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The author, writing from a long personal association and former office, expands a society paper into a concise institutional history that combines archival detail with reminiscence. It traces the company's medieval origins, chartered privileges, corporate name and heraldry, and ritual ties to the Corpus Christi feast, while describing governance, estate management, charitable trusts, schools, and awards. Chapters rebut contemporary criticisms of livery companies, emphasize responsible stewardship of funds, and portray membership as a congenial network of educated men committed to public and private benefactions.

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Title: An Old City Company: A Sketch of the History and Conditions of the Skinners' Company of London

Author: Lewis Boyd Sebastian

Release date: June 11, 2019 [eBook #59727]

Language: English

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Privately Printed Opuscula
ISSUED TO MEMBERS OF
THE SETTE OF ODD VOLUMES.
No. LIV.
AN OLD CITY COMPANY.

An Old City Company:
 
A SKETCH OF THE HISTORY AND CONDITIONS OF
 
The Skinners’ Company of London,

The substance whereof was compiled
by command of His Oddship
Brother Max Pemberton, Hack,
and read before
Ye Sette of Odd Volumes on
November 25th, 1902.
BY
LEWIS BOYD SEBASTIAN,
Skynner to ye Sette.
LONDON:
Imprynted at ye Bedford Press, 20 & 21, Bedfordbury, W.C.
MDCCCCVI.
IMPRIMATUR

Let this be imprinted.

By Order of the Publication Committee,
Conrad W. Cooke (Mechanick),
Secretary, Publication Committee.

This Edition is limited to 299 Copies, and is imprynted for private circulation only.

No....

Presented unto
BY
Dulce est Desipere in Loco.
Horace. Odes, iv, 12.
DULCE—Delightful, says the Poet,
EST—is it, and right well we know it,
DESIPERE—to play the fool
IN LOCO—when we’re out of school.
W. M. T.