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Excerpt from An Historical Account of the Worshipful Company of Carpenters of the City
Members in such a manner, that the humblest ap prentice might look forward, after the lapse of a few years, to the attainment of the highest post. The more sagacious of our Monarchs soon perceived how valuable were such Societies as checks on the ever growing encroachments of the proud Norman aris tocracy, and they willingly granted them Charters of Incorporation, some even extending their patron age so far as to enrol themselves as Members. The great wealth of the Companies became a principal source of the prosperity of the nation, and no enter prise of importance could be undertaken without the concurrence of those who were to furnish the chief means for its execution.
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