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...providing beeswax candles for churches - they still give candles to St Paul’s Cathedral. In the Middle Ages they were also responsible for embalming.  Their heyday was in the 15th century, thanks to the rise in chantry chapels, where priests would pray for the souls of prominent people. Richard III granted their charter in 1484 (his only one), and when the King in the Car Park was reinterred in Leicester Cathedral in March the Wax Chandlers provided the candles for the service.  Nowadays the livery company  still maintain connections: they sponsor the National Honey Show and are members of the British Bee Keepers’ Association. They’re ev...