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Ordinances of the 'Weavers Craft'

Catalogue reference: Division within PA 34

What’s it about?

This record is about the Ordinances of the 'Weavers Craft' dating from 1452-3.

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Full description and record details

Reference

Division within PA 34

Title

Ordinances of the 'Weavers Craft'

Date

1452-3

Description

With additional rules in sixteenth century hand; an account book of the Weavers (subsequently Broad-Weavers) and Clothiers Company 1636-1735 and two books of orders and minutes of the Company of Broad Weavers and Clothiers 1659-1915; a note re a meeting of the Company of Broad Weavers and Clothiers 1915.

Arrangement

This accession was previously numbered 1939/1

Held by
Coventry Archives & Research Centre
Language

English

Immediate source of acquisition

This accession was deposited by C. Martin Esq., solicitor, clerk to the Company of Broad Weavers and Clothiers 1939.

Administrative / biographical background

The company was known as the Weavers Craft, Craft of Weavers. Occupation of Weavers, Company and Fellowship of Weavers or Fellowship of Weavers, until 1610-1611; then after merging with the Clothiers Company, with which relationships had previously been poor, (see The Coventry Leet Book 1420-1555, translated and edited by M.D. Harris, Early English Text Society, 1907-13, pp.776-7), the company became the Company and Fellowship of Weavers and Clothiers, Clothiers and Weavers, The Company of Weavers and Clothiers, The Company of Clothiers, The Company and Fellowship of Clothiers, and, from 1730 continuously and infrequently between 1650 and that date, The Company of Broadweavers and Clothiers.

Record URL
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Ordinances of the 'Weavers Craft'