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Author: Matthew Davies Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1351543636 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 659
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One of the 'Great Twelve' livery companies of the City of London, the Merchant Taylors' Company has been in existence for some seven hundred years. This new history will chart the remarkable story of the Company and its members from its origins until the 1950s, encompassing the lives and achievements of men such as Sir Thomas White (founder of St John's College, Oxford) and the celebrated chronicler, John Stow, as well as the roles played by the Company in the City and beyond in different periods. As well as looking in detail at the internal life of the Company, the book will also focus on a number of important themes in the wider history of London. These include trade and industry, apprenticeship, the impact of religious change, the foundation of schools and other charities, and the government and politics of the City. In doing so, the book will contribute to an understanding of the aims and activities of the livery companies over the centuries, their ability to adapt to changing circumstances and their relevance in a modern world far removed from that in which they were first established. The History of the Merchant Taylors' Company will appeal to a wide range of people interested in the history of London. It is fully illustrated with more than seventy-five black and white and thirty colour illustrations.
Author: Matthew Davies Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1351543636 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 659
Book Description
One of the 'Great Twelve' livery companies of the City of London, the Merchant Taylors' Company has been in existence for some seven hundred years. This new history will chart the remarkable story of the Company and its members from its origins until the 1950s, encompassing the lives and achievements of men such as Sir Thomas White (founder of St John's College, Oxford) and the celebrated chronicler, John Stow, as well as the roles played by the Company in the City and beyond in different periods. As well as looking in detail at the internal life of the Company, the book will also focus on a number of important themes in the wider history of London. These include trade and industry, apprenticeship, the impact of religious change, the foundation of schools and other charities, and the government and politics of the City. In doing so, the book will contribute to an understanding of the aims and activities of the livery companies over the centuries, their ability to adapt to changing circumstances and their relevance in a modern world far removed from that in which they were first established. The History of the Merchant Taylors' Company will appeal to a wide range of people interested in the history of London. It is fully illustrated with more than seventy-five black and white and thirty colour illustrations.
Author: Charles Mathew Clode Publisher: Legare Street Press ISBN: 9781020285752 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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This book is a comprehensive history of the Merchant Taylors' Company, one of the oldest livery companies in London. The author provides detailed information on the early history of the company, including its origins and its role in the development of the city of London. The book also includes biographical information on some of the company's most prominent members, making it an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the history of London or the Merchant Taylors' Company. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Charles Mathew Clode Publisher: ISBN: 9781332542079 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 438
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Excerpt from The Early History of the Guild of Merchant Taylors of the Fraternity of St. John the Baptist, London, Vol. 1 of 2: With Notices of the Lives of Some of Its Eminent Members My Dear Master, I may perhaps in a few lines addressed to you explain to others who may be interested in the subject how it is that this work has been written for the Company. Some months since the issue of the "Memorials," which were printed for the Company in 1875, came to an end, the copies that were taken off having been distributed. It then became a question whether that publication should be reprinted with such additional information as was available, or whether the materials which it contained should be made the basis of the "Early History of the Company." The latter appeared to me to be the better course for two, not to mention other, reasons - one, not the least important, that it would be far less expensive, and the other that a connected history would present to the reader a more intelligible outline of the Company than the "Memorials." Therefore I have written the history which is to be found in Part I of this volume. But Part II has been written from other inducements. It had long been felt by some of us to be a subject of regret - if not of reproach - that so little was known by the guildsmen of the present day of those guildsmen of earlier days, who were great benefactors, founders of schools, and liberal providers for the poor much of whose time must have been passed in the hall premises, and whose munificence can be best illustrated from our archives. When, therefore, the information that was available for the life of Bichard Hilles came under my notice not long since, I prepared a sketch of his life and letters. In doing so, I came upon other materials which had reference to Sir Thomas White, and these I proceeded to incorporate with it as one memoir of these two guildsmen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Matthew Davies
Author: Matthew Davies
Author: Charles Mathew Clode
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Author: Richard Barrie Dobson
Author: Charles Mathew Clode
Author: Charles Mathew Clode
Author: Charles Mathew Clode
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