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		Published by authority of the Court of Assistants [of the Worshipful Company of Pewterers], 1978.
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	Worshipful Company of Girdlers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Worshipful Company of Girdlers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London.
		The organisation was awarded the right to regulate Girdlers in 1327; it was granted a Royal Charter in 1449.
		The Girdlers, or makers of belts and girdles, are no longer closely related to their original trade.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Worshipful_Company_of_Girdlers (145 words)

	Livery Company
		Livery Companies are governed by a Master (known in some Companies as the Prime Warden), a number of Wardens (who may be known as the Upper, Middle, Lower, or Renter Wardens), and a Court of Assistants, which elects the Master and Wardens.
		One may become a freeman, or acquire the "Freedom of the Company", upon fulfilling the Company's criteria; traditionally, one may be admitted by "patrimony" if either parent was a liverymen of the company, by "servitude" if one has served as an apprentice in the trade for the requisite number of years, or by purchase.
		The Company of Parish Clerks\nThe Company* of Watermen and Lightermen
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	Encyclopedia: Worshipful Company of Cordwainers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Worshipful Company of Glovers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London.
		Cordwainers - The Worshipful Company - one of the ancient City of London Livery Companies was formally founded in 1272 and has since that time been dedicated to the support of education and training in the design and production of footwear and associated leather accessories and the promotion of the footwear industry.
		In common with other City of London Livery Companies, the Cordwainers Company was, in the early and middle ages, responsible for the governance and quality control of its trade in the City of London.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Worshipful-Company-of-Cordwainers (567 words)

	Worshipful Company of Cordwainers - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The Worshipful Company of Cordwainers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London.
		The Cordwainers were workers in fine leather; the Company gets its name from "cordwain", the white leather produced from goatskin in Cordoba, Spain.
		The status of the company as a trade association has lessened over the years; the Company is now, as are most other Livery Companies, a charitable body.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Worshipful_Company_of_Cordwainers (194 words)

	Tianjin bei eLexi - das Onlinelexikon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Worshipful Company of Joiners and Ceilers is one of the Livery Companies in the City of London.
		The Worshipful Company of Armourers and Brasiers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London.
		The Worshipful Company of Saddlers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London.
	www.elexi.de /en/t/ti/tianjin.html (1082 words)

	Origin of the Girdler Name
		In this case, the name was from the actual occupation of "Girdler" who was a maker of "Girdles", with the term girdle being descriptive of a belt worn round the waist or hips to secure or confine the garments.
		This craft company dates back into Anglo-Saxon times and the first recorded Master of the Girdler's Company was "Ralphe De la Barre" year 1180, the second was "Gerard the Girdler".
		Please observe that the art of the girdler did not stop with a plain and simple belt, but it was in the "harnessing" and "garnishing" of the girdle that the skill of the artizan was shown.
	www.girdler.com /origin.htm (1274 words)

	Worshipful Company of Tin Plate Workers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Worshipful Company of Tin Plate Workers alias Wire Workers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London.
		Tin craftsmen were originally part of the Ironmongers' Company, while the wire workers, who made wire objects such as cages, animal traps and fishhooks, were part of the Girdlers' Company.
		Thus, the Company is no longer a trade association for craftsmen.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wire_Workers (189 words)

	Cordwainers - The Worshipful Company
		The Worshipful Company Cordwainers, one of the City of London Livery Companies.
		Cordwainers - The Worshipful Company - one of the ancient City of London Livery Companies was formally founded in 1272 and has since that time been dedicated to the support of education and training in the design and production of footwear and associated leather accessories and the promotion of the footwear industry.
		As a founder member of the at City and Guilds of London Institute in 1878, the Company is represented on the Council of that Institute, and also the Council of City University where it presents prizes and a bursary annually to students in the Music Department.
	www.cordwainers.org /index.html (486 words)

	Encyclopedia: Worshipful Company of Girdlers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A Royal Charter is a charter given by a monarch to legitimize an incorporated body, such as a city, company, university or such.
		Before dealing with later phases of the carpet industry in England, mention may now be made of Spanish carpets, of European as distinct from Saracenic or Persian Spanish ~ design; the making of them dates at least from the end of the 15th century or the beginning of the 16th century.
		II, July 1904; article on the pile carpet belonging to the Worshipful Company of Girdlers of the City of London, by A. Kendrick, with a color-plate of this remarkable carpet, made to the order of the master of the company in 1634 at Lahore.
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	Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Makers: Livery Companies of London (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Until 1835 membership of a Company was the only avenue to the Freedom, or full citizenship, of the City of London.
		When in that year the Common Council decided that the intervention of a Company should no longer be necessary, fears were expressed that the end of these ancient corporate bodies was in sight.
		That this fear was groundless is seen in the great increase during the last century in the number of those entitled to wear the livery, or clothing, of their respective companies.
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	Livery Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Worshipful Company of Barbers (Barbers, Surgeons, and Dentists)
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		The Worshipful Company of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators
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	Financial History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		After considerable negotiation the City Companies collectively agreed to subscribe a sum of £20,000, in consideration for which they were to be given control of the lands in the districts of Coleraine and Derry, with a view to colonising these lands with English Protestants and quelling the rebellions, which were so frequently troubling the Government.
		Freshfield was instructed to protect the interests of the Company, but there is no further record relating to the matter, and one can only assume that the Upholders' Company were able to establish that they had in fact relinquished their interest in the land.
		the Company's silver-gilt salt cellar was borrowed by the Victoria and Albert Museum for exhibition purposes, whilst in 1928 and 1929 it was borrowed for exhibition at Lansdowne House and Seaford House.
	fp.baytreesorg.f9.co.uk /finhist.htm (8082 words)

	The Worshipful Company of Saddlers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		There are also another twenty or more companies to whom the Saddlers offer hospitality each year and who, in their turn, invite the Saddlers to their Halls.
		This unity of interest, and action has enabled significant progress to be made in a number of areas, and this has been to the mutual benefit of the Companies and the leather trade as a whole.
		Finally, the smallest grouping is that of the three livery companies which share a common interest in the horse, the Saddlers, the Farriers and the Loriners.
	www.saddlerscompany.com /sadcom5.html (158 words)

	Society Fresh : Article 'Worshipful Company of Tobacco Pipe Makers and Tobacco Blenders' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Worshipful Company of Tobacco Pipe Makers and Tobacco Blenders is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London.
		The Company, which was responsible for regulating the trade of tobacconists, was restored in 1663, but went bankrupt in 1868, after its powers of regulation were abolished.
		The Company, however, is not, as it previously was, a trade association for pipe makers and tobacco blenders.
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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Worshipful Company of Girdlers
		The Worshipful Company of Girdlers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London.
		The organisation was awarded the right to regulate Girdlers in 1327; it was granted a Royal Charter in 1449.
		The Girdlers, or makers of belts and girdles, are no longer closely related to their original trade.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Worshipful_Company_of_Girdlers (147 words)

	► Worshipful Company of Wax Chandlers: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Worshipful Company of Wax Chandlers is one of the Livery Companies (Livery Companies: livery companies are trade associations based in the city of london....
		The Wax Chandlers, or wax-candle makers, were traditionally separate from Tallow Chandlers (Tallow Chandlers: the worshipful company of tallow chandlers is one of the livery companies of the city of...
		The Wax Chandlers' Company ranks twentieth in the order of precedence (order of precedence: an order of precedence is a sequential hierarchy of nominal importance of people; it is used...
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	Worshipful Company of Girdlers Information
		The Worshipful Company of Girdlers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London.
		The organisation was awarded the right to regulate Girdlers in 1327; it was granted a Royal Charter in 1449.
		The Girdlers, or makers of belts and girdles, are no longer closely related to their original trade.
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	Tin Plate Workers Home
		Wireworking as a craft was in existence in the reign of Henry VI, when the craftsmen in London were members of the Girdlers Company.
		The two groups of craftsmen decided to amalgamate together to form a trade guild for the management and regulation of their trades, and in due time the company was granted a Royal Charter on 29th December 1670 in the reign of Charles II under the title of:
		The By-laws were approved by the courts of the Chancery and King's Bench in 1678 and the Company received its Livery in 1766.
	www.tinplateworkers.co.uk /history.html (467 words)

	Worshipful Company of Girdlers - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Worshipful Company of Girdlers - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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	The Worshipful Company of Woolmen
		The livery companies probably had their origins in this country before 1066 and are similar to the fraternities and guilds (or mysteries) that flourished throughout Europe for many centuries.
		Funerals were particularly important occasions, attended by all members of the company, when the coffin would be covered by fine cloths, a few of which are preserved to this day.
		In medieval times "livery" was the term used for the clothing, food and drink provided to the officers and retainers of great households, such as those of barons, bishops, colleges or guilds.
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	Girdles and More: Re: Worshipful Company, Geoffrey at 12/29/2002 19:43 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		As an answer to: Worshipful Company written by Drew at 26 Dec 2002 08:06:04:
		>One such Guild is the Worshipful Company of Girdlers.
		GIRDLERS - ARE PEOPLE WHO MAKE belts / sashes - nothing to do with CORSETRY AT ALL - Us Corsetiers (only add the e if you wish to establish the feminine) have our own guild that of Corset makers
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		The Worshipful Company of Girdlers is an ancient English craft guild that traditionally supplies the girdles, belts and associated metalware worn by monarchs at their coronation.
		The Worshipful Company of Girdlers was formally recognised by Edward III in 1327.
		It now occupies its third Girdlers’ Hall — the first burned down in the Great Fire of London in 1666, the second lasted until it was bombed in 1940.
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	Cordwainers - The Worshipful Company
		The Latin word for this kind of leather is ‘aluta’ and workers were called ‘alutarii’, a term found in the Cordwainers Company’s first Charter of 1439.
		Initially all craftsmen working with fine leather were called ‘cordwainers’ and this included shoewrights, girdlers (beltmakers), pouchmakers, pursers, malemakers (leather trunk makers), botteliers (leather bottle makers) and glovers as well as those who prepared the leather, whitetawyers, curriers, tanners and dyers.
		The Company is also a member of the Livery Companies’ Vocational Educational Group (LOGVEC) which encourages support for colleges and schools throughout the London area and in the widest sense.
	www.cordwainers.org (486 words)

	The Worshipful Company of Paviors - Links to Other Livery Companies
		Trade and craft associations known as guilds or livery companies have flourished all over Europe for centuries, but the City of London companies, now collectively known as the Livery, are unique in their survival, number and diversity.
		Today's livery companies are not picturesque leftovers of history but living institutions, whose liverymen carry out important functions in the elections of the government of the City of London and certain of its officers.
		Several companies - such as the Goldsmiths Company, which has been responsible since 1300 for testing the purity of marking gold and silver wares - still have a continuing statutory or regulatory role, while others support related industries in a variety of ways.
	www.paviors.org.uk /linksToOtherLiveryCompanies.aspx (653 words)

	The Worshipful Company of Coachmakers and Coach Harness Makers of London - MIDSUMMER COURT AND DINNER FOR HONOURED ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Livery Companies adapted to the new circumstances and, although the old power base and responsibilities disappeared, alternative ways were found to contribute to the support of trade and industry and to breath new life into the concept and the traditions.
		Today, Livery Companies thrive, and there are now over 100 in the City and the Coachmakers have close contacts with a large number of them.
		Additionally, as the company responsible for initiating and managing the annual inter Livery Golf Competition (The Prince Arthur Cup belongs to the Coachmakers) we are pivotal to one of the City’s most popular and keenly contested annual sporting events.
	www.siteset.co.uk /coachmakers2/extra715.html (436 words)

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