Influence of the Guilds
WE begin with the 15th century, when the Guilds were flourishing in all their magnificence, They so dominated every phase of town life that a boy could,be educated by his father’s Company, apprenticed to that Company, taught the trade by the Company, found in work by the Company, feasted once a year by the Company, pensioned by the Company, buried by the Company, and his children cared for by the Company. If he-fell into debt and was sent to a debtors’ prison, the bounties of the Company followed him there. And even if he disgraced himself and was lodged as a common criminal, the Company augmented his meagre rations with something more substantial. This was the degree to which a Guild influenced a workman’s life in the Middle Ages, and, to a similar degree, the Guilds influenced every section of a city’s life-its defence, its charities, its religious observances, in fact, every-
thing, and every person from the City Council down to the slackest workman and the naughtiest apprentice- ("Decline of the Guilds,’ W. G. McClymont, 4YA, November 4).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 127, 28 November 1941, Page 5
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183Influence of the Guilds New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 127, 28 November 1941, Page 5
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