280 Lancafoire. 
neighbouring counties.. At the head of the 
manufacturers were J. Horrocks, efg. M. P. 
and j. Watfon, efg. arm in arm, (the two 
principal and indeed rival cotton manufaétu- 
rers of the county), carrying white wands in 
their hands! upwards of one hundred work- 
men and mechanics foliowcd, two and two. 
They paraded through all the principal ftreets 
of the town, attended by bands of mufic and 
fiags, with various emblematical devices, &c. 
&c. and then proceeded to the paifh church, 
In the courfe of the proceflion, came Nicho- 
Jas Grimihaw, efg. the mayor, with his 
maces, the recorder, bailiffs, aldermen, com- 
mon-council-men, falbert-men and other 
corporation officers, town cryer, beadle, &e 
as likewife all the different companies or in- 
corporated bodies, headed by their wardens, 
with ftaves of office, in their ftate dreffes, and 
with the ufual infignia; alfo one of the 
lodges of free-mafons, in their appropriate 
decorations. The excellent band of the 17th 
regiment of light dregoons, preceded the cor- 
porate body, all in full drefs, and their of- 
ficers in new cioaths of office. The com- 
pany of butchers, in uniform and chara¢teriftic 
drefies, and thofe of tanners, fkinners and 
glovers, habited in like manner, clofed the 
whole. The other companies were the 
woolcombers, fpinners and weavers cpmpany, 
the cordwainers company, the carpenters 
company, the vintners company, the taylors* 
* This company was attended by a man 
and woman decorated with fig-leaves, an em- 
blem of the very high antiquity of their bu- 
finefs. The Eve, though feleéted- from 
among the fair Lancahire witches (and 
never, fay the Lancafhire-papers, did they 
look more bewitching than on this occafion), 
did not it feems, refemble the Eveof Milton, 
of whom it is faid: 
Grace was in all her fteps, heaven in her eye. 
In every gefture dignity and love. 
The butchers company were about forty in 
number. They had, all, new white aprons 
and &cels hung tothem; and twelve of their 
fons walked in the proceffion, drefled in a fi- 
milar manner.—All of them had white and 
red ribbons in their hats. The farriers,com- 
pany was led bya man, completely accoutred 
in fteel armour, elegantly ornamented, his 
armour-Cap was decorated with a fine piume of 
feathers; his horfe hada fcarlet faddle-cloth, 
Crramented with gold-iace, which gave him 
a flately and grand appeirance, This perfon- 
age repreiented Vulcan. He was followed 
by eight boys, with their hair powdered, 
without coats or waiftcoats, their fhirts orna- 
mented with biue ribbons; they carried white 
say in their hands; wigh gilt ead, The 
farriers followed with new b'ue jack ets and 
trowfers, the jackets had red collars, they 
wore red cats with taficis at the top, and fur 
frents 3 they had-on new leather aprons, with 
pincers and hammets “hanging in the fronts, 
[O@ober I, 
company, the fmiths company, (joined by the 
plumbers, painters, glaziers and watch- 
makers) and the mercers and drapers com— 
pany. Each company was attended by a 
band of mofic and avery elegant enfign. After 
divine fervice the procefiion paraded the 
ftreets, in the fame order as they had gone 
to the church, and then broke up at the 
Guildhall, where they had firft affembled, 
about nine o’clock in the morning. Two 
very ftriking emblemsatical devices occurred 
in the proceflion, one was a machine, or fort 
of tage, with a {pinning jenny on it, worked 
by a boy, charatteriftically habited, and drawn 
by fourceen men, uniformly and neatly drefled 
in callico fhirts. The other was a fimilar 
machine, with a loom drawn on a fledge, at 
which was a girl, working with bobbins; 
this was alfo drawn by fourteen men drefied 
in auniform likethe others. After the pro» 
ceffion, Mr. Grimfhaw, the Mayor, entertain- 
ed the gentlemen with a fumptuous din- 
ner at his houfe, in Winkley- -place—The 
Mayorefs, likewife, entertained the ladies on 
the following day, 
On Tuefday was the jadiés proceffion. A 
numerous body of gentlemen, holding white 
rods in their hands, walked before and filed 
oft, making a lines on each fide of the ftreet, 
through waich the ladies were te pafs. The 
girls from the cotton manufaétery, led the 
van, as before, afterwards came the ladies, 
two and two. The Rev. Mr. Shuttleworth, 
reGor, and Mrs. Grimfhaw, the May- 
orefs and Queen of the Guild, walked firft ; 
after them came the Counters of Derby ve 
Lady Charlotte Hornby; LadyStanley, daugh- 
ter of Lord Derby, and Lady-Anne Lindfay ; 
Lady Sufan Carpenter and the Hon. Mrs. 
Cawthorne; Lady Gerard and Lady Hough- 
ton; Lady Jerninghaas and Lady Fitzgerald, 
Several other baronets ladies and the reft of 
the other ladies followed, walking in pairs 5 
in all near four hundred in number, confift- 
ing of the moft diftinguifhed Jagies in this 
and the other neighbouring counties. They 
were all fuperbly dreffed and adorned with a 
profufion of the richeft jewels, Each of thena 
wore an elegant, fafhionable plume of fea- 
thers branching from the coeffure. This 
pait of the fpeétacle (efpecially the firft coup- 
dou] when the ladies had ali got out of the 
town-hall into the ftreet) comprehending 
The tanners company were green ribbands in 
their hats, and oak-leaves 5 moft of them 
were dreffed in bite coats. The cordwainers 
company, to the number of about forty, wore 
red morocco aprons, bound with new, light- 
blue ribbands. They had fafhes over their 
shoulders, with an appropriate infcription. 
They were foliowed by a number of appren- 
tices, carrying, on long poles, all the differeng 
fafhions of ladies and gentlemens fhoes, &c. 
é&c. Of the Freemafon’s lodge, Peace and 
Unity, No 565. about fifty, only, were in 
the proceilion, > 
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