London City

Chapter 153: THE PAVIORS

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A detailed topographical and historical survey of the City of London, arranged as a street-by-street perambulation grouped into logical sections. It interweaves architectural descriptions, church and company histories, and antiquarian notes with a contemporary (end of the nineteenth century) account of urban appearance. The text includes appendices cataloguing livery companies and civic officers, large maps and numerous illustrations, and discusses vanished as well as extant buildings while explaining editorial conventions used for identifying surviving churches and company halls.

THE PAVIORS

There is no record of incorporation of this Company. Pavements are mentioned “within Newgate,” “hard by St. Nicholas Fleshameles,” “before the Friars Minors”—all apparently meaning the same place. The earliest record the Company possesses is a small book, dated 1597, called “The Booke of Stattutes of the Pavioures which is used soundryes Tymes.” The kind of pavement consisted probably of the round cobble-stones, afterwards used everywhere. Freestone pavements were ordered after the Fire of London, but the order was not obeyed. The Company has no Hall.

The Company possesses no Livery, though a considerable number of freemen.

The Pewterers. See p. 152.