The Worshipful Company of Innholders is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The Innholders were originally known as Hostellers, but their name had changed by the time it was incorporated under a Royal Charter in 1514. The Company has, over the years, lost its status as an association of traders and businessmen, instead becoming, as have most other Livery Companies, an establishment dedicated primarily to charity.
The Innholders' Company ranks thirty-second in the order of precedence of Livery Companies. Its motto is Hinc Spes Affulget, Latin for Hence Hope Shines Forth.
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The Innholders' Company (http://www.innholders.co.uk/)
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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