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Worshipful Company of Carmen

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33: 114: 884: 67:, who were short of cash at the time. However, by 1597 the Carmen had fallen out with Christ's Hospital, the Woodmongers asserted their control again, and absorbed the Carmen in 1605. However alongside other rearrangements in the haulage trade, the Carmen separated and formed their own fellowship in 1668, but were unsuccessful in gaining the power to regulate carmen, until the Woodmongers became defunct in 1746. The Carmen did not acquire a 74:
Now that carts have been rendered obsolete by trucks and vans, the Carmen remain as a charitable and ceremonial institution with over 500 Liverymen, 180 Freemen plus additional 23 apprentices. The Carmen organise the ceremony of Cart Marking, which originated in the rule that no cart could ply for
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hire within the City of London unless licensed by the Corporation. Presently, the ceremony involves human powered, horsed, steam, fossil fuelled or electric, old and new vehicles rather than carts.
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up. By offering to provide the King's carriage and clean the streets the Fellowship of Carmen was established in 1517 with authority to control the
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On either side a dray horse argent, harnessed and bridled proper, gorged with a wreath of roses gules, barbed, seeded and leaved also proper.
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Carmen, or drivers of carts, caused upset in 1481. The King conscripted carts to carry his wine allowing rural carters to force
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On a wreath of the colours, A demi cart horse argent, collared sable, resting the sinister hoof on a wheel as in the Arms.
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Or, a sword erect, point upwards, in pale proper, pommel and hilt gules, between two cart wheels in fesse of the last.
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Stained glass to the Company of Carmen, Guildhall, London (detail)
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The Worshipful Company of Carmen of London. A short history
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Carmen's Company

Livery Companies
City of London
food prices
cartage trade
Christ's Hospital
Royal Charter
order of precedence
Latin
Honourable Company of Master Mariners



The Worshipful Company of Carmen


"British institutions: livery companies"
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"Worshipful Company of Carmen"
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