The influence and development of English gilds

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Cambridge Historical Essays. No. V.
THE INFLUENCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF ENGLISH GILDS:
AS ILLUSTRATED BY THE HISTORY OF THE CRAFT GILDS OF SHREWSBURY.
BY FRANCIS AIDAN HIBBERT, B.A., OF ST JOHN’S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE; ASSISTANT MASTER IN DENSTONE COLLEGE.
THIRLWALL DISSERTATION , 1891.
Cambridge: PRINTED BY C. J. CLAY, M.A. AND SONS, AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
TO THE REV. D. EDWARDES, M.A., HEAD MASTER OF DENSTONE, IN REMEMBRANCE OF MUCH KINDNESS AND ENCOURAGEMENT.

I should explain that, in the present Essay, I have restricted myself to associations which had for their object the regulation of trade. Frith Gilds and Religious or Social Gilds have received only passing notice.
The Merchant Gild is too wide a subject to be treated in an Essay such as this. Moreover the records of the Shrewsbury Merchant Gild are too meagre to afford much information, and I would therefore have gladly passed over the whole question in silence but that without some notice of it the Essay would have seemed incomplete.
My attention has thus been concentrated on the Craft Gilds, and on the later companies which arose out of these.