Note 764 — Chapter XIV

In the list given in English Guilds there is one guild founded in 1307 and ten (or eleven, if we count the masons’ guild on p. 39) founded between 1350 and 1385, some of them craft guilds, others nominally social or religious associations, though it is very probable that in many cases this was but a thin disguise for a craft guild. English Guilds, 14, etc.