The Gild Merchant : a Contribution to British Municipal History
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202 Ci)e (SilD a^ercljant. [app. d. ations (i. e. crafts), conveneries of crafts ^ seals of cause ^ by which the crafts were incorporated, etc. We shall soon see that the general development of the Gild Merchant and crafts forms a striking point of divergence in the municipal history of the two countries. There are two periods in the growth of the Scotch Gild Merchant or Gildry. The first comprehends the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth centuries, during which its history did not differ grea...tly from that of the English Gild Merchant. The second period extends from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century, and is marked by a bitter conflict between the Gildry and the crafts. The Gild Merchant or Gildry of Scotch towns first comes to view in the reign of David I (i 1 24-11 53) ^ It must have been a common feature of the royal burghs of Scotland in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries *. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries ' 'In many burghs there exists an aggregate body composed of representa- tives of the different [craft] corporations, called the Convenery, or Convener's Court.
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