LANCASHIRE
My postal address is:
Radcliffe, Manchester
but
I live in Radcliffe, Lancashire
In 1295 on the 27th November, Lancashire's first two representatives were summoned to Parliament by King Edward 1.
Toast your heritage on Lancashire Day,
the 27 November.
I shall.
Here is the Toast:
To: The People of the City and County Palatine of Lancaster
GREETINGS
Know he that this day, November 27th in the year of our Lord Two Thousand
and Six, In the 55th year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth 11,
Duke of Lancaster - is Lancashire Day.
Know ye also, and rejoice, that by virtue of her Majesty's County Palatine
of Lancaster, the citizens of the Hundreds of Lonsdale, North and South of
the Sands, Amounderness, Leyland, Blackburn, Salford and West Derby, are
forever entitled to style themselves Lancastrians.
Throughout the County Palatine, from the Furness fells to the River Mersey,
from the Irish Sea Coast to the Pennines this day shall ever mark the
people's pleasure in that excellent distinction - true Lancastrians, proud
of the Red Rose and loyal to our Sovereign Duke.
God Bless Lancashire and God Save the Queen, Duke of Lancaster.
Courtesy of Eilleen Ovenden (Australia)
