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Livery Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (812 words) |
 | The 107 Livery Companies are trade associations based in the City of London, each known as the Worshipful Company 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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