Excerpt from Some Account of the History and Antiquity of the Worshipful Company of Skinners, London The following pages have grown out of a paper which was read at a Meeting of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, held at Skinners' Hall on Tuesday, the 28th day of April, 1874. The aim of the paper was to supply concisely and graphically a history of the Company, which should contain fresh matters of interest, not hitherto collected or published, as for instance Some account of the\early illuminated Court Books; Of the rebuilding of the Hall; Of the Company's Barge; and, Of the various illustrious Members of the Company who in a period of nearly five hundred and fifty years have filled the office of Lord Mayor in the. City of London. To this is added a short account of the connection of the Company with the plantation in the Province of Ulster, set on foot by James I. 1609. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.