Most single women worked in domestic service, farm labour, or lowly occupations not covered by gild restrictions, though borough laws often sought to prevent spinsters from living and working independently.
In three of the four cases the gilds had little or no direct political voice, and the government acted early and decisively against the spread of evangelical ideas.
These large, gilded bronze statues must have made a startling impact, and may have helped to achieve the evident aim of identifying the urban elite with this highly charged location.
These barges are called ' 'flower boats,' ' a name they derive from the elegant and ornamental style in which they are fitted up, and carried and gilded.
The boundaries between the different crafts which constituted the gild were deliberately imprecise, allowing craftsmen to negotiate constantly with other members of the gild in the production of art.
Its tone fits in much more easily with the generally hostile attitude displayed by the crown towards the gilds as evidenced by the 1389 survey and the 1548 dissolution.
A network of meanings led to "inhibition" becoming a valued word in physiological science, and this network then provided a ready home for a "popularized" usage gilded with scientific authority.
In this respect, the article has a wider significance to urban historians for the understanding of the nature of gilds and the position of gilds within the world of work.
