The Antiquarian Magazine & Bibliographer; Vol. 4, July-Dec 1884Various
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The Antiquarian Magazine & Bibliographer; Vol. 4, July-Dec 1884
Various
Archaeology -- Periodicals; Great Britain -- Antiquities -- Periodicals
And here the hero’s bones rested till the Tyrant King scattered all such
precious relics to the winds. His body has _not_ been allowed to rest in
peace, but his “name liveth for evermore.” Nor is Arthur’s fame confined
to England alone, for amongst the figures that keep watch and ward round
Maximilian’s tomb at Innspruck is one of the patriot king, and an
exquisite photograph of him in armour, as he is there portrayed, faces
the writer as this attempt to show the connection of Arthur’s most
heroic deeds with her own native county is being penned.
It only remains to add that the authorities for the above remarks are,
Gildas, Geoffry of Monmouth, William of Malmesbury, Giraldus Cambrensis,
Mallory’s “King Arthur,” Leland, Drayton’s “Polyolbion,” Speed, and
Camden, “The Greatest of the Plantagenets,” and “Our Ancient Monuments
and the Land around Them,” by C. P. Haines-Jackson, and lastly oral
legend.
The History of Gilds.
BY CORNELIUS WALFORD, F.S.S., _Barrister-at-Law_.
_PART IV._
(_Continued from p. 235._)
CHAPTER XXXVI.--_Gilds of Norfolk_--(_Continued_).
NORWICH.--The Gilds existing in this important city in 1388-9 were:--
_Fraternity of St. Katerine_, commenced in 1307.--All the members of the
Gild were to go in procession on the day of St. Katherine, and make
offerings; penalty on absent members. On the day following, mass, &c.
Burial services to be attended and offerings made--the duties of the
lettered and of the unlettered bretheren and sisteren specifically
defined. Bretheren dying within eight miles of the city to be brought in
for burial, or at least the usual services done. Poor bretheren to be
helped; and causes of quarrel to be laid before the Gild. Fine on
refusal to take office. A liveryhood to be worn, and all the members to
dine together on the Gild-day. Admission of new members only by common
consent. Goods of the Gild enumerated.
_The Tailors’ Gild_, founded 1350.--The Gild to meet together, and the
next day a mass of requiem. The bretheren to obey summons of Alderman to
audit accounts; fine if absent. Meeting after Easter to choose officers,
&c. Payments to be made to sexton and clerk; help to the poor and
maimed. Burial services and offerings, to extend to those dying within
seven miles of the city. Service for those dying abroad. Oath to be
taken by Gild-members. Alderman to be chosen. At meetings a candle to be
kept alight, and a prayer said. A summoner to be chosen, and requited by
quittance of the usual payments. A fee of 1d. to be paid to the Bedel on
entrance to the Gild. The Gild had no land, but was maintained by the
charges levied under the Ordinances.
_Gild of St. Mary_, commenced in 1360.--It was of the Religious type.
The bretheren and sisteren of the Gild, as long as there should be
twelve of them living, were to provide a candle and torches, to be used
on certain festivals named “in wyrschipe of crist and his moder.” There
is a note of the masters of the Gild and of the property in hand.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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