Note 244 — Chapter VIII · The Governors of the City
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‘Dinner being concluded, the Lord Mayor and twelve principal citizens of London, as assistants to the Chief Butler of England, accompanied by the King’s cupbearer and assistant, presented to His Majesty wine in a gold cup; and the King having drank thereof, returned the gold cup to the Lord Mayor as his fee.’—L. G. Wickham Legg, English Coronation Records, 1901, p. 361.