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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. |
| MSN Encarta - Search Results - Skinners' Livery Company (103 words) |
 | Skinners' Livery Company, livery company of the City of London, south-eastern England. |
 | Skinner, Cornelia Otis (1901-1979), American actress and writer, most acclaimed for her performances of dramatic monologues that she wrote herself.... |
 | The Worshipful Company of Grocers is one of the “12 Great Livery Companies” of the City... |