Plasterer, 28 Plymouth, 28 Pointmaker, 39 Police regulations aided by gilds, 65, 108 Pontefract, 28 Poor maintained by Craft Gilds, 33, 47, 80 Portsmouth, 26 Potter, 29 Pre-emption, gildmen's right of, 15 royal right of, 145 Preston, 25 Priest, 29 Privileges of gildsmen, 15, 17, 63, 64, 65 Processions, see Pageants Puritans, 120, 125 Pursers, 39 Pwllheli, 27 Reading, 26, 35 _Recruiting Officer_, 123-4 Reformation, its shock to industry, 3, 6, 77 to gilds, 67 Reform movement fatal to companies, 6, 127 and Show, 127 Religion and trade, 5, 107, 125 Religious Gilds, 60 of Holy Trinity, 59 of S. Winifred, 31, 59-62 frequently connected with trade, 60 Residence not requisite for membership of Merchant Gild, 18 Restoration, 122, 125 Rhuddlan, 27 Richard I., 14, 16, 25 Richard II., 27, 65, 82 Richard III., 28 Richard, Earl of Cornwall, 26 Robert de Belesme, 11 Rochester, 26 Roger de Montgomery, 11, 12 Romans, gilds of, 7 Rowley's Mansion, 80 Rubens, 118 Ruyton, 27 Saddlers, 29, 59, 131 Saffron Walden, 27 Salisbury, 25 _Salopian Journal_, 109 Scarborough, 26 Schools maintained by Gilds, 33 Lancaster, 109 Searcher's duties, 43 Severn, 123 Shearmen, 5, 32, 59, 79, 83, 90, 103, 117, 120-2 Shoemakers, 28, 32, 57, 58 Shrewsbury, its strong individuality, 1 its geographical position, 2 early growth, 2, 3 in Domesday, 11 depressed by Conquest, 11 taken by Henry II., 11 later prosperity, 3 streets and houses, 4 its abbey, 11, 31, 60 castle, 12 peculiarities of its gild history, 5, 40-42 its gild-records, 10, 16 gilds, 4, 36, 58-9 gild hall, 17 gild-chantries, 32, 63, 74, 92 religious gilds, 31, 59-62 Merchant Gild confirmed, 14, 25, 146 incorporation of Craft Gilds, 58-9 early history of, 55-76 Reformation changes, 77-97 obtains monopoly of Welsh cloth trade, 3, 91-7 rivalry with Coventry, 63 in 16th century, 76, 79 with Oswestry in the 17th century, 89-96 with Chester, 92 with London, 92, 124 typical of the 17th century, 4, 122-5 influence of machinery upon, 4 later degeneracy of its companies, 98-112, 129-139 Shrewsbury Show, 113-127, 137 Tensers of, (Appendix 155) and other towns, 147 etymology, 149-150 their fines, 150 status, 152-154 privileges, 147, 155 relations with burgesses, 155 later history, 155 Skinners, 36, 38, 41, 59, 83, 89, 118 Skins, seller of, 29 Smiths, 84, 88, 118 Social Gilds, see Religious Gilds Socialists, 141 Social life changed by newer conditions, 1, 123 Somerset, 67 Southampton, 25 Stafford, Earl of, 27 Stallingers, 148 Stamford, 28, 115 Steen, Widow, 101 Stephen, 24 Stewards, duties of, 42 Stow, 120 Strype, 74 Suffolk, Earl of, 95 Sunderland, 26 Sword Cutler, 28