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The Pinners' and Wiresellers' Book 1462-1511: 44 (London Record Society)
Barbara Megson (Ed.)
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Description for The Pinners' and Wiresellers' Book 1462-1511: 44 (London Record Society)
Hardcover.
The Pinners' and Wiresellers' Book covers the accounts of the medieval craft of the Pinners between 1462 and 1511, prior to and following their meeger with the Wiremongers to form the Wiresellers Company in 1497. It is a most unusual volume since there are no other administrative records surviving from such a lowly craft in medieval London. It reveals how a small craft (some thirty members) struggled to maintain a hall, control working practices, license alien craftsmen and secure prayers for themselves and their families at the house of the Carmelite Friars in Fleet Street and St ... Read more
The Pinners' and Wiresellers' Book covers the accounts of the medieval craft of the Pinners between 1462 and 1511, prior to and following their meeger with the Wiremongers to form the Wiresellers Company in 1497. It is a most unusual volume since there are no other administrative records surviving from such a lowly craft in medieval London. It reveals how a small craft (some thirty members) struggled to maintain a hall, control working practices, license alien craftsmen and secure prayers for themselves and their families at the house of the Carmelite Friars in Fleet Street and St ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
London Record Society
Condition
New
Number of Pages
114
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780900952449
SKU
V9780900952449
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-37
Reviews for The Pinners' and Wiresellers' Book 1462-1511: 44 (London Record Society)
Offers an interesting insight into the workings of a small, somewhat financially strapped, craft guild of the later Middle Ages.
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