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BARGE FLAGS OF THE CITY LIVERY COMPANIES OF LONDON

Pages 222-230 | Published online: 22 Mar 2013

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  • The Great Companies: Mercers, Grocers, Drapers, Fishmongers, Goldsmiths, Skinners, Merchant Taylors, Haberdashers, Salters, Ironmongers, Vintners, and Clothworkers. The Minor Companies: Apothecaries, Armourers & Brasiers, Bakers, Barbers, Basket-makers, Blacksmiths, Bowyers, Brewers, Broderers, Butchers, Carmens, Carpenters, Clockmakers, Coach & Coach-harness Makers, Cooks, Coopers, Cordwinders, Curriers, Cutlers, Distillers, Dyers, Fanmakers, Farriers, Feltmakers, Fletchers, Founders or Coppersmiths, Framework Knitters or Stocking Weavers, Fruiterers, Gardeners, Girdlers, Glass-sellers, Glaziers, Glovers, Gold & Silver Wyre Drawers, Gunmakers, Horners, Innholders, Joiners, Leather-sellers, Loriners, Masons, Musicians or Minstrels, Needlemakers, Painters or Paint-stainers, Parish Clerks, Pattern Makers, Paviors, Pewterers, Plaisterers or Pargettors, Playing-Card Makers, Plumbers, Poulters, Saddlers, Scriveners, Shipwrights, Spectacle-makers, Stationers, Tallow Chandlers, Tin-plate Workers, Turners, Tylers & Bricklayers, Upholders & Upholsters, Watermen & Lightermen, Wax Chandlers, Weavers, Wheelwrights, and Woolmen
  • Usually referred to as the Royal Standard
  • Not as is sometimes stated the dagger of Sir William Walworth, or that of Wat Tyler
  • Usually referred to as the Union Jack
  • Barge Masters and Watermen in the regular employ of the Lord Mayor of London and the Livery Companies were generally exempted by the Lords of the Admiralty from impressment to serve in the Royal Navy
  • A boat like a galley
  • Small banners
  • The King is ‘Seigfieur of the Swans’
  • 1941 . A unique position exists to-day (in the fact that the three offices are held by three brothers, namely, Mr F. T. Turk, of Cookham-on-Thames, and Messrs R. H. and H. E. Turk, of Kingston-on-Thames

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