The Worshipful Company of Upholders is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. Upholders were upholsterers; the organisation was officially incorporated by a Royal Charter in 1626. The Company originally had the right to set standards for upholstery within London, and to search, seize, and destroy defective upholstery. However, over the years, the Company's power has eroded away, as has the profession of upholsterers, considering the advancement of technology. Now, the Company exists as a charitable foundation.
The Company is the forty-ninth in the order of precedence for Livery Companies. Its motto is Sustine Bona, Latin for Uphold the Good.
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The Upholders' Company (http://www.upholders.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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