Contains only a recital and confirmation of the charter of Queen Elizabeth without any alteration or addition. The above is an abstract of the subsisting charter of the Company. It was the Broderers who produced the palls used by many Companies at the funerals of their members. They also made the pulpit cloths and altar cloths of the churches, the vestments of the clergy, the caparison of horses, and the decoration of arms and armour. The livery in 1900 was 28. Their Trust Income about £32 : 9s. The beautiful art of embroidery is encouraged by this Company by scholarships at the Royal School of Art Needlework, Decorative Needlework Society, and Clapton and Stamford Hill Government School of Art. =Milton Street=, one of the dreariest and dullest of thoroughfares, deserves some comment, having originally been that Grub Street for ever associated with starveling authors. In 1600 it was inhabited by bowyers, fletchers, bowstring-makers and such occupations. There were many bowling alleys and dicing houses. Andrew Marvell speaks of the Puritans of Grub Street. It was in the eighteenth century that the poorer sort of literary men seem to have lived here. Swift and Pope both ridiculed Grub Street writers; and Swift’s advice to Grub Street verse-writers is worth quoting: I know a trick to make you thrive: Oh! ’tis a quaint device: Your still-born poems shall survive, And scorn to wrap up spice. Get all your verses printed fair, Then let them well be dried: And Curll must have a special care To leave the margin wide. Lend these to paper-sparing Pope, And when he sits to write, No letter with an envelope Could give him more delight. When Pope has filled the margin round, Why then recall your loan; Sell them to Curll for 50 pound, And swear they are your own! Let us commemorate some of the Grub Street poets and a few others of the same obscure kind. The names of those selected justify my assertion that the miseries of poets fell only on those who were profligate, indolent, or incapable.