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47914	Various	The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, vol. 06, No. 08, August 1900 The Guild Halls of London			.txt	text/plain	4088	168	64	[Illustration: PLATE LIX HABERDASHER'S HALL: GREAT HALL] THE GUILD HALLS OF LONDON. styled as the Twelve Great Livery Companies, and these associations though the members of these companies are self-elected, they are by no present trade guilds; and to this day the common purse and the feast at to these companies, and the granting of such charters, for which companies received charters; during the fourteen years of Elizabeth's Ever since, they have met each year on St. Anthony's day and dined together, electing new wardens and crowning became obsolete, so that the companies of London are now, in this of the Skinners of London, as the company style themselves in all court, or governing body of the guild, is assembled in the hall, and All of the most important of the companies possess halls of their own, "The halls of nearly all the companies were consumed in the great	./cache/47914.txt	./txt/47914.txt