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SECTION II. Towns and Gilds

English Economic History: Select Documents · Alfred Edward Bland — chapter 9 of 43 · ~250 words · public domain

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TOWNS AND GILDS

1. A Protest at Coventry against a Gild's Exclusiveness, 1495 282

2. A Complaint from Coventry as to Inter-Municipal Tariffs, 1498 282

3. The Municipal Regulation of Wages at Norwich, 1518 282

4. The Municipal Regulation of Markets at Coventry, 1520 283

5. The Municipal Regulation of Wages at Coventry, 1524 284

6. An Act for Avoiding of Exactions taken upon Apprentices in Cities, Boroughs, and Towns Corporate, 1536 284

7. An Act whereby certain Chantries, Colleges, Free Chapels and the Possessions of the same be given to the King's Majesty, 1547 286

8. Regrant to Coventry and Lynn of Gild Lands Confiscated under 1 Edward VI, c. xiv (the preceding Act), 1548 291

9. A Petition of the Bakers of Rye to the Mayor, Jurats, and Council to prevent the Brewers taking their trade, 1575 294

10. Letter to Lord Cobham from the Mayor and Jurats of Rye concerning the Preceding Petition, 1575 295

11. The Municipal Regulation of the Entry into Trade at Nottingham, 1578-9 295

12. The Municipal Regulation of Markets at Southampton, 1587 296

13. The Municipal Regulation of Wages at Chester, 1591 296

14. The Company of Journeymen Weavers of Gloucester, 1602 297

15. Petition of Weavers who are not Burgesses, 1604-5 299

16. Extracts from the London Clothworkers' Court Book. 1537-1627 300

17. The Feltmakers Joint-Stock Project, 1611 302

18. The Case of the Tailors of Ipswich, 1615 305

19. The Grievances of the Journeymen Weavers of London, c. 1649 307

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