Honourable Companies

[Segilla]

Is it right to assume that the prefix 'Honourable' is associated with the granting of charters by the monarch?

[dot.hawkes]

well i know that there are not many Honourable companies, and that they are also Livery Companies, and that the Honour title was bestowed by the Monarchy as opposed to by the Guilds, as with the Livery Companies.

[Segilla]

Thank dot. Now where do you think Worshipul [Company of Goldsmiths] fits in here?

[kempie]

All Livery Companies are entitled to the style 'Worshipful'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livery_Company

[MustafaTickl]

In kempie's link, can anyone explain why at No 41 Joiners and Ceilers were also known as "fusters" which is the Spanish word for carpenters and joiners as I understand it?

[kempie]

Middle English: fuster, fuyster; from Middle English/Old French fust (Fr. f�t), wooden part of a thing; Latin: fust-is, a staff, wood.

[MustafaTickl]

Thanks, kempie. Me Spanish threw me off !!!