The Worshipful Company of Curriers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The Curriers, or curers of leather, first formed an organization in 1272. The organisation become a Company under a Royal Charter of incorporation in 1605. The Company now exists, as do most other Livery Companies, as a charitable institution, the traditional process of currying having been made more or less obsolete by technological advances.
The Company ranks twenty-ninth in the order of precedence of Livery Companies. The Company's motto is Spes Nostra Deus, Latin for Our Hope Is God.
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The Curriers' Company (http://www.curriers.co.uk/)
The WorshipfulCompany of Curriers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London.
The organisation become a Company under a Royal Charter of incorporation in 1605.
The Company now exists, as do most other Livery Companies, as a charitable institution, the traditional process of currying having been made more or less obsolete by technological advances.
The 107 Livery Companies are trade associations based in the City of London, each known as the WorshipfulCompany of the relevant trade or profession.
The Livery Companies originally developed as guilds and were responsible for the regulation of their trades, controlling, for instance, wages and labour conditions.
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 were destroyed, along with many reconstructed ones, during the Blitz.
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