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In Amsterdam, seamstresses acquired an independent guild in 1579. In several other cities of the Netherlands, they obtained subordinate positions in the tailors' guilds during the late 17th and 18th centuries. [54] Frenchwomen provided vocational training to apprentices. In apprenticeship contracts the names and trades of spouses would both ...
The Guild, Preston, a grade II listed public house in Preston, England; The Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities, a network of European research universities; The Guild, short common name of the Church of Scotland Guild (formerly the Woman's Guild) S-25 Berkut (NATO reporting name SA-1 "Guild"), a Soviet surface-to-air missile system
It includes guilds of merchants and other trades, both those relating to specific trades, and the general guilds merchant in Glasgow and Preston. No religious guilds survive, and the guilds of freemen in some towns and cities are not listed. Almost all guilds were founded by the end of the 17th century, although some went out of existence and ...
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The Knighten Guilde or Cnichtengild, which translates into modern English as the Knight's Guild, was an obscure Medieval guild of the City of London. According to A Survey of London by John Stow (1603), it was in origin an order of chivalry founded by the Saxon king Edgar for loyal knights.
Guild of the Fraternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the house of St Thomas the Martyr Carpenters' Hall at Audeon's arch 1508 (Charter, 23 Henry VII) 3 The hall at Audeon's Arch was the headquarters of the Carpenters' Guild, who then allowed other guilds to use it.
The Oxford English Dictionary [5] says that the word cordwainer is archaic, "still used in the names of guilds, for example, the Cordwainers' Company"; but its definition of cobbler mentions only mending, [5] reflecting the older distinction. Play 14 of the Chester Mystery Plays was presented by the guild of corvisors, known to mean shoemakers ...