The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-21 00:00:00

THE CITY REMEMBRANCERSHIP,

A Committee of the Common Council to whom it was re-
ferred on the 2d July last to inquiry into the nature, duties,
and emoluments of the ancient office of Remembrancer in
the corporation of London, and whether it was susceptible
of amalgamation with advantage either with the office of
City Solicitor or that of Town Clerk, or partly with both,
have just presented a report on the subject. The inquiry
arose on the retirement, from advanced age and failing
health, of Mr. E. Tyrrell, who had spent upwards of 60
years of his life in the service of the corporation, and who
had at one time thought the amalgamation of the office with
some other in the corporation practicable. He was in the
receipt of a salary of £l,OOO, besides professional charges
he was allowed to make for business done by him, and
which on an average of the last ten years raised his net
income to £2,020, in addition to an allowance of £250
a year for office expenses. The office of Remembrancer
has existed during nearly 300 years, having been instituted
in 1570. Its first holder appears to have been one Thomas
Norton, on whose death, in 1588, Queen Elizabeth deigned
to address an autograph letter to the Court of Common
Council recommending as his successor " our well-be-
loved Dr. Fletcher, distinguished for his learning, inte•
grity, and other commendable parts." With such a cer-
was
tificate of character, it is presumed the worthy doctor
appointed to the vacant berth. Originally the l
emoluments
could not have been at all equal to their amount in ate
years, seeing that her then Majesty charged the Common
Council to award the successor of Mr. Norton " decent
maintenance." The Parliamentary duties, so called, of the
Remembrancer are said to require a daily attendance at the
House of Commons, and a point is made that he has from
time immemorial enjoyed the privilege of a seat under the
gallery of the House of Commons. Ere is there
the city to keep watch
and ward over the interests and privileges of , ,
as his official designation imports, to keep the Common
Council applised from time to time of all measures in any
way affecting the rights of the corporation—in other words,
to see that they are not caught napping, for the civic autho-
rities always appear to fancy that " every man's hand is
against them." For years past they have had a standing
committee whose special function has been to watch and
resist all attempts at reform in the corporation when these
have been in contemplation by the Government of the day,
and among this most conservative body for that purpose
are men holding liberal opinions on most other political
subjects. The Committee on the Remembrancersbip, after
an elaborate recital of the duties incident to it, ceremonial
and Parliamentary, recommend that the office should be
continued as a distinct and separate one, having regard to
the interests of the corporation, and that the income at-
tached to it should be no longer fluctuating, but fixed at
£1,500 a year, with an annual allowance besides, not ex
3t
ending £4OO, for office expenses. The committee pay ai -
compliment to Mr. Tyrrell, the retiring Remembraneeri to
the effect that he has at all times well and faithfully a
over
charged the trust reposed in him, and in recognition of his
di
services in the business of the corporationextendingl
half a century, they recommend that he be
allowed a pen-
sion of £7OO from the date of his retirement. The salary of
£1,600 which has been recommended is equal to that of an
-Under-Secretary of State, and the committee say they have
fixed it at that amount after havingcarefully considered
the, position which the gentleman appointed to the post
must necessarily occupy, and the important and peculiar
duties he will be called upon to discharge, and with the de-
sire to see the corporation fitly represented in their commu-
nications with the Crown and the Government of the
country.

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