An Old City Company: A Sketch of the History and Conditions of the Skinners' Company of London
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The Worshipful Company of Skinners is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. During his youth, Sebastian was an apprentice at this very company and learned to see how important it was to London. This book was written in the face of criticism the company faced to show that it was a vital part of London's history and society.
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An Old City Company - Lewis Boyd Sebastian
Lewis Boyd Sebastian
An Old City Company
A Sketch of the History and Conditions of the Skinners' Company of London
Published by Good Press, 2022
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Table of Contents
An Old City Company: A SKETCH OF THE HISTORY AND CONDITIONS OF The Skinners’ Company of London,
An Old City Company.
APPENDIX I.
The Supplementary Award of January 17th, 1521. 12 Hen. VIII.
APPENDIX II.
APPENDIX III.
An Old City Company:
A SKETCH OF THE HISTORY AND CONDITIONS OF
The Skinners’ Company of London,
Table of Contents
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.
Introductory Note.
Table of Contents
THIS historical sketch of the Skinners’ Company of London, to which I was apprenticed some forty years ago, and which I have since had the exceptional honour of serving through seven Wardenships and two Masterships (1886–7 and 1894–5) is an expansion of a Paper read before Ye Sette of Odd Volumes at Limmer’s Hotel, on the 25th November, 1902.
Who that reads can feel surprise that such a Company, with such a past—and such a present—commands and receives the loyal and enthusiastic devotion of all its members.
Five-and-twenty years ago disparaging criticisms of the ancient Livery Companies of the City of London were not uncommon. It had become a habit with writers of a certain class to describe the members of the Companies as illiterate people battening on public money, employing themselves in what was often spoken of as gorging and guzzling
at the expense of their trusts, incapable of sitting down to a meal without the incentive of £5 notes secreted under their plates; and whose business, when any was done, largely consisted in granting beneficial leases of their trust estates to one another. All ignorant and malignant fiction.
Whether anyone ever believed these stories it is difficult to say. At the present time, at all events, there can be few, if any, who can continue to do so. In point of fact, the members of the Companies are very much like other people, educated in the same ways, and actuated by the same motives, but with a strong sense of their responsibility for the maintenance by their Companies of the high position which they gained, centuries gone by. The funds of which the Companies dispose are either their trust funds—as to the dealings with which the Charity Commissioners can speak—or their corporate funds, which are governed by their own pleasure. No £5 notes are hidden under plates; no beneficial leases of a Company’s property are granted to its members. The employment of a member of the Court of the Skinners’ Company to work for the Company for remuneration, whether professionally, commercially, or otherwise, is strictly prohibited. It is no doubt true that portions of the Companies’ own incomes are spent on entertainments, in accordance with the practice which has prevailed ever since the Companies existed at all; but I do not think that here, at all events, or in any other place where good fellowship prevails, any complaint will be made of this. Moreover, as the money spent is the Companies’ own, criticism would appear to be irrelevant. The entire income of the Companies, after payment of their expenses, including the cost of the entertainments, &c., is allocated to objects of public utility, selected by the owners.
The former misconceived attacks were very wounding to the members of the Companies, whose feelings of personal honour and of affection towards their Company were sorely outraged by them. For my own part, when I compare my Company,