Innholders Hall and St Michael Paternoster Royal (34699005740)

The Worshipful Company of Innholders is one of the 110 livery companies of the

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. The innholders were originally known as hostellers, but their name had changed by the time it was incorporated under a

royal charter A royal charter is a formal grant issued by a monarch under royal prerogative as letters patent. Historically, they have been used to promulgate public laws, the most famous example being the English Magna Carta (great charter) of 1215, but s ...

in 1514. The company has, over the years, lost its status as an association of traders and businessmen, instead becoming, as have most of the other livery companies, an establishment dedicated primarily to

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. The Innholders' Company ranks 32nd in the

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of all the livery companies. Its motto is ''Hinc Spes Affulget'',

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for ''Hence Hope Shines Forth'', and it is based at Innholders' Hall in College Street, between

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and Upper Thames Street.

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The Innholders' Company
{{authority control Innholders 1514 establishments in England Grade II* listed livery halls

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