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29th, at three o'clock in the afternoon; afterwards the old
mayor, mayor-elect, and the rest of the court go and
drink a glass. The old mayorpays a guinea, the mayorelect
ios. 6d., thealdermen 2s. apiece,and the assistants
is. each. What is spent above is paid by the treasurer
out of the CorporationStock.
" Sunday after the last-mentionedday, the new mayor
goes to church withthe old mayor, the formerin a black
and the latter in a scarlet gown, and dinetogether at the
old mayor's. The first Sunday after the new mayor is
sworn-in is a gown day."
The Earlof Sherburn wrote the then Mayors of Leeds
recommending the formation of an association of young
men to learn military exercise, and from this time dates
the volunteer force.
Leeds had not any great share in the events which
followed the invasion of the country by the Young
Pretender. It will be rememberedthat after bringing his
forces in 1745 to Manchester, he marched southas far as
Derby, but withdrewagain to Scotland. This was in the
autumn, but inDecember we learn that some 13,000 of
the Royal force of foot (with twenty pieces of brass
ordnance) were encamped in the "closes" on the west
side of SheepscarLane, being composed of three nationalities
— English, Dutch, and Swiss. The record (the old
parish register) remarks on the subject, " Rebellion is a
plague; when broke out it has no bounds; fury triumphs,
and the devil is the postilion, and knows how and when
to throw his charioteer into asnare." Manyof the unfortunate
victimswhohad been entrappedinto the supportof
Prince Charles were imprisoned in York Castle for a
lengthyperiod. Some, after being there for a year, were
forwarded to Liverpool to be transported, and sixty-one
menand seven women, describedas " Jacobite captives,"
on passing through Leeds, were lodgedfor the night of
April the 23rd, 1747, in the Moot Hall.
The rebellion, however, threw the inhabitants into a
state of great alarm, many of them concealing their
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