Example sentences of "[art] drapers ' company " in BNC.

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1 In 1650 he returned to London with ‘ a great estate ’ , and in July of that year took his freedom of the Drapers ' Company and the Levant Company .
2 He was an alderman between 1659 and 1662 , sheriff in 1659 , and master of the Drapers ' Company in 1660 .
3 In addition , he was master of the Drapers ' Company ( 1708–9 ) , and active in the new South Sea Company as director ( 1711–13 ) and deputy governor ( 1712–13 ) .
4 Thornton was one of a group of manuscript chart-makers , who , since the early seventeenth century , had plied their trade as members of the Drapers ' Company in shops lining the streets and alleys down-river from the Tower of London .
5 As a full member of the Drapers ' Company and with apprentices indentured to him he produced manuscript and engraved charts .
6 Gascoyne 's last payment of dues to the Drapers ' Company was recorded in February 1689 and from this date his energies were directed mainly , but not exclusively , towards land surveying .
7 1718 ) , a member of the Drapers ' Company since 1686 , as the eighth of Perry 's sequence of eighteen apprentices .
8 On completion of his articles , 3 April 1706 , Barclay was admitted a freeman of the Drapers ' Company , and in 1720 a liveryman .
9 Palmer was a freeman of the Drapers ' Company by patrimony and served as a member of the court ( 1792–5 ) .
10 Horace Walpole 's Letters , 1857–9 ( letter to Horace Mann of 6 October 1753 ) ; parish records at Westminster City Library ; records of the Drapers ' Company . ]
11 Rundell was made free of the Drapers ' Company by redemption on 15 May 1771 .
12 He was master of the Drapers ' Company of London in 1477–8 and in the latter year appears buying goods abroad for the royal wardrobe .
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