Example sentences of "of [art] [noun] ' company " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | The second son , William , became a master of the Musicians ' Company , and the third , Charles , played cricket for Middlesex and England . |
| 4 | He emerged as a wine merchant in Pall Mall ; respectability and civic office came by way of his membership of the Vintners ' Company , of which he was master in 1768 . |
| 5 | Paul , who may himself have been trained as a silver-chaser , was apprenticed in 1784 to William Rock of Westminster , another victualler , becoming free of the Vintners ' Company in 1791 . |
| 6 | , 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 . |
| 7 | He served an apprenticeship with the London bookseller Abel Roper from 1 August 1644 until 28 June 1652 , when he became free of the Stationers ' Company . |
| 8 | A year later he became master of the Stationers ' Company . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | [ 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 . ) , |
| 11 | William became a freeman of the Stationers ' Company on 6 December 1591 . |
| 12 | [ 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 . , |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He was an alderman between 1659 and 1662 , sheriff in 1659 , and master of the Drapers ' Company in 1660 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | As a full member of the Drapers ' Company and with apprentices indentured to him he produced manuscript and engraved charts . |
| 18 | 1718 ) , a member of the Drapers ' Company since 1686 , as the eighth of Perry 's sequence of eighteen apprentices . |
| 19 | On completion of his articles , 3 April 1706 , Barclay was admitted a freeman of the Drapers ' Company , and in 1720 a liveryman . |
| 20 | Palmer was a freeman of the Drapers ' Company by patrimony and served as a member of the court ( 1792–5 ) . |
| 21 | 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 . ] |
| 22 | Rundell was made free of the Drapers ' Company by redemption on 15 May 1771 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He was apprenticed on 13 November 1673 to John Dunnell ( or Dunning ) , a freeman of the Turners ' Company . |
| 25 | Marshall became a freeman of the Turners ' Company on 2 December 1685 . |
| 26 | He was probably apprenticed as a London scrivener and continued to be an active member of the Scriveners ' Company throughout his life . |
| 27 | In 1473 the king ordered him to look into a dispute between two members of the goldsmiths ' company . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | He was a Warden of the Goldsmiths ' Company in 1467 and 1471 , becoming Prime Warden in 1476 . |
| 30 | 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 . |