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GHAPTIER ELI
THE CITY GOVERNMENT
The Corporation—Its History—The Lord Mayor—The Roman Theory not proven—The Portreeves
— The SheriffsS—The Chamberlain—The Common Council—The Aldermen—The Livery—The
Guildhall—The Mansion House—Newgate.
THE Corporation of London is always before the public; we share the
reverence which foreigners are said to feel for the Lord Mayor; and
there are few dwellers in the greater London of the suburbs who have
not at some time or other seen a civic procession, enjoyed civic
hospitality, or admired the buildings in which the civic government
is carried on. We know, moreover, if we study the history of our
country, that in days gone by the constitution of the city of London
was held up as a pattern for imitation in other cities; and that ona
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