Borderlands - Town & City - Guilds

I had planned to continue with a list of middle-class professions from Sherilyn Kenyon's lists in Chapter 5 of the Writer's Complete Fantasy Reference and actually was working through that last night when it occurred to me that I was editing as I went - combining related professions. That caused me to notice the lack of mention of trade/ craft guilds ... or companies as they were known at the time. Therefore, this morning I went off on a tangent looking for lists of guilds.

Would you believe that there are currently 110 "Livery Companies" - aka guilds - registered in London England and several more are petitioning for livery? I copied the list down, but ... taking it verbatim is not right for the Borderlands.

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