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 | | The Livery Companies originally developed as guild s and were responsible for the regulation of their trades, controlling, for instance, wages and labour conditions. |
 | | Some Livery Companies (for example, the Worshipful Company of Scriveners) continue to have a regulatory role today, and some (for example, the Longbow Stringmakers) have become inoperative. |
 | | Among the earliest companies known to have possessed halls were the Merchant Taylors and Goldsmiths in the 14th century, but neither theirs nor other companies' original halls remain; the few survivors of the Great Fire of London were destroyed, along with many reconstructed ones, during the Blitz. |
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