'Twelve companies called misteries' in J Brand, History and Antiquities of the Town and County of Newcastle upon Tyne; including an account of the coal trade of that place ...
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- Author(s) Brand, John
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 1789
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- Publisher B White & Son
- Place Published London
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Short accounts of the individual companies at Newcastle - 'merchants of woollen cloth alias drapers'; mercers; skinners; tailors, saddlers; bakers and brewers; tanners; butchers; smiths; fullers and dyers. Also details of fifteen 'Companies called by-trades' - master mariners; weavers; barber chirurgeons and chandlers; cutlers; shipwrights; coopers; masons; glovers; milners or millers; colliers, paviours and carriage men'. Also details of companies 'not of the 15' - goldsmiths; scriveners; bricklayers; ropemakers; upholsterers, tinplate workers and stationers; salimakers. Also extinct companies