[214] Ibid., p. 1039.
[215] J.H.C., xl., p. 1026.
[216] Ibid., pp. 1017-1018.
[217] Ibid., p. 1020.
[218] The hawkers and pedlars of London and Westminster stated that they composed part of a body which numbered 1400 in England alone (ibid., p. 1007).
[219] The year 1623 marks an important date in this connection. Unwin, ibid., p. 190, also The Gilds and Companies of London, ch. xvii. Professor W. R. Scott’s Joint-Stock Companies to 1720, is a storehouse of fundamental facts relating to the economic history of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
[220] One described as dyer and printer.
[221] One described as manufacturer and printer.
[222] Two described as fustian silk and linen manufacturers.
[223] One described as silk and smallware manufacturer, two as silk throwsters, and one as throwster and dyer.