LORD 

MAYOR'S DAY, in England, the 9th of November, the date of the inauguration of the lord mayor of London (see Vol . XVI., p . 966), marked by a pageant known as the Lord Mayor's Show . The first of these pageants was held in 1215 . The idea originated in the stipulation made in a charter then granted by John that the citizen chosen to be mayor should be presented to the king or his justice for approval . The crowd of citizens who accompanied the mayor on horse-back to Westminster developed into a yearly pageant, which each season became more elaborate . Until the 15th century the mayor either rode or walked to Westminster, but in 1453 Sir John Norman appears to have set a fashion of going by water . From 1639 to 1655 the show disappeared owing to Puritan opposition . With the Restoration the city pageant was revived, but interregnums occurred during the years of the plague and fire, and in 1683 when a quarrel broke out between Charles and the city, ending in the temporary abrogation of the charter . In 1711 an untoward accident befell the show, the mayor Sir Gilbert Heathcote (the original of Addison's Sir Andrew Freeport) being thrown by his horse . The next year a coach was, in consequence, provided for the chief magistrate . In 1757 this was superseded by a gilded and elaborately decorated equipage costing £Io,o65 which was used till 1896, when a replica of it was built to replace it .