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ISSUED TO MEMBERS OF

THE SETTE OF ODD VOLUMES.

No. LIV.

AN OLD CITY COMPANY.

An Old City Company: A SKETCH OF THE HISTORY AND CONDITIONS OF The Skinners’ Company of London,

The substance whereof was compiled

by command of His Oddship

Brother Max Pemberton, Hack,

and read before

Ye Sette of Odd Volumes on

November 25th, 1902.

BY

LEWIS BOYD SEBASTIAN,

Skynner to ye Sette.

LONDON:

Imprynted at ye Bedford Press, 20 & 21, Bedfordbury, W.C.

MDCCCCVI.

IMPRIMATUR

Let this be imprinted.

By Order of the Publication Committee,

Conrad W. Cooke (Mechanick),

Secretary, Publication Committee.

This Edition is limited to 299 Copies, and is imprynted for private circulation only.

No....

Presented unto

BY

Dulce est Desipere in Loco.

Horace. Odes, iv, 12.

DULCE—Delightful, says the Poet,

EST—is it, and right well we know it,

DESIPERE—to play the fool

IN LOCO—when we’re out of school.

W. M. T.