The Mercers, Grocers, Drapers, Fishmongers, Goldsmiths, Skinners, Merchant Tailors, Haberdashers, Salters, Ironmongers, Vintners, and Clothworkers. All of these companies still possess halls, stowed away mostly in narrow streets within the City limits,... Everybody's Cyclopedia: A Concise and Accurate Compilation of the World's ... - Page 8edited by - 1912Full view - About this book
| Sholto Percy, Reuben Percy - London (England) - 1824 - 388 pages
...of the minor order, such as the Stationer's company, which rival them in real importance. The twelve are, the mercers, grocers, drapers, fishmongers, goldsmiths,...tailors, haberdashers, salters, ironmongers, vintners, and cloth workers. The lord mayor elect must always belong to one of these companies ; if not at the... | |
| Encyclopaedia Americana - 1831 - 610 pages
...subordinate officers are the Chamberlain, town clerk, common sergeant, city remembrancer, sword bearer, &c. The livery of London is the aggregate of the members...of the several city companies, of which there are 91, embracing the various trades of the metropolis. They constitute the elective body, in whom resides... | |
| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1831 - 628 pages
...subordinate officers are the chamberlain, town clerk, common sergeant, city remembrancer, sword bearer, &c. The livery of London is the aggregate of the members...of the several city companies, of which there are 91, embracing the various trades of the metropolis. They constitute the elective body, in whom resides... | |
| Law - 1834 - 576 pages
...sometimes they arc styled in the words of old Stowe, " the twelve Aonotirnhle Companies.*? The twelve are, the Mercers, Grocers, Drapers, Fishmongers, Goldsmiths,...Tailors, Haberdashers, Salters, Ironmongers, Vintners, and Clothworkers h. ip 316, Mad. Firm. Burg, and the authorities there cited. b See Macpherson's "... | |
| George Newenham Wright - Geography - 1837 - 770 pages
...corporation, are the city companies, or incorporated guilds, at present 91 in number ; the principal twelve are the Mercers', Grocers', Drapers', Fishmongers',...Haberdashers', Salters', Ironmongers', Vintners', and Clothworkers', to which belong large revenues, and the patronage of many considerable charities.... | |
| Thomas MacNevin - 1846 - 266 pages
...Ulster— Tables of the Escheated Property — Taking seizin - - 153 CHAPTER VII. How it happened that the Mercers, Grocers, Drapers, Fishmongers, Goldsmiths,...Tailors, Haberdashers, Salters, Ironmongers, Vintners, and Clothworkers of London became Irish Landlords — The Irish Society — The Creation of Baronets... | |
| William Gaspey - London (England) - 1851 - 496 pages
...are styled, par excellence, the great companies, and the following is their order ol precedence : — Mercers, Grocers, Drapers, Fishmongers, Goldsmiths,...Tailors, Haberdashers, Salters, Ironmongers, Vintners, and Clothworkers. The Mercers? Company was incorporated in the seventeenth year of the reign of Richard... | |
| Benjamin Clarke - England - 1852 - 1102 pages
...following twelve are the principal; the chief officers of them are sometimes styled right honourable: — the Mercers, Grocers, Drapers, Fishmongers, Goldsmiths,...Tailors, Haberdashers, Salters, Ironmongers, Vintners, and Clothworkcrs. About fifty of these companies have halls in different parts of London, the most... | |
| Sir John Forbes - Ireland - 1853 - 446 pages
...Company. The twelve great Companies among whom the Ulster property was divided, were the following :— Mercers, Grocers, Drapers, Fishmongers, Goldsmiths,...Haberdashers, Salters, Ironmongers, Vintners, Clothworkers. Four of these Companies (Goldsmiths, Haberdashers, Vintners, Merchant Tailors,) have since sold their... | |
| John Weale - Great Britain - 1854 - 1004 pages
...ninety, twelve of which are called the great companies, and are first in honour and state. These twelve are the Mercers, Grocers, Drapers, Fishmongers, Goldsmiths,...Tailors, Haberdashers, Salters, Ironmongers, Vintners, and Clothworkers. Other considerable companies are the Leathersellers, Saddlers, Carpenters, Weavers,... | |
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