The history and survey of London : from its foundation to the present time . rrender their Charter. How-ever, by an Aft of Common Council in the Year1694, they obtained a Privilege for keeping onehundred and twenty Carts (exclufive of the fourhundred and twenty publick ones kept by theCarmen) for the more effectual carrying ontheir Bufinefs. This Company, by an Aft of Common Coun-cil, had the Management of the Publick Cartscommitted to them, from the Year 1661, to thatof 1665, when, by reafon of their bad Conduft,and finifter Practices, the Charge of Infpeftionwas returned to ChriJTs Hofpital.


The history and survey of London : from its foundation to the present time . rrender their Charter. How-ever, by an Aft of Common Council in the Year1694, they obtained a Privilege for keeping onehundred and twenty Carts (exclufive of the fourhundred and twenty publick ones kept by theCarmen) for the more effectual carrying ontheir Bufinefs. This Company, by an Aft of Common Coun-cil, had the Management of the Publick Cartscommitted to them, from the Year 1661, to thatof 1665, when, by reafon of their bad Conduft,and finifter Practices, the Charge of Infpeftionwas returned to ChriJTs Hofpital. Woolmen^ 43. Tho this Fraternity isof great Antiquity, andprobably coeval with theWool-Trade of this King-dom ; yet it is only a Com-munity by Prefcription, andnot by Charter : FTowever,it has the Honour of beingone of the City Companies,by the Title of The Mafter, Wardens and AJfiflants of the Fraternity or Company of Woolmen of the City 0/London. They confift of a Mafter, two Wardens and eleven Afliftants: but have neither Livery, nor Hall to tranfaft their Affairs


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