Guilds, Society and Economy in London 1450-1800

List of Plates, Figures and Tables

List of Abbreviations

Contributors

Preface by Stephen Freeth

1 Introduction
Ian Anders Gadd and Patrick Wallis

2 The Livery Companies and Charity in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Ian W. Archer

3 Early Modern Printed Histories of the London Livery Companies 29 Ian Anders Gadd

4 The Adventures of Dick Whittington and the Social Construction of Elizabethan London
James Robertson

5 Governors and Governed: The Practice of Power in the Merchant Taylors’ Company in the Fifteenth Century
Matthew Davies

6 Controlling Commodities: Search and Reconciliation in the Early Modern Livery Companies
Patrick Wallis

7 The Pewterers’ Company’s Country Searches and the Company’s Regulation of Prices
Ronald F. Homer

8 Search, Immigration and the Goldsmiths’ Company: A Study in the Decline of its Powers
John Forbes

9 Informality and Influence: The Overseas Merchant and the Livery Companies, 1660–1720
Perry Gauci

10 The Shaping of a Family Trade: The Cordwainers’ Company in Eighteenth-Century London
Giorgio Riello

RESPONSES:

11 Guildwork
Mark Jenner

12 Livery Companies: What, When and Why?
Derek Keene

13 Livery Companies and the World Beyond the Metropolis
Joseph P. Ward

Paperback: 9781871348651 / 214 pages / 244mm x 170mm

Ian Anders Gadd (Author)

Patrick Wallis (Author)

Subject: British and Irish History, History

BISAC codes: HIS000000

Thema codes: NHB, NHTB

Keywords: British merchants, Charities, Early modern London, Economic history, Market regulation, The Livery Companies, freemen