We turned first toward the big shuttered house of Mis' Mayor Uppers, to whom, although her husband had been a year ago removed from office, discredited, and had not since been seen in Friendship, we yet gave her old proud title, as if she had been Former Lady mayoress.
"Friendship Village"
Zona Gale
The mace was formerly borne before the mayoress of Southampton when she went out in state.
"England in the Days of Old"
William Andrews
Another quaint item in the Canterbury records under the year 1556 is an order directing the mayor every year before Christmas to provide for the mayoress, his wife, to wear one scarlet gown, and a bonnet of velvet.
"England in the Days of Old"
William Andrews