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tinues. To this church the parish of
St. Peter Cheap is united.
MAUDLIN'S rents, Nightingale lane, East
Smithfield.
MAUL'S court, Fore street, Cripplegate.
MAXHAM'S court, Long alley.
MAXIMUS court, Moorfields.
MAXIN'S court, Moorfields.
MAY FAIR, near Hyde Park; so called
from a fair annually held there in the
month of May.
MAY FAIR street, near Hyde Park.
MAYFIELD'S buildings, near Rag Fair.
Lord MAYOR. The chief magistrate of
this metropolis was, before the Norman
conquest, called the Portreve, or Port-
grave, which title in the reign of Henry II.
was changed for that of Mayor, a name
by which the chief magistrate of the city
of Roan, the capital of Normandy, was
then distinguished. In 1215 the citi-
zens obtained from King John a charter
which granted them the privilege of chu-
sing this magistrate, which was afterwards
confirmed by several other royal grants;
and the Mayors were elected by the court
of Aldermen, and a number of Commons
summoned by them, out of each of the
wards; but the number thus summoned
being occasionally varied at the discretion
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of the Aldermen, gave great uneasiness to
the commonalty, for the removing of
which the method of election was altered
by an act of Common Council in the
year 1476, and the present manner of
electing by the Livery of the several com-
panies was established: by virtue of which
the Lord Mayor is annually chosen on
Michaelmas day.
For this purpose the Livery-men on
that day assemble in Guildhall, where,
by holding up of hands, they usually
chuse two of the senior Aldermen below
the chair, who being returned to the court
of Lord Mayor and Aldermen, the senior
is generally declared Lord Mayor elect.
Some time after, the Lord Mayor elect,
accompanied by the Recorder and several
of the Aldermen, is presented to the Lord
Chancellor, as his Majesty's representative,
for his approbation, without which the
person elected has no legal authority to
perform the office: but this being obtain-
ed, he is on the eighth of November sworn
into his office at Guildhall, and the fol-
lowing day before the Barons of the Ex-
chequer at Westminster.
The ninth of November being the day
on which the Lord Mayor elect enters
upon his office, the Aldermen and Sheriffs
attend him to Guildhall in their coaches,
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