OF THE

TWELVE GREAT LIVERY COMPANIES

OF

LONDON,

PRINCIPALLY COMPILED from tHEIR GRANTS AND RECORDS;

WITH

AN HISTORICAL ESSAY,

AND

ACCOUNTS OF EACH COMPANY,

ITS ORIGIN, CONSTITUTION, GOVERNMENT, DRESS, CUSTOMS, HALLS, AND TRUST ESTATES
AND CHARITIES;

INCLUDING NOTICES AND ILLUSTRATIONS OF

METROPOLITAN TRADE AND COMMERCE,

AS ORIGINALLY CONCENTRATED IN THOSE SOCIETIES;

AND OF THE LANGUAGE, MANNERS, AND EXPENSES OF ANCIENT TIMES;

WITH

Attested Copies and Translations of the Companies' Charters.

BY WILLIAM HERBERT,

LIBRARIAN

TO THE CORPORATION OF LONDON.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR;

AND TO BE HAD OF HIM, AT THE LIBRARY, GUILDHALL,

AND OF ALL THE PRINCIPAL BOOKSELLERS.

1836.

PHINTED BY J AND C. ADLARD, BARTHOLOMEW CLOSE

WIMMEZOLY

SUMMARY FROM VARIOUS AUTHORITIES.

"THE Fishmongers were at the first two Companies, namely: Stock-fishmongers and Salt-fishmongers. [Each bearing different coats of arms. The Stock-fishmongers bare azure, two lucies in saltire, argent, with coronets over their mouths, or. The Salt-fishmongers bare azure, three cross-keys, saltirewise, or; on which a chief gules three dolphins naiant, argent.] Which Salt-fishmongers, anno 1509, which was in the beginning of King Henry the Eighth, did bare their arms as hereafter is set down, [somewhat differently to what they bore them before, to wit: azure, three dolphins naiant, argent; on a chief gules, three cross-keys, saltirewise, or.] But, lastly, in the 28th year of the same king, anno dom. 1536, the said Companies were united into one, and then their arms were more fully granted; the ancient arms and crest were ratified and confirmed with the grant of their supporters, by Robert Cook, Clarencieux, anno 1575: and again viewed and entered in the visita