On this day in 1295 the first elected representatives from Lancashire were called to Westminster by King Edward I to attend what later became known as “The Model Parliament”.
The Lancashire Day proclamation is read out by town criers throughout the county on 27th November:
Know ye that this day, November 27th in the year of our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty Five, the 3rd year of the reign of His Majesty King Charles III, Duke of Lancaster, is
Know ye also, and rejoice, that by virtue of His 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 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.
