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| This Company was incorporated as a brotherhood, or guild, by Henry the , in the year , under the appellation of the Fraternity of St. Katherine the Virgin, of the Haberdashers of the City of London.
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364 | haberdashers, which had made choice of St. Nicholas as its patron; and it seems probable that both brotherhoods were united previously to the of Henry the , when this company received a confirmation by the title of the master and four wardens of the fraternity of the art or mystery of Haberdashers,
&c. and its members were styled merchant haberdashers. The more ancient name of these traders was hurriers and milainers, the from dealing in hats and caps, the latter from their dealing in merchandize chiefly imported from the city of Milan in Italy.
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| The business of the haberdashers made but little progress in London, till after the extension of commerce in the reign of queen Elizabeth. In the time of her immediate predecessor, there were scarcely more than a dozen of their shops in the whole city; yet within years after (about ) they had greatly increased, and we are told, though doubtless with some considerable exaggeration, that the whole street from Westminster , was crowded with them.
The haberdashers of that age appear to have been dealers in most of the minor articles of foreign manufacture, and their shops made such a gay appearance,
that many persons were thence induced to commence an extravagant expenditure. marvel no man taketh heed to it,
said a writer in Elizabeth's days, in reference to the circumstance just stated, what number of trifles cometh hither from beyond the seas, that we might either clean spare, or else make them within our own realm; for which we either pay inestimable treasure every year, or else exchange substantial wares and necessaries for them, for the which we might receive great treasure.
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| Among the wares which constituted a part of the haberdashery of that period, were, daggers, swords, owches, broaches, aiglets, Spanish girdles, French cloths, Milan caps, glasses, painted cruises, dials, tables, cards, balls, puppets, ink-horns, tooth-picks, fine earthern pots, pins and points, hawk's bells, salt-cellars, spoons, knives, and tin dishes.
A yet more curious enumeration of goods vended by the milloners, or haberdashers,
who dwelt at the , within or years after it had been built by sir Thomas Gresham, occurs in Howe, who says, they sould mouse-trappes, bird-cages, shooing-hornes, lanthorns, and Jew's trumpes.
The article pins, before the introduction of which, the English ladies are stated to have used points or skewers made of thorns, &c. to fasten their garments with, formed a very lucrative branch of trade; and annually, is said to have been paid for them to foreigners in the early years of queen Elizabeth; yet long before the decease of that princess, they were manufactured in great quantities in this country, and in the time of James the , the English artizan exceeded every foreign competitor in the production of this diminutive, though useful article of dress.
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| The Names of the Company of Haberdashers, from the Record in the Chapter-house.
John HardyGregory Conyas
John SympsonHerry Austen
Thomas MarburyHerry Beket
Thomas LaweJohn Awoode
David WoderuffJohn Bynkys
John HasilfooteJohn Danyell
Willm. BlankeJohn Edwarde
Thomas GaleJohn Geylward
Robert BaxterJohn Griffithe
Robert RavenJohn David
Thomas HuntlooJohn Ilerd
Edmond ShaaJohn Lame
Thomas BlankJohn Peke
Edward DormerJohn Richardson
Raff WestwodeJohn Rowlys
Thomas CherellJohn Silvester
John StourgeonJohn Smythe
John ClamperdJohn Trice
Thomas OsbourneJohn Yerdely
Nicholas SpakmanJohn Spakman
Mathew DaleLaurence Eliott
Richard AleynLaurence Wilson
Thomas AtwellNicholas Bowman
Willm. CotynghamNicholas Crispyn
Thomas AtkensonNicholas Gower
Garret HynkeNicholas Russell
George TadlowePeter Thorpe
John LounRichard Aberfurthe
James PageRauff Hart
Edward BovereRichard Bukland
Willm. BuknourRichard Cade
John BestonRichard Cawar
George BarnesRichard Costrop
Willm. TaylourRichard Fflower
Willm. OstricheRichard Holland
Richard CrymesRichard Lambard
Robert ClerkRichard Medilton
Thomas HollandRobert Bulle
John YeldameRobert Campion
Willm. BaylbyRobert Danyell
Raff JohnsonRobert Graunt
Richard HarrysRobert Newport
Richard DunRoger Wolthouse
Anthony MarlerThomas Bracy
Stephyn CobbeThomas Hargrave
Martyn CalleyThomas Laurence
Willm. HobsonThomas Porter
Thomas LewiceThomas Ripton
Willm. RooThomas Waldyng
Herry HollandWillm. Bower
Alyssaunder BestWillm. Bland
Bartilmewe AverellWillm. Bulle
Charles HorseleyWillm. Garret
Cristofer CootesWillm. Johnson
Cristofer HarebotellWillm. Kellett
Edmond LoveWillm. Pashemer
Edmond KirkhamWillm. Prest
Edward ButlerWillm. Smythe
Edward HallWillm. Vivyan
Edward MorleyWillm. Vivyan
Edward Thornton
Various free-schools, alms-houses, lectures, and exhibitions, are supported from the funds of this affluent community, whose charitable disbursements are stated to amount to about 3,500l. per annum. The company is governed by a master, four wardens, and a court of about twenty assistants; the livery amounts to between three and four hundred persons.
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Footnotes:
[] Arms granted 1571. [] Howe's Stow's Ann. p. 869. [] Brayley's London, ii. p. 385. |
