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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Chapter 1 In London under James I
Chapter 2 Gild Governance I
Chapter 3 Gild Governance II
Chapter 4 Freemen of the Future
Chapter 5 Sources of Income
Chapter 6 Public Service and Private Interest
Chapter 7 Strangers and Settlers
Chapter 8 Two Early Inventions
Chapter 9 A Time of Conflict and Calamity
Chapter 10 Building Anew
Chapter 11 Pageantry and Good Cheer
Chapter 12 Worthy Benefactors and Charitable Gifts
Chapter 13 A New Charter and By-laws
Chapter 14 Daniel Defoe and the Calico Madams
Chapter 15 Special Treatment for Spitalfields
Chapter 16 An Early-Victorian Lord Mayor
Chapter 17 Change of Pattern I
Chapter 18 Change of Pattern II
Chapter 19 Mid-Twentieth Century
Appendix 1 A. ‘An Inventory of the Plate, . . . etc. in Weavers’ Hall, London, belonging to that Company’ (October 1677)
B. An Annotated List of the Company’s Plate, Alms Box, Officers’ Badges, etc. (September 1969)
Appendix 2 A. ‘The Condition of the Silk Weaving Trade’ (1838), by ‘A Weaver’
B. Trices Paid for [Narrow Silk] Weaving . . .’ (Comparison, 1824 and 1839)
C. Trices Paid for Broad Silk Weaving in 1824 and 1839’
D. ‘Political Opinions of the Weavers’ and ‘On Societys’, by ‘A Weaver’
3 The Condition of the Hand-loom Weavers (1840 Report: Appendix, Report of Commissioner W. E. Hickson)
4 Charities Administered by the Weavers’ Company (1969)
5 A List of the Upper Bailiffs of the Weavers’ Company from 1600 to 1970
Glossary: Silk fabrics and other materials
Source Materials
Index
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