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Pelt Trader Review: The Skinners and the Merchant Taylors Went to War

Alan NafzgerFebruary 11, 2026

Pelt Trader Review: The Skinners and the Merchant Taylors Went to War | Two livery companies fought over precedence so violently that the Lord Mayor made them swap places every year. It is where at sixes and sevens comes from.

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The Skinners Arms Review: The Livery Company That Fought Over Precedence

Alan NafzgerDecember 16, 2016

The Skinners Arms Review: The Livery Company That Fought Over Precedence | A 4.4 pub named after the Skinners, one of the Great Twelve livery companies, whose feud over rank gave English a famous phrase

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Pelt Trader Review: The Skinners and the Merchant Taylors Went to War

The Skinners Arms Review: The Livery Company That Fought Over Precedence

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