Description
Table of contents
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