livery company

It is also the official church of eleven City livery companies.

These may show people undertaking such work or the arms of the appropriate London livery company.

There are over one hundred livery companies in London.

Two or three drivers from the Bronx livery company where he works are robbed every month.

It also houses the records of most of the city livery companies.

In 1559, it became the 47th livery company.

Early guilds and livery companies were also often involved in the regulation of trade among themselves.

It also supports general charities, as do other Livery Companies.

The right of election was held by members of the Livery Companies.

This is closely tied to the role and status of the Livery Companies.

It wasn't apportioned to any of the London livery companies, being kept as church lands.

The City livery companies competed as to the luxury of their state barges.

The new cabs would carry the livery company's name on the outside, along with fare schedules.

It ranks 84th in the order of precedence for the Livery Companies.

The Company ranks 106th in the order of precedence for the City livery companies.

The Livery Companies also ensured that they had jurisdiction over the area.

There are now 108 livery companies, some very new, so the Order of Precedence is sometimes reviewed.

In an average year they might give away £7m, about one-sixth of the total charitable contributions for the 108 livery companies.

A member of a livery company can sign-up his son as his apprentice.

The Guild is run along the same lines as a Livery Company.

Instead, the Company is now, as are most Livery Companies, a charitable foundation.

He served the latter livery company as Prime Warden from 1992-93.

The livery companies, meanwhile, are in no way secretive

How do you join a livery company?

Like many other Livery Companies, it has a long tradition of maintaining almshouses.