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 Worshipful Company of Curriers - Definition 

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 organization in 1272. The organisation become a Company under a Royal Charter of incorporation in 1605. The Company now exists, as do most other Livery Companies, as a charitable institution, the traditional process of currying having been made more or less obsolete by technological advances.

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 God.

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