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| | Livery Company Article, LiveryCompany Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) |
 | | Livery Companies are governed by a Master (known in some Companies as the Prime Warden), a number of Wardens (who may be knownas the Upper, Middle, Lower, or Renter Wardens), and a Court of Assistants, which elects the Master and Wardens. |
 | | The chiefexecutive officer of the Company is known as the Clerk. |
 | | One may become a freeman, or acquire the "Freedom of theCompany", upon fulfilling the Company's criteria; traditionally, one may be admitted by "patrimony" if either parent was aliverymen of the company, by "servitude" if one has served as an apprentice in the trade for the requisite number of years, or bypurchase. |
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