com- 

 pany took a prominent part in a public pageant 

 was in 1832, in the mayoralty of their distin- 

 guished member. Alderman Sir Peter Laurie. 

 The Order Books relate how in that year they 

 attended Sir Peter to be sworn in as Lord Mayor ; 

 how, after having breakfasted with the Lord Mayor 

 elect, they joined the civic procession 

 Mayoralty of at Guildhall, embarked at the Tower 

 Sir Peter Laurie. ^^ ^ State barge, accompanied by a 



band, and were rowed by 24 oarsmen to West- 

 minster, where, after the ceremony of swearing- 

 in, they re-embarked and landed at Blackfriars. 

 The Company considered the occasion a fitting 

 one to purchase new silk banners and the Royal 

 standard, the Union flag and banners, with the 

 City arms. Company's arms, and the arms of 

 H.R.H. Prince Frederick of Wales, Past Master, 

 then purchased, still remain in the Company's 

 possession. Sir Peter Laurie at the same time 

 presented the Company with a banner of his 

 arms and a long silk streamer, which are similarly 

 preserved. 



This w^as apparently the last occasion in which 

 the Company took part in a pageant or State pro- 



