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The fourtli lecture to Jtlie. Industrial History class dealt with the subject of ; Towns and Guilds. The (Manor system divided the con miry into selF-oontainedl water-tight compartments and thus made for parochialism of ia primitive 1 and aggravated type. By the endl of the thirteem'ih. century a typical: town (1) was free from manorial control, (2) ■ taxed a.nd governed itself, (3) kept order within its walls. li>> merchant ; guild superintended the_ trade of the town, maintained the privileges of the : guildsmen, and' appointed dates for markets and fairs. Its craft guilds ordered how and iby whom goodis should be made and sold and inspected! and supervised the industries. Traders who did not belong to the guild were subject •':<) all manner of tolls and exactions to safeguard tfhle tradie rightis of the guiklsirtion and to induce him to join the guild. The price of goods wan determined by usage and regulation and not by the law of supply and donuuidl as now. Koxt Wednesday the subject will be the development of trade and commerce.
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 3 September 1918, Page 2
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