Example sentences of "[prep] the clothworkers ' company " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | During the 1650s he served as master of the Clothworkers ' Company and an assistant of the Levant Company . |
| 3 | At the expiry of his term he became free of the Clothworkers ' Company on 7 August 1771 . |
| 4 | [ 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 . ] |
| 5 | He was educated at Bridgnorth School , and then apprenticed to a London clothworker , becoming a freeman in the Clothworkers ' Company of London in 1541 or 1542 ( and its master in 1559 ) . |
| 6 | Once in London , he worked with James Asperne , of the European Magazine , Thomas Hurst , of Longman 's , and perhaps Thomas Tegg [ q.v. ] , who witnessed Wilson 's admission to the Clothworkers ' Company 7 February 1810 . |
| 7 | In 1875 he was awarded an exhibition in physical science newly created by the Clothworkers ' Company ; in the following year he was awarded an entrance scholarship at Christ 's College , Cambridge . |