The Worshipful Company of Curriers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The Curriers, or curers of leather, first formed an organisation in 1272. This organisation became a Company under a Royal Charter of Incorporation in 1606. The Company now exists, as do most other Livery Companies, as a ceremonial and charitable institution, the traditional process of currying having been made more or less obsolete by technological advances. The Curriers, like other Livery Companies, support the work of the Lord Mayor, the City of London Corporation and the Sheriffs.
The Company ranks twenty-ninth in the order of precedence of Livery Companies. The Company's motto is Spes Nostra Deus, Latin for Our Hope is in God.
Most of the Curriers’ Company archives are kept at the Guildhall Library for public view.
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