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 . |