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Worshipful Company of Stationers

Categories: Liveries & Guilds

Initially a Guild of Stationers - booksellers who copied, decorated and sold manuscript books. By about 1650 the printers had largely taken over from the manuscript boys. In 1557 they received a Royal Charter of Incorporation.

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Worshipful Company of Stationers

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Stationers' War Memorial

A beautiful, hand-crafted plaque - not just the frame, the gold lettering has...

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Worshipful Company of Stationers

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Stationers' War Memorial

A beautiful, hand-crafted plaque - not just the frame, the gold lettering has...

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Wynkyn de Worde

The sun-burst was part of de Worde's printer's device - printed at the front ...

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Other Subjects

The Worshipful Company of Loriners

The Worshipful Company of Loriners

Loriners make and sell bits, bridles, spurs, stirrups, saddle trees and the minor metal items of a horse's harness. The company was incorporated in 1711. Women were not admitted until 1989 - bette...

Group, Commerce, Liveries & Guilds

2 memorials
Worshipful Company of Fruiterers

Worshipful Company of Fruiterers

1292 -  first reference to ‘Free Fruiterers’.  First charter in 1606.  Their shield shows Adam and Eve with that first piece of fruit.

Group, Commerce, Liveries & Guilds

5 memorials
Worshipful Company of Glaziers and Painters of Glass

Worshipful Company of Glaziers and Painters of Glass

The Guild of Glaziers (who made glass) existed in 1328 and received a Royal Charter from Charles I in 1638.

Group, Liveries & Guilds

1 memorial
C. W. Hall

C. W. Hall

Master of the Innholders' Company in 1950.

Person, Liveries & Guilds, Politics & Administration

1 memorial