Now! Then! 2024! - Yorkshire On This Day

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The corporation authorised the persons practising the following trades in the borough to be incorporated as guilds, or fraternities, for the better prevention of frauds and abuses in the several branches of each trade: cloth-workers, mercers, grocers, salters, drapers, millwrights, carpenters, joiners, plasterers, coopers, bricklayers, cordwainers, tailors, ironmongers, smiths, glaziers, cutlers, pewterers.

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I could do with some background to what seems to my tiny mind an anachronistic step – e.g. the London Worshipful Company of Clothworkers is essentially a 15th century invention. But France, with which Charles II’s party was familiar:

In France, a resurgence of the guilds in the second half of the 17th century is symptomatic of Louis XIV and Jean Baptiste Colbert’s administration’s concerns to impose unity, control production, and reap the benefits of transparent structure in the shape of efficient taxation.

Perhaps it is about exerting municipal power in a grey area.

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Original

The Corporation, on the 8th of November in this year, by their order, authorised the persons practising the following trades in the Borough, to be incorporated as Guilds, or Fraternities, for the better prevention of frauds and abuses in the several branches of each trade: clothworkers, mercers, grocers, salters, drapers, millwrights, carpenters, joiners, plasterers, coopers, bricklayers, cordwainers, tailors, ironmongers, smiths, glaziers, cutlers, pewterers.

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