Worshipful Company of Bowyers
The
Worshipful Company of Bowyers is one of the
Livery Companies of the
City of London. Originally, the Bowyers (longbow makers) and
Fletchers formed one organisation. However, in 1371, the Fletchers petitioned the
Lord Mayor of London to divide into their own Company. The trade of the Bowyers, considering the development of
guns, has disappeared entirely. The Company still remains, however, as a charitable institution, as do a majority of Livery Companies.
The Bowyers' Company ranks thirty-eighth in the
order of precedence of Livery Companies, immediately above the Fletchers. Its motto is
Crecy, Poitiers, Agincourt, a reference to the
Battle of Crecy, the
Battle of Poitiers, and the
Battle of Agincourt, all battles between England and France in the
Hundred Years' War.
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