"Mayoress" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... soon as it was known that the Elector would attend, and a pageant, entitled Troja nova triumphans, was written expressly for the occasion by Thomas Dekker.(178) The Elector afterwards attended the banquet, and paid a special compliment to the lady mayoress and her suite.(179) The number of nobles invited was so great that there was scarcely room for the customary representatives from the principal livery companies, and none at all for members of the lesser companies. The latter were asked to take their ...
— London and the Kingdom - Volume II • Reginald R. Sharpe
... Mayoress of Kensington, Alderman and Mrs. W. H. Davison, held a reception at the Kensington Town trail last evening, their guests numbering between 400 ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 15, 1914 • Various
... a week had passed over, but on a sudden comes Mrs. Mayoress and her two daughters to the house to see my old nurse, and to see her school and the children. When they had looked about them a little, 'Well, Mrs. ——,' says the Mayoress to my nurse, 'and pray which is the little lass that ...
— The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders &c. • Daniel Defoe |
