gild

The growing exclusiveness of the merchant gild led to the great insurrection of 1312.

The first documentary evidence of the existence of the merchant gild appears in 1242.

The Merchant Gild is too wide a subject to be treated in an Essay such as this.

Bearing this in mind, deviations—apparent or real—from the ordinary course of Gild history will cause us no surprise.

The chief distinction indeed between town and country lay in the fact that the former had a Merchant Gild.