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A58108 A short account of the Company of Grocers from their original : together with their case and condition (in their present circumstances) truly stated : as also how their revenue is settled for payment of their charities, and provision made for the well-governing their members and mystery, to preserve a succession in their society : designed for information of all, and benefit of the members, and for satisfaction and encouragement of their friends and benefactors. Ravenhill, W. L. D. 1689 (1689) Wing R325; ESTC R32274 39,553 58

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's Debts and Charities if they see but any Encouragement from the rest of the Members III. This Building though it amounts to much more than what it was at first designed yet a great part thereof hath been freely laid down on purpose for this work and whatever is farther laid down towards it which it is hoped the whole will be raised by kind Members to answer these good ends would never have been so given but for this very purpose And that the Building and Beautifying the Hall may not be a bait to Creditors again to seize it so again to discourage the Members The Hall and the Company 's Revenue is by advice of Counsel settled by Conveyance and Decree I. Subject to secure the Money so taken up to discharge the Sequestrations c. And when those and what Monies they should be so necessitated to take up to compleat the Buildings shall be discharged II. Then to secure so far as the same will extend the yearly Charities wherewith the Company is chargeable by many Benefactors who so heretofore left Money in their Hands as a Fund to secure the same no part whereof now remains as being a trust they are liable in the first place as a Duty incumbent on them both to avoid a Curse and in order to obtain a Blessing from God upon their Endeavours and also to avoid prosecution of the Commissioners upon the Statute for Charitable Vses who have yearly put the Company to vast expences already upon that Account And these things having been made known to their Creditors who were also convinced by the ill success of others how vain and fruitless it would be to put themselves and the Company to trouble and charge whereby they might hazard the loss of their Debts but not in the least better secure them the Company have been not only free from Suits and Prosecutions which they were not at any time before since their troubles began but also the Wardens and Assistants have been in a great measure freed from those daily Clamours which disturbed them in the Company 's Service And now so fair an opportunity being offered to deliver the Company and to give Encouragement to Benefactors it is hoped there is no Member but will chearfully embrace it whereby they shall not only draw others on by their Example to preserve this Society still a Nursery of Charity and Seminary of good Citizens but also encourage Benefactors for the future some in their Lives and others at their Death liberally to extend their Kindness towards this Company and without all doubt such works as these are acceptable to God in times of greatest Trouble and Danger and such Benefactors may hope on no less Security than God's own Word for Ease and Comfort on a Sick Bed and Deliverence in time of Trouble And moreover their Creditors being now made sensible of the Truth of the Company 's Condition are inclined to comply with any reasonable Proposals shall be made by any on the Company 's behalf and as some have already done others are willing and ready to embrace such Terms as may be agreeable to the Company 's Condition in their present Circumstances for their Satisfaction I have thus abstracted the Company 's Case in these four Pages To the end all Persons concerned whether Members Creditors or Benefactors whose time will not permit them to read the following Sheets may be more readily informed upon all Occasions of the Truth of their Condition And for their ease who shall desire farther Satisfaction in any particular I have added marginal Notes in the following Pages for their Direction And now having at last by God's assistance and with unwearied industry accomplished my design and having also traced their Revenue to the Original Donors and Purchasers I did by order of the Assistants prepare and cause the several following Tables to be set up in their Hall which I have here inserted as a Monument more lasting to the end the Names of their Friends and Benefactors from whom they have received All may be kept in Memory that the Generations to come as well as the present Age may not only bless God for such a Foundation but be quicken'd from their Example to build and enlarge thereupon that their Names may in like manner survive in the blossom of a sweet smelling savour when their Bodies are turned to dust The several Tables c. THE Right Honourable Charles Earl of Dorset and Middlesex Lord Chambelain of his Maiesty's Houshold a Faithful Friend and Patron of this Society admitted into this Fraternity October the 22d 1689. Our most Gracious Sovereign Lord King William having been first chosen the same day their Sovereign Master WILLIAM the III. King of England c. by his Majesty's Royal Permission was on the 22d day of October in the First Year of their Majesty's Reign chosen c. Sovereign Master of this Company graciously accepting the Instrument of such his Majesty's Election and Freedom in a Gold Box. Soon after which the Ordinances for well-governing and regulating the Members and Mystery of the Grocery were examined and likewise approved of as the Law directs by the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners for the Custody of the Great Seal and the Lords Chief Justices of either Bench. Wardens Sir Ralph Box Kt. John Butterfield Richard Peirce Francis Chamberlaine CHARLES the II. late King of England c. and Sovereign Master of this Company was graciously pleased by Special Warrant under his Sign Manual to ascertain the several Branches of the Mystery of the Grocery declaring Druggists Confectioners Tobacconists and Tobacco-Cutters as all springing from it to be a part of the Mystery and pursuant thereto they were afterwards by Charter under the Great Seal duely Incorporated and made one Body with the Grocers never to be separated to preserve a Succession of Members in this Company THE Right Honourable John Earl of Mulgrave one of the Lords of the Bed-Chamber to King Charles the Second and after that Lord Chamberlain c. having taken his Freedom of this Company was most affectionately assisting to procure the Species of the Mystery explained and settled in order to preserve a Succession of Members in this Society THE Site of this Hall and Garden with the Ground whereon Sir Robert Clayton's Dwelling-House stands was formerly the Mansion-House and Inheritance of the Right Honourable the Lord Fitzwater of whom the Company purchased the same in the Reign of King Henry the Sixth and soon after built their Hall thereon for both which they borrowed great Summs of Money And afterwards in their languishing Condition Sir Henry Keble Kt. and Alderman some time Lord Mayor lent them Money on Security of their Hall and Revenue to clear their Debts And by his last Will and Testament dated in the sixth Year of King Henry the Eighth freely gave all back to the Company for ever to support their Charities SIR William Laxton Kt. and Alderman also some time Lord Mayor by