Example sentences of "[noun] of [art] [noun pl] ' company " in BNC.
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| 1 | " We can not close the report without mentioning the great satisfaction expressed by the Mayor and Corporation and Inhabitants of the Town of Stockport at the re-establishment of the School , and the high sense they entertained of the liberality and kindness of the Goldsmiths ' Company . " |
| 2 | I had forgotten my quest on the previous day in the pleasure of the poets ' company . |
| 3 | The whole thing did n't take very long ; just over a year after his freedom of the Weavers ' Company had been approved , William Charles Titford , Linen Draper , ‘ Son of Charles Titford of Frome , Somersetshire , Cheesemonger , ’ became free of the City , ‘ … paying unto Mr Chamberlain for this City 's use the Sum of forty six shillings and eight pence ’ . |
| 4 | Supported by a small inheritance from his father , who died in 1538 , Smith gained his freedom of the Haberdashers ' Company and subsequently of the Skinners ' , the company of Sir Andrew Judde [ q.v. ] , a wealthy City merchant and Kent landowner , whose daughter , Alice , he married about 1555 . |
| 5 | [ Bookseller , 1 July 1868 ; City Press , 18 July 1868 ; archives of the Clothworkers ' Company ; parish registers of Kirkby Ravensworth , St Bartholomew the Less , and St George Bloomsbury . ] |
| 6 | He was a Warden of the Goldsmiths ' Company in 1467 and 1471 , becoming Prime Warden in 1476 . |
| 7 | The visit originated at the request of Sir George Courthope , Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths ' Company , who expressed to the Headmaster his wish that the boys should have the opportunity to see this fine example of the work of the Company . |
| 8 | On Founder 's Day in 1972 the Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths ' Company , the Viscount Amory , and the Clerk to the Company , Mr. W.A. Prideaux , journeyed from London to open the new Hall , and afterwards inspected the new buildings and met masters and boys . |
| 9 | Farr-Jones said the whole notion of a players ' company was for all the players to be involved , not to feather the nests of a select upper echelon . |
| 10 | He received decorations from many allied states , including the Legion of Honour ( 1918 ) , and was a freeman of the Goldsmiths ' Company . |
| 11 | He was apprenticed to a bookseller , Humphrey Robinson , on 4 February 1635 , and became a freeman of the Stationers ' Company on 1 March 1643 and a liveryman in 1657 . |
| 12 | William became a freeman of the Stationers ' Company on 6 December 1591 . |
| 13 | In 1473 the king ordered him to look into a dispute between two members of the goldsmiths ' company . |
| 14 | For this the four Wardens of the Company would receive 3s 4d each : there was also a " potation " which was to be held on the preceding evening ( at a cost of 12s 6d ) and after the service there was a dinner ( 15s 6d ) ; finally , twelve poor members of the Goldsmiths ' Company were to be given a shilling each . |
| 15 | In 1473 the king ordered him to look into a dispute between two members of the goldsmiths ' company . |
| 16 | He was made a liveryman of the Goldsmiths ' Company on 13 March 1740 . |
| 17 | [ Edward Arber , A Transcript of the Registers of the Stationers ' Company 1554–1640 , 1875–94 ; E. Gordon Duff , A Century of the Book Trade , 1905 ; Henry R. Plomer , Abstracts from the Wills , 1903 ; A. W. Reed , Early Tudor Drama , 1926 ; Colin Clair , ‘ Thomas Berthelet , Royal Printer ’ , Gutenberg Jahrbuch , 1966 ; A. W. Pollard et al . , |
| 18 | By the 1640s , when he came to political prominence , he was a leading member of the Goldsmiths ' Company and a successful banker and financier . |
| 19 | Further privileges lay in store for W. C. T. as a member of the Weavers ' Company — though nearly every entry in his name subsequently is confused by his double Christian names : even the document granting him his Freedom of the City had to insert ‘ William ’ in front of ‘ Charles ’ with a caret mark , and as far as the Weavers were concerned , he was really ‘ Charles William ’ . |
| 20 | He was a member of the Haberdashers ' Company , and prospered from various sectors of English commerce , both traditional and novel . |
| 21 | he was apprenticed to his uncle , Thomas Stanton ( 1610–1674 ) , master of the Masons ' Company in 1660 and founder of the sculptors ' yard in the parish of St Andrew , Holborn , of which Stonecutter Street possibly marks the site . |
| 22 | The second son , William , became a master of the Musicians ' Company , and the third , Charles , played cricket for Middlesex and England . |
| 23 | A year later he became master of the Stationers ' Company . |
| 24 | The 470th Master of the Clothworkers ' Company Sir Peter Gadsden , a former Lord Mayor of London ; and the Master of the Clockmakers ' Company Mr Alan Henn , entertained guests to ‘ A Shropshire Dinner ’ at Salters Hall , in the City of London . |
| 25 | During the 1650s he served as master of the Clothworkers ' Company and an assistant of the Levant Company . |
| 26 | His father was active in City companies , and was master of the Carpenters ' Company in 1906 . |
| 27 | , Michael ( c. 1588–1653 ) , stationer and author , was born in Eynsham , Oxfordshire , c .1588 , the son of Richard Sparke , a husbandman according to the records of the Stationers ' Company , to which Michael was apprenticed in 1603 . |
| 28 | [ L. Rostenberg , Literary , Political , Scientific , Religious , and Legal Publishing , Printing and Bookselling in England , 1551–1700 : Twelve Studies , 2 vols. , 1965 ; idem , ‘ John Martyn , Printer to the Royal Society ’ , Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America , vol. xlvi , 1952 ; C. A. Rivington , ‘ Early Printers to the Royal Society , 1663–1708 ’ , Notes and Records of the Royal Society , vol. xxxix , part 1 , 1984 ; records of the Stationers ' Company ; A. R. and M. B. Hall ( eds . ) , |
| 29 | The details of his early life are not known , but by 1450 he was apprenticed to Robert Botiller , a goldsmith in London , and by 1458 had become a lowys ( the term used in the records of the Goldsmiths ' Company to describe someone allowed to practise the craft ) . |
| 30 | The Prime Warden and Wardens of the Goldsmiths ' Company , Governors and Patrons of the School , with their Solicitor and Architect |