History of the Company. hi 



Pitt Coale and Sea Coale," at the yearly rent of 

 Thirty Pounds. 



Again, on the 12th February, 1718, it is 

 recorded — 



" That the Clerk have Hberty to lett the Hall and 

 Court Parlour for Funerals and sales of goods during 

 pleasure of y'' Court, he making good all damages 

 arising thereby." 



In the rebuilding of the Hall the Company 

 appears to have infringed the right of light 

 belonging to St. Vedast Church adjoining, and on 

 the 20th July, 1669, the Company subscribed £60 

 towards rebuilding St. Vedast, or St. Foster, as it 

 is called in the minutes, on condition that they 

 should be exempt from all claims by the Church 

 in respect of the said infringement, and from all 

 liability of taxes for the rebuilding. Shortly 

 afterwards we find the Company refusing effec- 

 tually to pay a rate levied on the parish for 

 pewing the Church. In 1698 the Court appointed 

 a Committee of their number to wait upon Sir 

 Christopher Wren, the architect of St. Vedast, 

 and to request him to take steps to put sufficient 

 bars to the Church windows to prevent all possi- 

 bility of access from the Church to the Company's 

 premises. 



The Company's Order Books contain frequent 



Lord Mayors' ^llusion to the great civic pageant of the 



Shows. year, the Lord Mayor's Show. The 



