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	Livery Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Livery Companies originally developed as guilds and were responsible for the regulation of their trades, controlling, for instance, wages and labour conditions.
		Livery Companies are governed by a Master (known in some Companies as the Prime Warden), a number of Wardens (who may be known as the Upper, Middle, Lower, or Renter Wardens), and a Court of Assistants, which elects the Master and Wardens.
		Among the earliest companies known to have possessed halls were the Merchant Taylors and Goldsmiths in the 14th century, but neither theirs nor other companies' original halls remain; the few survivors of the Great Fire were destroyed, along with many reconstructed ones, during the Blitz.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Livery_Company (812 words)

	Worshipful Company of Haberdashers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Worshipful Company of Haberdashers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London.
		The Company, which was originally responsible for the regulation cloth merchants, began to lose control due to the increase of the population of London, its jurisdiction.
		The Company ranks eighth in the order of precedence of Livery Companies; it is therefore considered one of the "Great Twelve City Livery Companies".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Worshipful_Company_of_Haberdashers (267 words)

	St. Mary Colechurch 105/18 \| British History Online
		The Mercers agreed to contribute a further £100 towards the cost of building at the hospital and in return were to have freedom to occupy the enlarged chapel and hall which they proposed to build, and were to have the burying places within the chapel.
		Mercers' Hall occupied the frontage in a part of Cheapside which was of great commercial importance, and in the mid-16th century there was some conflict between the pressures of trading and the company's desire to maintain its ceremonial dignity, of which the imposing facade of the new building was a notable expression.
		In 1568 the Mercers agreed that a press should be constructed in the wardrobe at their hall in a corner by the ladies' chamber for the safe-keeping of the records belonging to the Adventurers, who were to pay a rent of £6.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=4620 (18355 words)

	MERCER - LoveToKnow Article on MERCER
		The Mercers Company is the first in precedence of the twelve great livery companies of the city of London, and is also the wealthiest both in trust and corporate property.
		Herbert finds the mercers as patrons of a charity a few years after 1172, and one Robert Searle, who was mayor in 1214, was a mercer.
		The history of the company is closely connected with the name of Richard Whittington (q.v.), and later with that of Dean Colet, who chose the company as the manager of St Pauls School.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/ME/MERCER.htm (205 words)

	Ronald M. Berger: The Most Necessary Luxuries
		"The Most Necessary Luxuries traces the history of the mercers' trade in Coventry, England, against the background of the economic decline of that city in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with extensive coverage of the topic of shopkeeping in England during this period.
		In The Most Necessary Luxuries, Ronald Berger uses the Mercers' Company of Coventry to follow the eclipse of an entire trading community in one of England's premier medieval cities and manufacturing centers.
		Berger charts the difficulties faced by mercers and grocers in a growing capitalist economy and discusses their unsuccessful efforts to maintain their prosperity.
	www.psupress.org /books/titles/0-271-00867-9.html (306 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Mercers controlled most of the trade of stuffs like fine fabric, threads, metal goods, glass, and etc. into the country, but individual members of other guilds might also be involved in importing their own trade goods.
		The organized Mercers were also generally able (through their usual control of the town-council-equivalent in their cities-- remember, they were prestigious and wealthy) to make life difficult for any other individuals who tried to get involved in large scale trade.
		Mercers didn't _make_ much of anything, although they might arrange for things to be manufactured; their main job was to buy things in Place A, take 'em to Place B, and sell 'em at a profit.
	www.florilegium.org /files/COMMERCE/guilds-msg.text (2900 words)

	WILLIAM CAXTON - LoveToKnow Article on WILLIAM CAXTON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Robert Large was a rich silk mercer who became sheriff in 1430 and lord mayor of London in 1439, and the fact of Caxtons apprenticeship to him argues that Caxton.s own parents were in.
		This association, sometimes known as the English Nation, was dominated by the Mercers Company, to the livery of which Caxton had been formally admitted in London.
		These attemp,ts failed, but he was again employed, with two other members of the Mercers Company, in a similar but successful mission in October 1468 to the new duke, Charles the Bold, who earlier in the year had married Princess Margaret of York, sister of Edward IV.
	41.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CA/CAXTON_WILLIAM.htm (1325 words)

	Thomas Telford School-
		The records of the Mercers' Company date back to 1347, but the Company is certainly older, for in that year new ordinances were drawn up for the conduct of its affairs.
		The Company's first charter was dated 1394, and was a Charter of Incorporation from Richard II, officially recognising the Company and providing for the government of the Company by four Wardens, enabling the Company to acquire property, to support a priest, and to maintain its poor members.
		In the early 1680's the Crown made a general attack on the liberties of the City and the Companies, and in 1684 a writ of Quo Warranto was served on the Mercers's Company and it surrendered its former privileges.
	atschool.eduweb.co.uk /bheber1/gnvq-ict/External/TTS/special/mercers.htm (637 words)

	Victorian London - Organisations - City of London - Mercers Company
		The Mercers have a chapel of their own, in which divine service is held every Sunday evening, and attended by a congregation of at least fifty persons, a respectable gathering for the city of London, where there are comparatively but few residents.
		Until recently the company had the entire management of St. Paul’s School, which was founded by Dean Colet, whose father was a mercer.
		The Mercers Company, incorporated 1393 stands first of all in civic precedence Its Guild-honse, which was re-built in 1884, is entered from Ironmonger Lane, Cheapside.
	www.victorianlondon.org /organisations/dickens-mercerscompany.htm (461 words)

	Civilization.ca - Voyages of Martin Frobisher - The Company of Cathay
		It was therefore to the Muscovy Company that Frobisher, in December 1574, applied for a licence and financial backing to seek a northwest passage to the Far East.
		The problem was that, while Burghley insisted upon some structured arrangement for organizing and funding the voyages, after the apparent success of the first voyage and even more once it appeared that a source of gold had been discovered, Queen Elizabeth herself invested, and many of her courtiers followed suit.
		The Cathay Company consequently never acquired any legal status, and the original investors from the Muscovy and Mercers' Companies had little say over the direction in which the venture developed.
	www.civilization.ca /hist/frobisher/frsub09e.html (779 words)

	Livery Company Records: the Drapers and the Mercers (nos 420-23) \| British History Online
		For the period covered by this volume, the Mercers' Company records contain copies of three known-certificates (87, 117, 221), three more not found elsewhere (420, 422—3), and one which is related to but not an exact copy of a certificate in the CLRO collection (421; see 116).
		The viewers say that the chapel and new building of the Mercers in Westcheap is 32 ft. in wideness in the E end against 'the Myter' and 60 ft. in length from E to W. There the ground is 26 ft. 8 in.
		All the ground belongs to the Mercers line right and plumb from place to place as limited, except the buttresses of the church as they now stand and the lights of the church always reserved as they now are.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=36066 (1199 words)

	Memorial Addresses -- H.V. Hodson - The Mercer
		I am the senior member of one of the long established Mercer families and it is as such that I speak of Harry Hodson, the senior member of another.
		This is evidenced by his subsequent 34 years during which he applied his enthusiasm and exceptional mental skills to furthering the administration of the Mercers Company’s considerable funds, and applying the income to education and other charitable objects.
		Harry was a strong influence on the affairs of the Company and thereby contributed greatly to the Company’s present reputation and standing in the City.
	www.athelstane.co.uk /hvhodson/memor02.htm (696 words)

	Speech
		The Carpenters' Company ever since it started, and we think it started about 700 years ago, the first written records we have are 1333 but we think it was already in existence some thirty or forty years earlier.
		And in our Company you come onto the Court by seniority, there are some exceptions to this we are perfectly free to vary the order and in the form laid down by the Charter granted by King James the First in 1607.
		Lord Silva, was himself a Liveryman of the Mercers Company and he managed to persuade the government to squash this movement.
	www.ushistory.org /carpentershall/company/ridley.htm (1413 words)

	LMA Learning Zone > schooLMAte > City Communities > Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Under the rules of the Mercers' Company, an apprentice had to serve his master for at least seven years.
		Only men who were freemen of one of the City Companies, like the Mercers' Company, could become freemen of the City itself and so gain the right to vote.
		He was to be chosen as one of the masters of the company on two future occasions, in 1401 and 1408.
	www.cityoflondon.gov.uk /Corporation/lma_learning/schoolmate/City/sm_city_stories_detail.asp?ID=314 (2324 words)

	The London Bridge Museum & Educational Trust (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		From the 14th century onwards the Mercers' Company held its meetings in the Hospital of St Thomas of Acon, a monastery founded about 1220 to commemorate the birthplace of St Thomas Becket.
		Richard Whittington is the most famous member of the Mercers' Company, immortalised as the Dick Whittington of the childhood song "Turn again, Whittington, Lord Mayor of London", a highly romanticised 'rags to riches' tale of a boy and his cat going to London to seek his fortune.
		He was apprenticed to the Mercers' Company, and became a successful Mercer, dealing in valuable imports such as silks and velvets.
	www.oldlondonbridge.com /mrcrs.shtml (663 words)

	Lady Jane Mico and her Almshouse Trust
		It was not until 1817 that it was discovered that, in 1704, Elizabeth Fermor, niece to Samuel Barker of Fairford, Gloucestershire, Sir Samuel Mico's godson, had left part of a rent of a farm at Chaceley, Worcestershire, to the use of the poor widows in Lady Mico's Almshouses.
		In 1854 the Company decided to rebuild and the new Almshouses were completed in 1856 at the cost of £2850.
		Henry Fowell Buxton is a Liveryman of the Mercers' Company, his father having been admitted to the freedom by virtue of his descent from the 18th century Master of the Company.
	www.geocities.com /micogenealogy/ladyjane.html (1430 words)

	The Salters' Company - Useful Information
		Although the livery companies were trade guilds, the name 'livery' actually refers to the members' distinctive dress.
		Henry VIII established an order of precedence to these companies, thus according a title of 'greatness' to only twelve.
		These are, in order: the Mercers', Grocers', Drapers', Fishmongers', Goldsmiths', Skinners', Merchant Taylors', Haberdashers', Salters', Ironmongers', Vintners' and Clothworkers'.
	www.salters.co.uk /company/usefullivery.html (82 words)

	Florilegium urbanum - Religion - Whittington's Charity
		Whittington served as a master of the Mercers' Company in 1395/96, 1401/02, and 1408/09; although less active in the company in later years, his continued association is shown in the bequest towards the company's alms fund and the trust he showed by giving the company an important role in the administration of his almshouse.
		This work was completed, by Carpenter, in 1431, and he then proceeded to transfer the ownership of the endowment property to the Mercers' Company, conditional on the company applying them to its trusteeship of the college and almshouse.
		As a prominent member of both the Mercers' Company, having served as its master in 1417, and of the city administration, John Coventry was well-placed to advocate the support of both groups for Whittington's plans.
	www.trytel.com /~tristan/towns/florilegium/community/cmreli17.html (7775 words)

	Kilrea civil parish county Londonderry, Ireland, Lewis, 1837 description ©Jane Lyons
		A spacious and commodious hotel, and a handsome residence for their agent have recently been erected by the Mercers' Company, of London, who are proprietors of the town and surrounding district.
		A large and handsome market-house is now in progress of erection on the north side of the square, at the expense of the Mercers' company, who have also built a barrack in Bridge-street for the constabalary police.
		The company support 22 schools on their estate, in which together about 1000 children are gratuitously instructed and supplied with books.
	www.from-ireland.net /lewis/derry/kilrea.htm (841 words)

	Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society - Archives
		In 1443 Elias Davy, Citizen of London and Member of the Mercers’ Company, purchased from Richard Crulle, Citizen of London and Bowyer, a parcel of marshland near to Croydon Parish Church for the purpose of providing an almshouse for the poor of Croydon.
		The Mercers’ Company was the premier livery company of London.
		She was buried in the Chapel of the Hospital of St Thomas of Acon, Ironmonger Lane, where the Mercers’ Company held their meetings and Services.
	www.greig51.freeserve.co.uk /cnhss/bull118a.htm (1207 words)

	Caxton's Chaucer - The Merchant
		The Mercers’ Company was a London guild of wholesale merchants.
		Although it is no longer a guild of merchants, the Mercers’ Company is still in existence, and several of the documents relating to Caxton are still in its archives.
		He was one of the four annual Wardens of the Mercers’ Company in 1427, Sheriff of London in 1430 and, in 1439, he was Lord Mayor.
	www.bl.uk /treasures/caxton/prtcaxmerchant.html (465 words)

	001 - The Mercers' Company
		The Company's earliest ordinances are dated 1347 and it received its first royal charter in 1394.
		In 1698 the Mercers made the first attempt to run a life assurance scheme, but in 1745 they had to hold a lottery to meet their commitments and the scheme was abandoned.
		At the Dissolution the hospital was disbanded, and in 1542 the Company bought the rest of the buildings for £969.
	www.heraldicmedia.com /site/info/livery/livcomps/mercers.html (593 words)

	Old Pauline Lodge - School History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Colet entrusted the government of his school, and the management of its finances, to the Mercers’ Company.
		Relations between the Mercers’ Company and the High Masters were sometimes stormy.
		The Mercers inspected the school annually, at Apposition (a ceremony that continues to this day) and claimed the right to dismiss or reappoint the staff in accordance with their findings on that occasion.
	www.stormpages.com /oldpauline/School.htm (1720 words)

	London Military Levies 1509-1603 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Equipment was either purchased by companies or provided by individual members and although the troops were not dispatched, the equipment was used in the two later levies of January 1558 and has been accounted for on the later levies.
		On 27 June the wardens of the twelve leading companies were instructed to prepare men for assembly at Bridgehouse on Saturday 1 July; they mustered before the lord mayor in the duke of Suffolk's park in Southwark and St George's Fields, and then before the queen at Greenwich on 2 July.
		Company sources make it clear that there were two levies of 6d in £ goods and 9d in £ lands, in addition to the 1.5 subsidies provided for ships.
	senior.keble.ox.ac.uk /fellows/extrapages/iarcher/levies.htm (13154 words)

	WCIT - The Founding Charter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Livery Companies were the first form of Trade Association, with a strong emphasis on preserving knowledge and skills for future generations and caring for the less fortunate.
		Members of the Company are certainly valued for their worth as tradesmen, but the granting of livery also signifies recognition for the very important role that the Company must play in maintaining the City of London as a world centre for international business.
		In the founding Charter the Company was granted permission to admit a maximum of 300 freemen to the Livery, and the number of Liverymen is now approaching this figure.
	www.wcit.org.uk /home/page2.htm (379 words)

	On City Companies
		The City companies are above eighty in number, and vary very much in date of existence, in importance, in their Halls, in the number of their members.
		The Mercers founded the Trinity Almshouses for old sailors, of which Besant gives such a charming description in "All Sorts and Conditions of men"; we fear that this year is to see those quaint old houses demolished.
		The Mercers (4, Ironmonger Lane) have an ancient gateway which contains a shutter, in the form of a portcullis; it is elaborately carved, and in fair preservation.
	www.amblesideonline.org /PR/PR08p039CityCompanies.shtml (2081 words)

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		MERCERS' HALL, AND CHEAPSIDE [Illustration: Mercers' Hall, and Cheapside] The engraving is an interesting illustration of the architecture of the metropolis in the seventeenth century, independent of its local association with names illustrious in historical record.
		The whole pile was destroyed in the great fire, but was very handsomely rebuilt by the Mercers' Company, who have their Hall here.
		Attached to the original foundation or hospital was a grammar-school, which has been subsequently continued at the expense of the Mercers' Company, though not on the same spot.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/11516/11516-8.txt (8986 words)

	Sherington Historical Society - Village Tour - 9 Crofts End
		Mercers Farm is one of the oldest buildings in the village.
		On the enclosure map of 1796 Mercers Farm was owned by the Mercers Company.
		From the Mercers Company the farm was sold to the Jefferson family and Jack Cook purchased it from the Jefferson's.
	www.mkheritage.co.uk /shhs/tour9.htm (480 words)

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