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The Worshipful Company of Leathersellers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The organisation originated in the latter part of the fourteenth century and received a Royal Charter in 1444. The Company, which originally regulated leather merchants, no longer retains a close relationship with the original trade. It is instead a charitable and educational institution.
The Company ranks fifteenth in the order of precedence of Livery Companies. The Company's motto is Soli Deo Honor Et Gloria, Latin for With God Alone, Honour and Glory.
External link
The Leathersellers' Company (http://www.leathersellers.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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