Volume 1

The history of the twelve great livery companies of London; principally compiled from their grants & records. With an historical essay and accounts of each company, including notices and illustrations of metropolitan trade and commerce, as originally concentrated in those societies, with attested copies and translations of the companies' charters / [William Herbert].

  • William Herbert
Date:
1836-1837 [v. 1, 1837]
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Credit: The history of the twelve great livery companies of London; principally compiled from their grants & records. With an historical essay and accounts of each company, including notices and illustrations of metropolitan trade and commerce, as originally concentrated in those societies, with attested copies and translations of the companies' charters / [William Herbert]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HISTORICAL ESSAY. Division into Two Periodsf viz. FROM THE ANGLO-SAXONS TO THE REFORMATION,-FROM THE REFORMATION TO THE REVOLUTION. From the Anglo-Saxons to the Reformation. Origin of the Livery Companies from the early associations, termed Gilds;'’ explanation of the term gild [guild or geld], by Johnson, Spelman, &c.; various senses in which it was formerly understood; divi¬ sion of gilds into ecclesiastical and secular, 1. Secular gilds at first named Merchant Gilds, afterwards Gilds-Merchant, and why, existed among the classical ancients and resembled ours, as corroborated by Fitzstephen, Gervase of Canterbury, and other ancient writers, 2-3. Anglo-Saxon (jliLDS, at first political and originated from the Saxon law or custom of Frankpledge, [account of that term,] 3-4. Further, of Anglo-Saxon Gilds; those of London, mentioned in the Judica Civitatis Londoniae of Athelstan, and other Anglo-Saxon laws, political, and how constituted, 4-5. Accounts of the only three known Anglo-Saxon Metropolitan Trade Gilds, viz. the Knighten-gild, or Gild of Portsoken, 5-10. Gilda Theutonicorum, or Gild of the Steel-yard Merchants, 10-15, and Gilda Sellariorum, or Gild of Sadlers, 16-17. Anglo-Norman Gilds, Gilda Tellariorum, or Gild of Woollen-cloth Weavers, 17-21. Foreign Gilds, viz^ French, of St. lliquer, &c. 21-2. Italian, Ars Mercantiae Pannorurn, and Universitas Merciariorum, at Rome, 22. Scotch Gilds, account of, 22-3. English (iiLDS, common in the reigii of Henry II., 23-4. List of London adulte¬ rine or unlicensed Gilds in the same reign, 24. Merchant Gilds, or “ Hanses,” formed by king John. 24-5. Confirmed by Henry III., together