Folio(s) 34-37B. Copy of an extract from the minutes of the Common Council of the...

Folio(s) 34-37B. Copy of an extract from the minutes of the Common Council of the Town of Liverpool [Lancashire] held on 6 July 1796. Persons present Thomas Naylor, Mayor, Spencer Steers and Peter Whitfield Brancker, Bailiffs, the Aldermen and Common Council Men, and John Colquitt, Town Clerk. On the motion of Alderman Case, Chairman of the Board of Trade for Liverpool, and seconded by Alderman Tarleton, Chairman of the African Committee, an extract from the London Gazette dated 28 May 1796 was read. The extract stated that Lord Hawkesbury, president of the Committee of the Privy Council for Trade and Foreign Plantations and chancellor of the Duchy and County Palatine of Lancaster, had been granted the dignity of an Earl and would be known as Earl of Liverpool. It was resolved that this was the first time that Liverpool had appeared amongst the titles of the peerage and that the Earl should be invited to quarter the arms of the corporation with his own. If this was agreeable, then royal consent should be applied for. Signed R Statham, Deputy Town Clerk, Liverpool.

Also copy of a letter of 10 July from Thomas Naylor, Mayor of Liverpool, to the Earl of Liverpool asking whether he was in agreement with the proposals in the enclosed copy of the minutes.

Also letter of 17 July from Owen Salusbury Brereton, Recorder of the Borough of Liverpool, Windsor [Berkshire], stating that the Earl of Liverpool had given his consent to the application.