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  2. Guild - Wikipedia

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    The medieval guild was established by charters or letters patent or similar authority by the city or the ruler and normally held a monopoly on trade in its craft within the city in which it operated: handicraft workers were forbidden by law to run any business if they were not members of a guild, and only masters were allowed to be members of a ...

  3. Guilds of Florence - Wikipedia

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    The guilds, medieval institutions that organized every aspect of a city's economic life, formed a social network that complemented and in part compensated for family ties, although in Florence the welfare side of the guilds' activities was less than in many cities. [2]

  4. Merchant's mark - Wikipedia

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    A selection of merchants' marks used by medieval merchants of the City of Norwich, England Merchant's mark of Thomas Horton (d. 1530), wool merchant of Iford, Wiltshire, used on English woollens sent to Flanders. Engraved on his monumental brass c.1520 in Holy Trinity Church, Bradford-on-Avon

  5. Mason's mark - Wikipedia

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    Mason's marks above engravings on Brunnenturm's portal in Zürich. Regulations issued in Scotland in 1598 by James VI's Master of Works, William Schaw, stated that on admission to the guild, every mason had to enter his name and his mark in a register.

  6. Knighten Guilde - Wikipedia

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    The Knighten Guilde or Cnichtengild, which translates into modern English as the Knight's Guild, was an obscure Medieval guild of the City of London.According to A Survey of London by John Stow (1603), it was in origin an order of chivalry founded by the Saxon king Edgar for loyal knights.

  7. Merchant Adventurers' Hall - Wikipedia

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    The Borthwick Institute for Archives at the University of York holds photocopies of many of the medieval deeds, account rolls, rentals, and of Guild minutes for the period 1677–1985. [7] From 1918, the Company appointed Maud Sellers as an honorary archivist of its historical material - Sellers was a historian with an interest in the site and ...

  8. History of heraldry - Wikipedia

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    Heraldry developed in the high medieval period, based on earlier, "pre-heraldic" or "ante-heraldic", traditions of visual identification by means of seals, field signs, emblems used on coins, etc. Notably, lions that would subsequently appear in 12th-century coats of arms of European nobility have pre-figurations in the animal style of ancient ...

  9. Guild of Saint Luke - Wikipedia

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    In the medieval period most members in most places were probably manuscript illuminators, where these were in the same guild as painters on wood and cloth—in many cities they were joined with the scribes or "scriveners". In traditional guild structures, house-painters and decorators were often in the same guild.

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