Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
A mercery (mercer's shop) in Brussels. Mercery (from French mercerie, meaning "habderdashery" (goods) or "haberdashery" (a shop trading in textiles and notions) initially referred to silk, linen and fustian textiles among various other piece goods imported to England in the 12th century.
The Magna Carta was negotiated by a member of the Mercers Henry fitz Ailwin, thought a Mercer, was 1st Lord Mayor of London; of mainly English rather than Norman descent, his grandfather Leofstan (c. 1100 –1150) was probably the portreeve of London. The Mercers' Company is based at Mercers' Hall, 6 Frederick's Place in the City of London.
Thomas Egerton (by 1521 – 1590/97) was a London merchant and member of the Worshipful Company of Mercers. He served as Under-Treasurer of the Royal Mint at the Tower of London from 1552 to 1555. In this capacity, he and John Godsalve issued the double-faced shillings of Philip and Mary. However he was held to have unduly profited from a ...
Like other livery companies, it supports the work of the Lord Mayor, the City Corporation and the Sheriffs: Alderman Sir William Russell, Master (2024/25), was the first Lord Mayor of London to serve consecutive terms (2019–21) since the 19th century; [6] HRH the Duke of Edinburgh currently serves on the Haberdashers' Court of Assistants.
The Mercers' School was an independent school in the City of London, England, with a history going back at least to 1542, and perhaps much further. It was operated by the Worshipful Company of Mercers and was closed in 1959.
Mercer Street, London. Mercer Street is a street in the Seven Dials district of Covent Garden, London, England. [1] [2] Mercer Street runs south east to north west from Long Acre to Shaftesbury Avenue, crossing Shelton Street. About two-thirds up, it meets Seven Dials, where it intersects with Monmouth Street, Earlham Street, and Shorts Gardens.
56 Artillery Lane is an 18th-century Grade I listed building in Spitalfields, London. [a] The building is situated in the Artillery Passage, and was merged with the now Grade II listed building 58 Artillery Lane after the Second World War; their combined shop front is one of the oldest in London, and the combined building is used by Raven Row as a free art exhibition centre.
Merchant mark of Richard Whittington, as shown in his portrait c.1590 by Reginald Elstrack. Richard Whittington (c. 1354 – March 1423) of the parish of St Michael Paternoster Royal, [2] City of London, was an English merchant and politician of the late medieval period.