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😍 5/5 - At "Sixes and Sevens"
By 👻 @Geoff H, 03/20/2020 3:00 am
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Was at Merchant Taylors' Hall, the seat of the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors (one of London's twelve livery companies dating back to Medieval times), for the dinner marking the opening 400th anniversary celebrations of the founding of Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby. The food was excellent, well cooked, well-presented and very tasty. The service was also excellent. The Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors has occupied the Hall's premises on Threadneedle Street since 1347 but the present Hall is not the first. The first Hall, built some time between 1347 and 1392, was destroyed by the Great Fire of London in 1666, when only the walls and foundations were left. The building was restored and then again suffered major damage during the London Blitz in September 1940. Reconstruction was carried out and the restored Hall was opened in March 1959. Today the Hall is used for public events, such as the dinner we attended, through a dedicated catering company. It is remarkable how excellent the service was considering the number of the diners and, especially, as the Great Kitchen has been in continuous, albeit now updated, since 1425. But why is this review entitled 'At "Sixes and Sevens"'. That phrase, beloved by commentators when describing a football's sides poor defending, actually comes from two of London's livery companies - the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors and the Worshipful Company of Skinners. Both these Companies received their first royal charter in 1327 and this gave rise to a long standing squabble between them as to which Company should be ranked sixth and which should be ranked seventh in the rankings of the City of London's livery companies. The argument came to a head in the Lord Mayor's river procession in 1484. As the Companies followed the Lord Mayor, the boats (like those in the painting on the Grand Staircase [see photos 6 and 9]) raced each other down the Thames. Eventually a brawl ensued, which left apprentices from both Companies dead. The Lord Mayor stepped in and a compromise was reached. Each year one Company would be ranked sixth and the other Company seventh. The following year the Company which had been sixth would fall to seventh and the Company which had been seventh would rise to sixth, and so on year after year. This rising and falling was set in tablets of stone when, in 1515, the livery companies' rankings were made official and it is still carried on today.
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