Today is Lancashire Day, marking the fact that precisely 713 years ago, the county sent its first representatives to parliament. To mark the occasion, the following proclamation was read out by town criers the length an breadth of the County Palatine:
To the people of the city and county of the Palatine of Lancaster. Greetings!
Know ye that this day, November 27th in the year of our Lord Two Thousand and eight, the 57th year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Duke of Lancaster, is Lancashire Day.
Know ye also, and rejoice, that by virtue of Her Majesty's County Palatine of Lancaster, the citizens of the Hundreds of Lonsdale, North and South of the Sands, Amounderness, Leyland, Blackburn, Salford and West Derby are forever entitled to style themselves Lancastrians.
Throughout the County Palatine, from the Furness Fells to the River Mersey, from the Irish Sea to the Pennines, this day shall ever mark the peoples' pleasure in that excellent distinction - true Lancastrians, proud of the Red Rose and loyal to our Sovereign Duke.
God bless Lancashire and God save the Queen, Duke of Lancaster.
And as a proud and loyal Lancastrian, Amen to that, I say.
2 comments:
Nice to see the good old loyal toast.
In honour of the day, I am making my traditional Christmas cake, from a recipe my late Mother in Law cut out from the Manchester Evening News in 1951.
I lived in Manchester for many years, and worked at Ferranti.
Monty
Once a Lancastrian (even by adoption or residence) always a Lancastrian, Monty!
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