142 History of the Company. 



Jesse Gibson, and the first stone was laid on 



Thursday, 7th March, 1822. The wine cellar had 



been added to the Hall in i8os, being: 



Rebuilt 1822. , - , . . ^, ^ 



taken out 01 the ground m what was 

 called " the front yard " of the Hall and 

 inaugurated by a pipe of Port. Previous to this 

 date we learn that the wine consumed by the 

 Company was procured from the caterer who 

 supplied the dinners. In the same year the 

 Court decided to supply the Stewards' and Lord 

 Mayors' Feasts from the Hall Kitchen. These 

 feasts had hitherto been supplied from outside, 

 very probably from the adjacent London Tavern. 



One of the instances recorded of the Company 



A.D. 1822. exercising their full prerogative of 



Worthless sad- search was as late as 1822. The-Com- 



dles destroyed. i • i • r i i 



pany having been iniormed by various 

 London Saddlers that a certain Mr. Deykin, of 

 Holborn, was in the habit of having a great 

 quantity of worthless saddles made and disposing 

 of them by auction, made a rigorous search 

 throughout the City to find the whereabouts of 

 the maker. Succeeding in the discovery, they 

 appropriated sixteen of the said worthless sad- 

 dles, being made of old trees covered with new 

 leather, and appointed a jury of London Saddlers 

 to view them, by whom they were at once con- 

 demned. Mr. Deykin being summoned to appear 

 before the Company, and to show cause why 

 the saddles should not be destroyed, denied the 

 Company's prerogative ; but of this they endea- 



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