Download or read book The Mercers Hall written by Jean Imray and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mercery of London written by Anne F. Sutton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although mercers have long been recognised as one of the most influential trades in medieval London, this is the first book to offer a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the trade from the twelfth to the sixteenth century. The variety of mercery goods (linen, silk, worsted and small manufactured items including what is now called haberdashery) gave the mercers of London an edge over all competitors. The sources and production of all these commodities is traced throughout the period covered. It was as the major importers and distributors of linen in England that London mercers were able to take control of the Merchant Adventurers and the export of English cloth to the Low Countries. The development of the Adventurers' Company and its domination by London mercers is described from its first privileges of 1296 to after the fall of Antwerp. This book investigates the earliest itinerant mercers and the artisans who made and sold mercery goods (such as the silkwomen of London, so often mercers' wives), and their origins in counties like Norfolk, the source of linen and worsted. These diverse traders were united by the neighbourhood of the London Mercery on Cheapside and by their need for the privileges of the freedom of London. Extensive use of Netherlandish and French sources puts the London Mercery into the context of European Trade, and literary texts add a more personal image of the merchant and his preoccupation with his social status which rose from that of the despised pedlar to the advisor of princes. After a slow start, the Mercers' Company came to include some of the wealthiest and most powerful men of London and administer a wide range of charitable estates such as that of Richard Whittington. The story of how they survived the vicissitudes inflicted by the wars and religious changes of the sixteenth century concludes this fascinating and wide-ranging study.
Download or read book Acts of Court of the Mercers Company 1453 1527 written by Mercers' Company (London, England) and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1936 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a compilation of the minutes of the meetings of the Mercers' Company and the Merchant Adventurers from 1453-1527. The original language and spelling of Middle English have been preserved and the introduction provides important background information on these livery guilds.
Download or read book Betting on Lives written by Geoffrey Wilson Clark and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By examining the rise of life insurance institutions in 18th-century England, this book offers fresh insight into the history of a commercial society learning to apply speculative techniques to the management of risk.
Download or read book The history of the twelve great livery companies of London written by William Herbert and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ancient Halls of the City Guilds written by Thomas Robert Way and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Acts of Court of the Mercers Company 1453 1527 written by Frank D. Watney and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 845 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An edition of the oldest extant manuscript in the series of records entitled Acts of Court of the Mercers' Company.
Download or read book Building written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1066 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book London and Its Environs written by Karl Baedeker (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The City Companies written by Livery Companies of London and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster Borough of Southwark and Parts Adjacent written by John Stow and published by . This book was released on 1733 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Great Fire of London written by Neil Hanson and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2010-01-26 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaim for The Great Fire of London "Popular narrative history at its best, well researched, imaginatively and dramatically written. . . . The author marshals his story and his mass of contemporary quotations with great skill." —Times Literary Supplement "The brilliance of its narrative chapters . . . a marvelous eye for evocative detail. Hanson’s prose is animated by the ferocious energy of the fire and seems to be guided by its inexorable movement. He creates the literary equivalent of the special effects in a disaster movie. . . . A rich mixture of imagination and research." —The Daily Telegraph (London) "He writes with knowledge and verve. As if making a television documentary on a natural disaster, he includes a gripping technical chapter on the mechanism and chemistry of combustion. This works brilliantly. . . . The book gains immeasurably from the author's eye for detail and from his understanding of the beliefs and prejudices of the day. . . . Informative and lively account." —The Sunday Times (London) "The best depiction of the Great Fire seen to date. . . . He manages to describe not only the atmosphere of the event itself, but also the experience of living in seventeenth-century Britain." —Soho Independent "A riveting book for those who like their history with a bit of mystery." —The Brisbane News "A rollicking good yarn." —The Age (Melbourne) "Blends high-class original research with a narrative style that mimics fiction. . . . Horrific subjects have served this man well and he has a knack for plugging into the dark themes that run like molten rivers beneath our social veneer." —New Zealand Herald "Neil Hanson’s descriptions of the inferno are like CNN reports from Kosovo." —Camden New Journal "It's not the technical data which makes the book so riveting though. It's the flair with which Hanson invests his account with qualities usually reserved for novels–narrative drive, persuasive character sketches, vivid scene stealing." —Sunday Star Times (New Zealand)
Download or read book A Dictionary of London written by Henry Andrade Harben and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
