Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society (1883) (14581926697)

Identifier: transactionsofbr8188bris (find matches)
Title: Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. cn
Subjects: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Publisher: Bristol, Eng. : The Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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e town a charter for a merchant gild, for theencouragement of trade by the execution of the Statute Merchant. Butthis charter after a long suit in the Exchequer was decreed to be cancelled. He observed that possibly the Weavers Gild dates from the fourteenthcentury, but all the returns concerning the Cirencester Gilds made in thereign of Richard II. have perished with the exception of that relating to theTrinity Gild, printed in Mr. Fullers History of Cirencester Church, page 12.At any rate there was here a Gild of Weavers at least as early as the reignof Edward IV. or Richard III., when Sir William Nottingham, Chief Baron ofthe Exchequer, founded a hall for them, with four habitations for the poorersort of that fraternity, by the name of St. Thomas Hospital, and endowedit by his will with a small revenue. King Philip and Queen Mary grantedthem a charter, which was recited and confirmed by Queen Elizabeth, in thecharter of the Weavers Company, in the 8th year of her reign (1565). <
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The Weavers Hall. 185 The Charity Commissioners Report states : Sir William Nottingham,by his will dated 1st September, 1483, directed his trustees to convey certainproperty to the persons therein named, for the use, profit, and maintenanceof four poor men dwelling in a certain house lately built by him in Cirences-ter, in a street called Battle Street, and for the use of them who after hisdecease should dwell in that house, being chosen by the Wardens of theWeavers Company in Cirencester, and their successors. There is an ancient stone building in St. Thomas Street, called St.Thomas Hospital, supposed to be the house originally built for this charityby Sir William Nottingham. The lands belonging to the Hospital, worth in 1550 <£15 8s. 9d. a year,were granted in 1581 to the Earl of Leicester, who re-granted them that sameyear; and two years later, these lands again changed hands by sale, the£6 18s. 8d. payable to the four alms-folks being charged as reserved rent. The company the