gildsman

The individual gildsman had as little opportunity to emancipate himself from the controlling force of the association as the individual tenant on the rural manor had to free himself from the customary agriculture and the customary services.

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"And when a gildsman dies, all those who are of the gild and are in the city shall attend the service for the dead, and gildsmen shall bear the body and bring it to the place of burial."

An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England Edward Potts Cheyney 1904

Similarly at Leicester, in 1260, it was ordained that no gildsman should form a partnership with a stranger, allowing him to join in the profits of the sale of wool or other merchandise.

An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England Edward Potts Cheyney 1904

For instance, we find the provision that "any one who is of the gild merchant may share in all merchandise which another gildsman shall buy."

An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England Edward Potts Cheyney 1904

It is provided in one set of statutes that, "If a gildsman be imprisoned in

An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England Edward Potts Cheyney 1904