The Worshipful Company of Saddlers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The Guild of Saddlers, the Company's predecessor, may have existed in Anglo-Saxon times, but certainly existed at some point in the eleventh century. The Guild became a Company when a Royal Charter of incorporation was granted in 1395. The City granted the Company the right to regulate the trade of saddle-making; all saddlers in and within two miles of the City were subject to the Company's regulations. However, the powers of the Company were eroded over time. They were completely gone by the nineteenth century. Presently, the Company exists primarily as a charitable establishment, as do most other Livery Companies, though it still retains connections with saddlery. Also, it has founded several schools and educational institutions.
The Company ranks twenty-fifth in the order of precedence of Livery Companies. The Company's motto is Hold Fast, Sit Secure.
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The Saddlers' Company (http://www.saddlersco.co.uk/)
The WorshipfulCompany of Saddlers is one of the most ancient of the Livery Companies of the City of London.
The City granted the Company the right to regulate the trade of saddle-making; all saddlers in and within two miles of the City were subject to the Company's regulations.
The Company ranks twenty-fifth in the order of precedence of Livery Companies (the order was settled in 1515 on the Companies' economic or political power at that time).
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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