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• Featherbedds and Flock Bedds: Notes on the History of the Worshipful Company of Upholders of the City of London, by J. F. Houston (HTML in the UK)
• The livery companies of the city of London : their origin, character, development, and social and political importance. (S. Sonnenschein ;, 1892), by William Carew Hazlitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ordinances of the Clothworkers' Company together with those of the ancient guilds or fraternities of the fullers & shearmen of the city of Lon don, transcribed from the originals in the possession of the Company. ([The Company], 1881), by England) Clothworkers' Company (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Short History of the Worshipful Company of Horners, by H. G. Rosedale (Gutenberg ebook)

• Report and appendix (Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1884), by Great Britain. City of London Livery Companies' Commission (page images at HathiTrust)

• The history of the Worshipful Company of the drapers of London; preceded by an introduction on London and her gilds up to the close of the XVth century. (Clarendon press, 1914), by A. H. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)

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• The Development of London Livery Companies (Kress Library publication #15, bound with some others; Boston: Baker Library, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, c1960), by William F. Kahl (page images at HathiTrust)
• London city (A. & C. Black, 1910), by Walter Besant (page images at HathiTrust)
• London survivals; a record of the old buildings and associations of the city (Methuen & co., ltd., 1914), by P. H. Ditchfield (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Londonderry and the London companies, 1609-1629, being a survey and other documents submitted to King Charles I. (H. M. Stationery off., 1928), by Thomas Phillips and Northern Ireland. Public Record Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ancient halls of the city guilds (J. Lane, 1903), by Thomas R. Way and Philip Norman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorials of the Goldsmiths' Company; being gleanings from their records between the years 1335 and 1815. (Printed for private circulation by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1896), by Walter Sherburne Prideaux (page images at HathiTrust)
• The city companies of London and their good works: a record of their history, charity and treasure (J. M. Dent & co., 1904), by P. H. Ditchfield (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The story of the city companies (Houghton Mifflin company, 1926), by P. H. Ditchfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gilds and companies of London (Methuen & Co., 1908), by George Unwin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The guilds of the city of London and their liverymen. : Being an historical account of the various guilds of the city of London and their liverymen, compiled from authentic records (The London & counties press association, ltd., 1911), by John Charles Thornley and George Woodyatt Hastings (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Records of the worshipful company of tallow chandlers, London (Printed at the Chiswick Press by C. Whittingham, 1897), by England) Company of Tallow-Chandlers (London and Monier Faithful Monier Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• London citizens in 1651 : being a transcript of Harleian ms. 4778 (Hutchings & Romer, 1910), by J. C. Whitebrook, W. Whitebook, Middlesex (England). Grand Jury, and British Museum (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The history of the twelve great livery companies of London; principally compiled from their grants and records. With an historical essay, and accounts of each company ... including notices and illustrations of metropolitan trade and commerce, as originally concentrated in those societies ... with attested copies and translations of the companies' charters. (Published by the author, 1837), by William Herbert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Records of the Worshipful Company of Tallow Chandlers, London. (Cheswick Press, 1897), by England) Company of Tallow-Chandlers (London and M. F. Monier-Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report and appendix. (Printed by Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1884), by Great Britain. Commission Appointed to Inquire into the Livery Companies of the City of London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reform your city guilds ... (Bumpus, 1872), by John Robert Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The charters and letters patent granted by the kings & queens of England to the Clothworkers' Company. Translated from the originals in the possession of the Company. (Privately printed, 1881), by England) Clothworkers' Company (London and Great Britain. Sovereign (page images at HathiTrust)
• The worshipful Company of needlemakers of the City of London. (The Company, 1876), by England) Needlemakers' Company (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Records of the Worshipful Company of Tallow Chandlers, London (printed at the Chiswick Press by Charles Whittingham and Co., 1897), by Worshipful Company of Tallow Chandlers and M. F. Monier-Williams (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The curse of turtledom; an expose of the methods and extravagant expenditure of the livery companies. (Wilson, 1894), by J. E. Woolacott (page images at HathiTrust)
• London city (A. & C. Black, 1910), by Walter Besant (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Historical memoranda, charters, documents, and extracts, from the records of the corporation and the books of the company, 1396-1848 ([s.n.], 1848), by England) Coopers Company (London and James F. Firth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hole craft and fellowship of masonry. (Swan Sonnenschein & Co. ;aNew York :, 1894), by Edward Conder (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Worshipful Company of Needlemakers of the city of London : with a list of the court of assistants and livery. (The Company, 1874), by England) Worshipful Company of Needlemakers (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• London City, by Walter Besant (Gutenberg ebook)
• A short account of the Company of Grocers from their original : together with their case and condition (in their present circumstances) truly stated : as also how their revenue is settled for payment of their charities, and provision made for the well-governing their members and mystery, to preserve a succession in their society : designed for information of all, and benefit of the members, and for satisfaction and encouragement of their friends and benefactors. (London : Printed by Eliz. Holt for the Company of Grocers, MDCLXXX1X [1689]), by W. L. D. Ravenhill (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A short account of the Company of Grocers from their original : together with their case and condition (in their present circumstances) truly stated : as also how their revenue is settled for payment of their charities, and provision made for the well-governing their members and mystery, to preserve a succession in their society : designed for information of all, and benefit of the members, and for satisfaction and encouragement of their friends and benefactors. (Printed by Eliz. Holt for the Company of Grocers, 1689), by William Ravenhill and England) Grocers' Company (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• A list of the poll of the several companies of London for a lord mayor for the year ensuing: as it was cast up in the Irish Chamber of the Guild-Hall by the citizens appointed on each side for the scrutiny, in the presence of the Honourable Dudley North, Esq.; : one of the sheriffs of London and Middlesex, on Wednesday the 11. of this instant October, and then adjourned to Tuesday following: and in the meantime the inspectors to examine the books. (London : Printed for Walter Davis, 1682) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The English craft gilds; studies in their progress and decline (Columbia university press, 1927), by Stella Kramer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Influence and Development of English Gilds: As Illustrated by the History of the Craft Gilds of Shrewsbury, by Francis Aiden Hibbert (Gutenberg ebook)

• Report and appendix (Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1884), by Great Britain. City of London Livery Companies' Commission (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of the Holy Trinity Guild, at Sleaford, With an Account of its Miracle Plays, Religious Mysteries, and Shows, As Practiced in the Fifteenth Century (Lincoln: E. B. Drury, 1837), by George Oliver (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Influence and Development of English Gilds: As Illustrated by the History of the Craft Gilds of Shrewsbury, by Francis Aiden Hibbert (Gutenberg ebook)

• The representation of the case of Sir John Lenthall, Knight, in his late sufferings ([London : s.n.], Printed in the Yeare, 2654 [i.e. 1654]), by John Lenthall (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Western Fair history London, Ontario, Canada, 1867-1910 (s.n., 1911), by Anson Hunt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The amusements of old London : being a survey of the sports and pastimes, tea gardens and parks, playhouses and other diversions of the people of London from the 17th to the beginning of the 19th century (J.C. Nimmo, 1901), by William B. Boulton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Rise of the London Money Market, 1640-1826, by W. R. Bisschop (PDF at McMaster)
• The rise of the London money market 1640-1826, by W.R. Bisschop ... (P.S. King and son, 1910), by Willem Roosegaarde Bisschop (page images at HathiTrust)
• De opkomst der Londensche geldmarkt, 1640-1826 : historische en kritische beschouwing (M. Nijhoff, 1896), by W. R. Bisschop (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Metropolitan Tabernacle : its history and work (Passmore of Alabaster, 1876), by C. H. Spurgeon (page images at HathiTrust)

• Inns and Taverns of Old London, by Henry C. Shelley (Gutenberg text)
• Clubs and club life in London : with anecdotes of its famous coffee-houses, hostelries and taverns, from the seventeenth century to the present time (Chatto and Windus, 1872), by John Timbs (page images at HathiTrust)
• London in the Sixties (with a few digressions), contrib. by Donald Shaw and Ernest Widmington (Gutenberg ebook)

• The printers, stationers and bookbinders of London and Westminster in the fifteenth century. A series of four lectures delivered at Cambridge in the Lent term, MDCCCIC. (Priv. print., University press], 1899), by E. Gordon Duff (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The story of London maps. (Royal Geographical Society, 1908), by George Laurence Gomme (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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