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XXXV. On an Amity formed between the Companies of Fishmongers and Goldsmiths of London, and a consequent Participation of their Coat-armour. By John Gough Nichols, Esq. F.S.A.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 June 2012
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The constitution and regulations of ancient guilds and commercial fraternities afford a subject which, it has been admitted, is deserving of greater investigation than it has hitherto received, as a branch of the social history of our ancestors. It is evident that they were institutions in the nature of benefit societies, affording a community of religious as well as secular advantages, and bound together by private laws to maintain the interests and the mysteries of their crafts. Though usually in large cities confined to the members of a particular trade, a guild sometimes comprehended the workmen of several occupations.
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page 500 note a Herbert's Hist, of the Twelve Companies, 8vo. 1837, vol. ii. p. 12.
page 500 note b Ibid. p. 320.
page 501 note d Herbert, ii. 205.
page 502 note e Herbert, vol. ii. p. 213.
page 502 note f MS. of Maurice Price, transcribed by Ro. E. in 1656–7, in the possession of Mr. Henry Gwyn, Heraldic Artist, p. 62.
page 503 note g This pageant I have recently had the pleasure to re-edit, in order to accompany fac-simile prints of the original Roll of drawings of the Pageants prepared for this solemnity, which is still preserved at Fishmongers' Hall.
page 504 note h There are no grounds for believing any association or division of labour between the two Companies, as Munday seems to intimate, with respect to these Gates. The truth is, that Moorgate was first erected in 1415, when Thomas Faulconer, Fishmonger, was Mayor; and Cripplegate was rebuilt from a legacy left by Edmund (not William) Shaw, Goldsmith, who was Mayor in 1483. See Maitland's History of London, 1775, vol. i. pp. 24, 25.
page 505 note i Herbert, ii. 216; where the word “coupe ” is misinterpreted cape instead of cup.
page 506 note j Herbert, ii. 175.
page 507 note k Fabyan's Chronicle.
page 507 note l Arms of Lord Mayors and Sheriffs, MS. by William Smyth, Rouge Dragon, in the possession of J. B. Nichols, esq. F.S. A.: dedicated to Sir Thomas Lowe, lord mayor in 1605: also his working copy, MS. Harl. 1349, fol. 63. Another family of Gloucester bore, Gules, three salmons hauriant argent, allusive, as Moule supposes (Heraldry of Fish, p. 112), to the produce of the river Severn.
page 507 note m MS. Harl. 1096, fol. 114. “On an old Tombe ” at “St. Mary Mounthall.”
page 508 note n The famous Sir William Walworth, a Fishmonger, bore for arms Gules, a bend raguly between two garbs. He was Lord Mayor in 1374 and 1381.
page 508 note o MS. Lansdowne, 874, fol. 8.
page 510 note p Transcript by John Withy.
page 510 note q Edmondson's Heraldry.
page 511 note r Glover's Ordinary.
page 511 note s MS. Lansdowne, 874, f. 117b.
page 511 note t Dugdale's St. Paul's.
page 511 note u Information of the Rev. T. Streatfeild, F.S.A.
page 511 note x Hist, of Surrey, ii. 358; Aubrey, iii. 59.
page 512 note y Hist, of Surrey, ii. 274.
page 512 note z See Hist, of Surrey, Introduction, vol. i. p. liv. In vol. ii. 273, the reign is mis-stated “Edw. I.” instead of Edw. III., and also the shrievalty of John de Hadresham as “1397” instead of 1379.
page 512 note a Inq. post mort. 5 Henry V.
page 513 note b “The quene was conveyed unto London, agayne whom the cytezyns upon the nombre of vi. C rode in one lyverey of rede and whyte, with the conysaunce(s) of dyvers mysteries browderyd upon theyr slevys.”—Fabyan's Chronicle.