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¶The Twelve Great Livery Companies
The Twelve Great Livery Companies of the City of London are listed here in the order of precedence established in 1515. To serve as Lord Mayor, an Alderman had to be free (i.e., a member) of one
of these twelve companies.
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The Mercers’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Mercers
The Mercers’ Company was one of the twelve great companies of London. The Mercers were first in the order of precedence established in 1515. The Worshipful Company of Mercers is still active and maintains a website at http://www.mercers.co.uk/ that includes a history and bibliography.![The coat of arms of the Mercers’ Company, from Stow (1633).[Full size
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The Grocers’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Grocers
The Grocers’ Company (previously the Pepperers’ Company) was one of the twelve great companies of London. The Grocers were second in the order of precedence established in 1515. The Worshipful Company of Grocers is still active and maintains a website at http://www.grocershall.co.uk/, including a brief history.![The coat of arms of the Grocers’ Company, from Stow (1633). [Full size
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The Drapers’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Drapers
The Drapers’ Company was one of the twelve great companies of London. The Drapers were third in the order of precedence established in 1515. The Worshipful Company of Drapers is still active and maintains a website at http://www.thedrapers.co.uk/, with a history and short bibliography.![The coat of arms of the Drapers’ Company, from Stow (1633). [Full size
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The Fishmongers’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Fishmongers
The Fishmongers’ Company was one of the twelve great companies of London. The Fishmongers were fourth in the order of precedence established in 1515. The Company was originally two companies, the Stock-fishmongers and the Salt-fishmongers (or simply Fishmongers). They were united in 1536 under the designation ofThe Wardens and Commonalty of the Mystery of Fishmongers of the City of London
(Herbert 4) The Worshipful Company of Fishmongers is still active and maintains a website at http://www.fishhall.org.uk/, including a section on their history and heritage.![The coat of arms of the Fishmongers’ Company, from Stow (1633). [Full size
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Goldsmiths’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths
The Goldsmiths’ Company was one of the twelve great companies of London. The Goldsmiths were fifth in the order of precedence established in 1515. The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths is still active and maintains a website at http://www.thegoldsmiths.co.uk/, with a useful overview of their history and role in the annual Trial of the Pyx.![The coat of arms of the Goldsmiths’ Company, from Stow (1633). [Full size
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The Skinners’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Skinners
The Skinners’ Company was one of the twelve great companies of London. Since 1484, the Skinners and the Merchant Taylors have alternated precedence annually; the Skinners are now sixth in precedence in even years and seventh in odd years, changing precedence at Easter. The Worshipful Company of Skinners is still active and maintains a website at http://www.theskinnerscompany.org.uk/ that includes a history.![The coat of arms of the Skinners’ Company, from Stow (1633). [Full size
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The Merchant Taylors’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors
The Merchant Taylors’ Company was one of the twelve great companies of London. Since 1484, the Merchant Taylors and the Skinners have alternated precedence annually; the Merchant Taylors are now sixth in precedence in odd years and seventh in even years, changing precedence at Easter. The Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors is still active and maintains a website at http://www.merchanttaylors.co.uk/ that includes downloadable information about the origins and historical milestones of the company.![The coat of arms of the Merchant Taylors’ Company, from Stow (1633). [Full size
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The Haberdashers’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Haberdashers
The Haberdashers’ Company was one of the twelve great companies of London. The Haberdashers were eighth in the order of precedence established in 1515. The Worshipful Company of Haberdashers is still active and maintains a website at http://www.haberdashers.co.uk/ that includes a history of the company and of their hall.![The coat of arms of the Haberdashers’ Company, from Stow (1633). [Full size
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The Salters’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Salters
The Salters’ Company was one of the twelve great companies of London. The Salters were ninth in the order of precedence established in 1515. The Worshipful Company of Salters is still active and maintains a website at http://www.salters.co.uk/ that includes information on the history of the company.![The coat of arms of the Salters’ Company, from Stow (1633). [Full size
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The Ironmongers’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Ironmongers
The Ironmongers’ Company was one of the twelve great companies of London. The Ironmongers were tenth in the order of precedence established in 1515. The Worshipful Company of Ironmongers is still active and maintains a website at http://www.ironmongers.org/ that includes a page on their history.![The coat of arms of the Ironmongers’ Company, from Stow (1633). [Full size
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The Vintners’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Vintners
The Vintners’ Company was one of the twelve great companies of London. The Vintners were eleventh in the order of precedence established in 1515. The Worshipful Company of Vintners is still active and maintains a website at http://www.vintnershall.co.uk/ that includes information on the origins and development of the company.![The coat of arms of the Vintners’ Company, from Stow (1633). [Full size
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The Clothworkers’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Clothworkers
The Clothworkers’ Company was one of the twelve great companies of London, formed in 1528 out of the merger of the Fullers and the Shearmen. The Clothworkers were twelfth in the order of precedence. The Worshipful Company of Clothworkers is still active and maintains a website at http://www.clothworkers.co.uk/ with information about its history.![The coat of arms of the Clothworkers’ Company, from Stow (1633). [Full size
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The coat of arms of the Clothworkers’ Company, from Stow (1633). [Full size image]
¶Lesser Companies Mentioned in MoEML
For a complete list of companies still active in London, see The Livery Companies Database.
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The Apothecaries’ Company
The Worshipful Society of Apothecaries
The Apothecaries’ Company was one of the lesser livery companies of London. The Worshipful Society of Apothecaries is still active and maintains a website at http://www.apothecaries.org/ that includes a history of the company. -
The Armourers and Brasiers’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Armourers and Brasiers
The Worshipful Company of Armourers and Brasiers was one of the lesser livery companies of London. The Armourers and Brasiers’ Company is still active and maintains a website at https://www.armourershall.co.uk/ that includes a history of the company. -
The Bakers’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Bakers
The Bakers’ Company was one of the lesser livery companies of London. The Worshipful Company of Bakers is still active and maintains a website at http://www.bakers.co.uk// that includes a history of the company. -
Barbers’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Barbers
The Barbers’ Company was one of the lesser livery companies of London. The Worshipful Company of Barbers is still active and maintains a website at http://barberscompany.org/ that includes a history of the company. -
Bowyers’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Bowyers
The Bowyers’ Company was one of the lesser livery companies of London. The Worshipful Company of Bowyers is still active and maintains a website at http://www.bowyers.com/ that includes a history of the company. -
The Brewers’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Brewers
The Brewers’ Company was one of the lesser livery companies of London. The Worshipful Company of Brewers is still active and maintains a website at http://www.brewershall.co.uk/ that includes a history of the company. -
The Butchers’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Butchers
The Butchers’ Company was one of the lesser livery companies of London. The Worshipful Company of Butchers is still active and maintains a website at http://www.butchershall.com/ that includes a history of the company. -
The Carpenters’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Carpenters
The Carpenters’ Company was one of the lesser livery companies of London. The Worshipful Company of Carpenters is still active and maintains a website at http://www.thecarpenterscompany.co.uk that includes a history of the company. -
Cooks’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Cooks
The Cooks’ Company was one of the lesser livery companies of London. -
Coopers’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Coopers
The Coopers’ Company was one of the lesser livery companies of London. The Worshipful Company of Coopers is still active and maintains a website at https://upholders.co.uk/ that includes a history of the company. -
The Cordwainers’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Cordwainers
The Cordwainers’ Company was one of the lesser livery companies of London. The Worshipful Company of Cordwainers is still active and maintains a website at http://cordwainers.org/ that includes a history of the company. -
The Curriers’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Curriers
The Curriers’ Company was one of the lesser livery companies of London. The Worshipful Company of Cordwainers is still active and maintains a website at https://www.curriers.co.uk/ that includes a history of the company. -
The Cutlers’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Cutlers
The Cutlers’ Company was one of the lesser livery companies of London. The Worshipful Company of Cutlers is still active and maintains a website at http://www.cutlerslondon.co.uk/ that includes a history of the company. -
The Dyers’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Dyers
The Dyers’ Company was one of the lesser livery companies of London. The Worshipful Company of Dyers is still active and maintains a website at http://www.dyerscompany.com/ that includes a history of the company. -
The Founders’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Founders
The Founders’ Company was one of the lesser livery companies of London. The Worshipful Company of Founders is still active and maintains a website at http://www.foundersco.org.uk/ that includes a history written by A. J. Gillett (The Clerk). -
The Fletchers’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Fletchers
The Fletchers’ Company was one of the lesser livery companies of London. The Worshipful Company of Fletchers is still active and maintains a website at http://www.fletchers.org.uk/ that includes a history of the company. -
The Fruiterers’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Fruiterers
The Fruiterers’ Company was one of the lesser livery companies of London. The Worshipful Company of Fruiterers is still active and maintains a website at http://www.fruiterers.org.uk/ that includes a history of the company. -
Girdlers’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Girdlers
The Girdlers’ Company was one of the lesser livery companies of London. The Worshipful Company of Girdlers is still active and maintains a website at http://www.girdlers.co.uk/ that includes a history of the company. -
The Leathersellers’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Leathersellers
The Leathersellers’ Company was one of the lesser livery companies of London. The Worshipful Company of Leathersellers is still active and maintains a website at http://www.leathersellers.co.uk/ that includes a history of the company. -
The Loriners’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Loriners
The Loriners’ Company was one of the lesser livery companies of London. The Worshipful Company of Loriners is still active and maintains a website at http://www.loriner.co.uk/ that includes a history of the company. -
The Masons’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Masons
The Masons’ Company was one of the lesser livery companies of London. The Worshipful Company of Masons is still active and maintains a website at http://www.loriner.co.uk/ that includes a history of the company. -
The Merchant Adventurers’ Company of London
The Worshipful Company of Merchant Adventurers of London
The Merchant Adventurers’ Company of London was one of the lesser livery companies of London. -
The Merchant Venturers’ Company of London
The Worshipful Company of Merchant Venturers of London
The Merchant Venturers’ Company of London was one of the lesser livery companies of London. -
The Painter-Stainers’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers
The Painter-Stainers’ Company was one of the lesser livery companies of London. The Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers is still active and maintains a website at https://painter-stainers.org/ that includes a history of the company. -
Parish Clerks’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks
The Parish Clerks Company was one of the lesser livery companies of London. The Parish Clerks Company is still active and maintains a website at http://www.londonparishclerks.com/ that includes a history of the company. -
The Paviors’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Paviors
The Paviors’ Company was one of the lesser livery companies of London. The Worshipful Company of Paviors is still active and maintains a website at http://paviors.org.uk/ that includes a history of the company. -
Pewterers’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Pewterers
The Pewterers’ Company was one of the lesser livery companies of London. The Worshipful Company of Pewterers is still active and maintains a website at http://www.pewterers.org.uk/ that includes a history of the company. -
Plaisterers’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Plaisterers
The Plaisterers’ Company was one of the lesser livery companies of London. The Worshipful Company of Plaisterers is still active and maintains a website at https://plaistererslivery.co.uk/ that includes a history of the company. -
Plumbers’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Plumbers
The Plumbers’ Company was one of the lesser livery companies of London. The Worshipful Company of Plumbers is still active and maintains a website at http://www.plumberscompany.org.uk/. -
The Poulters’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Poulters
The Poulters’ Company was one of the lesser livery companies of London. The Worshipful Company of Poulters is still active and maintains a website at http://www.poulters.org.uk/ that includes a history of the company. -
Saddlers’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Saddlers
The Saddlers’ Company was one of the lesser livery companies of London. The Worshipful Company of Saddlers is still active and maintains a website at http://www.saddlersco.co.uk/ that includes a history of the company. -
Scriveners’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Scriveners
The Scriveners’ Company was one of the lesser livery companies of London. The Worshipful Company of Scriveners is still active and maintains a website at https://www.scriveners.org.uk/ that includes a history of the company. -
Shipwrights’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Shipwrights
The Shipwrights’ Company did not become a livery company until 1782. However, a Shipwrights’ Company had been regulating shipbuilding in London for centuries before then. ShipwrightsBelow the Bridge
built seagoing ships, while ShipwrightsAbove the Bridge
built river craft. The Worshipful Company of Shipwrights is still active and maintains a website at http://www.shipwrights.co.uk/ that includes a history of the company. -
Stationers’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Stationers
The Stationers’ Company was one of the lesser livery companies of London. The Worshipful Company of Stationers is still active (under the new title of the The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers) and maintains a website at https://stationers.org/ that includes a history of the company. -
Tallow Chandlers’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Tallow Chandlers
The Tallow Chandlers’ Company was one of the lesser livery companies of London. The Worshipful Company of Tallow Chandlers is still active and maintains a website at http://www.tallowchandlers.org/ that includes a history of the company. -
Tax Advisors’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Tax Advisors
The Tax Advisors’ Company was one of the lesser livery companies of London. The Worshipful Company of Tax Advisors is still active and maintains a website at http://www.taxadvisers.org.uk/ that includes a history of the company. -
Tylers and Bricklayers’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Tylers and Bricklayers
The Tylers and Bricklayers’ Company was one of the lesser livery companies of London. The Worshipful Company of Tylers and Bricklayers is still active and maintains a website at http://www.tylersandbricklayers.co.uk/ that includes a history of the company. -
Upholders’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Upholders
The Upholders’ Company was one of the lesser livery companies of London. The Worshipful Company of Upholders is still active and maintains a website at https://upholders.co.uk/ that includes a history of the company. -
Watermens’ and Lightermens’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Watermen and Lightermen
The Watermens’ and Lightermens’ Company was one of the lesser livery companies of London. It was founded in 1514 and remains active today, with a website at https://watermenscompany.com/. -
Wax Chandlers’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Wax Chandlers
The Wax Chandlers’ Company was one of the lesser livery companies of London. -
Weavers’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Weavers
The Weavers’ Company was one of the lesser livery companies of London. The Worshipful Company of Weavers is still active and maintains a website at http://www.weavers.org.uk/ that includes a history of the company. -
Woodmongers’ Company
The Worshipful Company of .
The Worshipful Company of Woodmongers was one of the lesser livery companies of London. With the transition to coal as a primary fuel source, the Woodmongers became defunct by 1731. SeeThe Worshipful Company of the Woodmongers and the Coal Trade of London
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Woolmens’ Company
The Worshipful Company of Woolmen
The Worshipful Company of Woolmen was one of the lesser livery companies of London. The Worshipful Company of Woolmen is still active and maintains a website at http://woolmen.com/ that includes a history of the company.
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Dale, Hylton B.The Worshipful Company of the Woodmongers and the Coal Trade of London.
Journal of the Royal Soceity of Arts 70.36 (1922): 816–823.This item is cited in the following documents:
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Herbert, William. The History of the Twelve Great Livery Companies of London. Vol. 2. London, 1836. Remediated by Google Books.This item is cited in the following documents:
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Stow, John, The survey of London contayning the originall, increase, moderne estate, and government of that city, methodically set downe. With a memoriall of those famouser acts of charity, which for publicke and pious vses have beene bestowed by many worshipfull citizens and benefactors. As also all the ancient and moderne monuments erected in the churches, not onely of those two famous cities, London and Westminster, but (now newly added) foure miles compasse. Begunne first by the paines and industry of Iohn Stovv, in the yeere 1598. Afterwards inlarged by the care and diligence of A.M. in the yeere 1618. And now completely finished by the study and labour of A.M. H.D. and others, this present yeere 1633. Whereunto, besides many additions (as appeares by the contents) are annexed divers alphabeticall tables; especially two: the first, an index of things. The second, a concordance of names. London: Printed by Elizabeth Purslovv for Nicholas Bourne, 1633. STC 23345. U of Victoria copy.This item is cited in the following documents:
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Janelle Jenstad
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Janelle Jenstad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of The Map of Early Modern London, and PI of Linked Early Modern Drama Online. She has taught at Queen’s University, the Summer Academy at the Stratford Festival, the University of Windsor, and the University of Victoria. With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Mark Kaethler, she co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media (Routledge). She has prepared a documentary edition of John Stow’s A Survey of London (1598 text) for MoEML and is currently editing The Merchant of Venice (with Stephen Wittek) and Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody for DRE. Her articles have appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Renaissance and Reformation,Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Early Modern Literary Studies, Elizabethan Theatre, Shakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of Performance Criticism, and The Silver Society Journal. Her book chapters have appeared (or will appear) in Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society (Brill, 2004), Shakespeare, Language and the Stage, The Fifth Wall: Approaches to Shakespeare from Criticism, Performance and Theatre Studies (Arden/Thomson Learning, 2005), Approaches to Teaching Othello (Modern Language Association, 2005), Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2007), New Directions in the Geohumanities: Art, Text, and History at the Edge of Place (Routledge, 2011), Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter, 2016), Teaching Early Modern English Literature from the Archives (MLA, 2015), Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana, 2016), Making Things and Drawing Boundaries (Minnesota, 2017), and Rethinking Shakespeare’s Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies (Routledge, 2018).Roles played in the project
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Jenstad, Janelle.
Building a Gazetteer for Early Modern London, 1550-1650.
Placing Names. Ed. Merrick Lex Berman, Ruth Mostern, and Humphrey Southall. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana UP, 2016. 129-145. -
Jenstad, Janelle.
The Burse and the Merchant’s Purse: Coin, Credit, and the Nation in Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody.
The Elizabethan Theatre XV. Ed. C.E. McGee and A.L. Magnusson. Toronto: P.D. Meany, 2002. 181–202. Print. -
Jenstad, Janelle.
Early Modern Literary Studies 8.2 (2002): 5.1–26..The City Cannot Hold You
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The Silver Society Journal 10 (1998): 40–43.The Gouldesmythes Storehowse
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Jenstad, Janelle.
Lying-in Like a Countess: The Lisle Letters, the Cecil Family, and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside.
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 34 (2004): 373–403. doi:10.1215/10829636–34–2–373. -
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Public Glory, Private Gilt: The Goldsmiths’ Company and the Spectacle of Punishment.
Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society. Ed. Anne Goldgar and Robert Frost. Leiden: Brill, 2004. 191–217. Print. -
Jenstad, Janelle.
Smock Secrets: Birth and Women’s Mysteries on the Early Modern Stage.
Performing Maternity in Early Modern England. Ed. Katherine Moncrief and Kathryn McPherson. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. 87–99. Print. -
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Using Early Modern Maps in Literary Studies: Views and Caveats from London.
GeoHumanities: Art, History, Text at the Edge of Place. Ed. Michael Dear, James Ketchum, Sarah Luria, and Doug Richardson. London: Routledge, 2011. Print. -
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Versioning John Stow’s A Survey of London, or, What’s New in 1618 and 1633?.
Janelle Jenstad Blog. https://janellejenstad.com/2013/03/20/versioning-john-stows-a-survey-of-london-or-whats-new-in-1618-and-1633/. -
Shakespeare, William. The Merchant of Venice. Ed. Janelle Jenstad. Internet Shakespeare Editions. Open.
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Stow, John. A SVRVAY OF LONDON. Contayning the Originall, Antiquity, Increase, Moderne estate, and description of that Citie, written in the yeare 1598. by Iohn Stow Citizen of London. Also an Apologie (or defence) against the opinion of some men, concerning that Citie, the greatnesse thereof. With an Appendix, containing in Latine, Libellum de situ & nobilitate Londini: written by William Fitzstephen, in the raigne of Henry the second. Ed. Janelle Jenstad and the MoEML Team. MoEML. Transcribed. Web.
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Martin D. Holmes
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Programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC). Martin ported the MOL project from its original PHP incarnation to a pure eXist database implementation in the fall of 2011. Since then, he has been lead programmer on the project and has also been responsible for maintaining the project schemas. He was a co-applicant on MoEML’s 2012 SSHRC Insight Grant.Roles played in the project
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freedom
Having the freedom of the City meant that a person could practice trade within London. Normally, a person entered into the freedom by becoming a member or brother of one of the livery companies. (JJ)This term is tagged in the following documents:
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