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88. Fishermen. —They were incorporated by letters 
patent of James II. in the year 1687, by the name of 
«< The Free Filhermen of London.” But they have nei¬ 
ther livery, hall, nor arms; and, with the three preceding 
companies, may be confidered as extinft. 
89. Parish Clerks. —This company was incorporated 
by letters patent of Henry III. in the year 1233, by the 
name of “The Fraternity of St. Nicholas;” by which 
they were known till re-incorporated by James I. in the 
yeari6n. Thefe grants were afterwards confirmed by 
letters patent of Charles I. in the year 1636, who incor¬ 
porated them by the name of “ The Matter, Wardens, 
and FeWowlhip, of Paritli Clerks of the Cities of London 
and Weftmintter, Borough of Southwark, and fifteen out- 
parithes.” This company confilts not only of a matter, 
two wardens, and nineteen afiiftants, but alfo the whole 
body of parilh-clerks within the bills of mortality. By 
a decree of the Star-chamber court in 1625, they obtained a 
privilege to keep aprefs in their hall, for printing the week¬ 
ly bills of mortality, by a perfon appointed by thearchbi- 
fhop of Canterbury. They are, by their charter, to make 
a report of all the weekly chriftenings and burials in their 
feveral parilhes every Tuefday. Their hall is in Wood- 
ftreet. 
Arms : Azure, a fleur-de-lis argent; on a chief gules, 
a leopard’s head between two books of the fecond, {fringed 
vert. Creft; a cubit-arm erect, holding in the hand pro¬ 
per a muiic-book open of the laft, garnifned or, ttringed 
vert. Motto, Unitas focictatis Jlabilitas ; “ The. union of a 
iociety is its-ftrength.” 
90. Porters. —This fraternity, or fellowfliip, which 
conlifts of Tackle and Ticket Porters, was conftituted by 
adt of-common-council in the year 1646, with a power of 
annually choofing from among themfeives twelve rulers, 
viz. fix of each denomination, for their good government, 
and for hearing and determining all differences that might 
arife between tlie members of the united body. However, 
the court of lord-mayor and aldermen have referved to 
themfeives a power of appointing one of their own body 
as the chief determinator of all controverfies. See p. 433. 
This fraternity has neither hall, livery, nor arms. 
91. Waterman. —The Watermen do not appear to 
have had any charter of incorporation before the reign of 
Philip and Mary, when they were eftablittied by parlia¬ 
ment ; and it was enacted in the 2d and 3d of that reign, 
cap. 16, that, out of the watermen between Gravefend 
and Windfor, eight overfeers (hall be chofen by the court 
of aldermen of the city of London, to keep order over 
the whole body. Befides it is ordained, that their wher¬ 
ries are to be twelve feet and a half long, and four feet 
and a half broad in the midlhip, or be liable to forfeiture: 
watermen’s names are to be regittered by the overfeers, 
and their fares appointed by the court of aldermen. &c. 
and the lord-mayor and aldermen of London, and the 
juftices of the peace of the counties adjoining to the 
Thames, have power to determine offences. By flat. 11 
and 12 W. III. zi. lightermen, &c. on the Thames, be¬ 
tween Gravefend and" Windfor, are to be of the Society 
of Watermen and Wherry men, who are made a company. 
DON. (jl5 
The lord-mayor and court of aldermen (bail yearly eleft 
eight of the beft watermen, and three of the beft lighter¬ 
men, to be overfeers and rulers ; and the watermen fhall 
choofe afiiftants, not exceeding fixty, nor lefs than forty, 
and the lightermen nine, at the principal ttairs, for pre- 
lerving good government. The rulers, &c. on their court- 
days, are to appoint forty watermen to ply on Sundays, 
betwixt Vauxhall and Limehoufe, for carrying paflengers 
?crofs the river, and to pay them for their labour, and 
apply the overplus of the money for decayed watermen. 
See. They may make rules to be obferved under penalties; 
and the lord-mayor and aldermen, on complaint, are to 
hear and determine offences, &c. None but iuch as have 
ferved their time, or are fervants or apprentices to water¬ 
men, (hall row or ply on the river. By an aft patted in 
the fecond year of the reign of George II. no waterman 
on the Thames ttiall take any apprentice or fervant, un- 
lefs he regifters the place of his known habitation with the 
clerk of the company, on pain of forfeiting ten pounds ; 
and, if any perfon, not having ferved feven years to a 
waterman, fhall row any boat for hire, he incurs the like 
penalty ; but gardeners’ boats, dung-boats, lighters. Sec. 
are excepted. There is alfo a court of afiiftants, which, 
by the fame aft, is reltrained to the number of thirty. It 
is faid that they are to furnifli 1000 men for the navy, 
upon demand by the admiralty. They have a hall at 
St. Mary’s Hill, (fee p. 429.) and pay to their poor about 
800I. a-year, chiefly railed by ferries over the Thames on 
Sunday.—The Companies of Parifli-clerks, Porters, and 
Watermen, have not the privilege of making their mem¬ 
bers freemen of the city of London. 
Arms: Barry wavy of fix, argent and azure; on the 
middle bar a boat or, on a chief of the fecond two oars 
in faltier of the third, between two cufhions of the firft, 
tafl’elled or. Creft; a dexter hand couped at the wrilt in 
bend proper, holding an oar in bend finifter or. Sup¬ 
porters; two dolphins azure, finned or. Motto, At the 
command of our fuperiors. 
92. Brown Bakers. —They were incorporated in the 
19th year of James I. but are now confidered as extinft, 
or as confounded with the ancient company of Bakers, or 
White Bakers, from whom their armorial bearings do not 
greatly differ. 
Arms : Gules, on a chevron quarterly argent and azure, 
between three .garbs, a pair of feales or, luftained by a 
hand ilfuant from a cloud at the centre chief point ; on a 
chief, barry wavy of fix, argent and azure, an anchor in 
fefs, the fluke towards the dexter, or. They appear to 
have affumed neither creft, fupporters, r.or motto. 
93. Marblers. —The company called by the name of 
Marblers, for their excellent knowledge and {kill in the 
art of infculping figures on grave-ftones, monuments, and 
the like, were an ancient fellowfhip ; but, being no in¬ 
corporated company of themfeives, are now joined with 
the company of Mafons. 
Arms : Gules, a chevron between two chipping-axes 
in chief argent, and a mallet in bale or. Creft; an arm 
embowed veiled azure, cuffed argent, holding in the hand 
proper, an engraving-philel of the laft. Motto, Grind well. 
