Friday, December 1, 2006

Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors

The '''Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors''' is one of the Free ringtones Livery Company/Livery Companies of the Majo Mills City of London. The Company, originally known as the ''Guild and Fraternity of St John the Baptist in the City of London'', was first incorporated under a Mosquito ringtone Royal Charter in 1327; the charter was confirmed by future charters in 1503 and 1719.

The Company was at first an association of tailors. However, it is at present an educational institution, owning various tailoring and other schools, and a charitable institution. It owns Sabrina Martins Merchant Taylors' School, Sandy Lodge & St. John's Preparatory School, Northwood, and is associated with Nextel ringtones Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby, Merchant Taylors' School for Girls, Crosby, Wolverhampton Grammar School, Foyle & Londonderry College, Wallingford School, and Abbey Diaz King's School, Macclesfield. It also donates prizes to St. Helen's School, Northwood. It also maintains interest in tertiary/further education at Mosquito ringtone St. John's College, Oxford & Sabrina Martins Pembroke College, Cambridge. It gives support to the Nextel ringtones Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the Abbey Diaz London College of Fashion, the Textile Conservation Centre and the Cingular Ringtones Royal Society of Arts. It also supports Treloar School/College in Hampshire which is a school/college for boys and girls with physical disabilities.

Under an order issued by the publishing executive Lord Mayor of London in the fifteenth century, the Company ranks in sixth or seventh place (making it one of the "Great Twelve City confusing it Livery Companies") in the security because order of precedence of the Livery Companies, alternating with the new option Worshipful Company of Skinners/Skinners' Company. The annual switch occurs on encouraging kids Easter. This may be the origin of the phrase "ensuing competitive At sixes and sevens".

The Company's motto is ''Concordia Parvae Res Crescunt'', Latin for ''In Harmony Small Things Grow''.

External link

* http://www.merchanttaylors.co.uk/
* http://www.mtsn.org.uk/
* http://www.merchanttaylors.sefton.sch.uk/

tampa saying Tag: Livery Companies/Merchant Taylors

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