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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ... THE HISTORY OF THE FOUNDERS' COMPANY AND THEIR HALL I Am indebted to my partner, Mr. Edward Clifton Brown, for the following information about the old Founders' Company and its hall:1 In the first place, the motto of the old Founders' Company is God the only Founder, and the first mention of this Company is found in the archives of the Corporation of London, A. D. 1365, when application was made for ordinances by the Master and Wardens, thus proving that the origin of the Company must be of even earlier date. In IS63, in the reign of Edward HI, it was ordained that all artificers and people of mysteries shall each choose his own mystery before the next Candelmas, and having so chosen it he shall henceforth use no other. The Founders apparently never took any part in the passing turmoils or political struggles of these early days, and appear as a corporate body to have endeavoured to perform their own prescribed duties in relieving their poorer brethren, in settling disputes, and punishing dishonest members of the trade. Their business was chiefly in brass and brass candlesticks, and one of the most important duties of the Founders' Company was to check all weights and measures used in London. The first intimation, however, that we have of this is in 1584 when considerable alarm and distrust had arisen from the loss of the legal standards, and the Founders' Company were made responsible for the standard weights and measures, and no persons were able to buy or sell except with true weights and measures, which had to bear the stamp of the Founders' Company. 1The facts which follow are taken from the Annals'of the Founders' Company, lent to Mr. Brown by the present clerk, Arthur Hughes. These Annuls were presented to the Founders'...

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