Excerpt from Ripon Millenary, a Record of the Festival: Also a History of the City, Arranged Under Its Wakemen and Mayors From the Year 1400 Finis. There is yet another gentleman who has contributed materi ally towards the embellishment of the book - mr. John henrv met calfe, of Crayke Castle, Easingwold, whose chapter headings and initial letters exhibit such characteristic work. To him I am also much in debted for the accurate reproductions of the Badges on the Mayor's Baldric. Valuable assistance in procuring the rubbings of these badges was received from Mr. Wm. S. Snow, Jeweller, who most carefully re arranged the baldric in I 889. All the badges have been reduced two-thirds scale for the book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.