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THE GIANTS OF GUILDHALL. 263
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L.—THE GIANTS OF GUILDHALL.
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Not unaptly does Social Science this yea...
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Ladies, Tlie Debate In The House Of Comm...
and to be useful in them . Let them , after their efficiency has been duly tested , be recognised assistantsand all real impediments will
be removed . The additional changes , here suggested are sinall , but I believe that they will be the means of affording aid to the portion
of the population as yet unaided , and respecting whom there has been so much difficulty . Let the principle be borne in mind that
the Parliamentary Grant should be so administered as to help those who cannot help themselvesinstead of those who can' and will
, obtain education whether they have help or not . Let us then fairly and fully test the new systemand if it does notafter trialmeet
the existing wants of the nation , , use every effort to , have the system , placed on an entirely new footing .
I remain , Ladies , yours sincerely , Mary Caepentee .
_Bristol , May _Sth , 1862 .
The Giants Of Guildhall. 263
THE GIANTS OF GUILDHALL . 263
L.—The Giants Of Guildhall.
L . —THE GIANTS OF GUILDHALL .
Not Unaptly Does Social Science This Yea...
Not unaptly does Social Science this year take up its tenrporary abode in the Guildhall of London ; which ancient building , dating
from the reign of Henry IV . and the year 1411 , _incorjDorates , as it were , the story of our laws and of our commerce from age to
age . Its name is derived from the Saxon gilden , to pay ; because every man belonging to the fraternity or company called a Guild
was bound to pay something towards its charge and support . As , to the companies themselvesthe origin assigned to them is that of
, embryo Peace Societies . It was a law among the Saxons that every freeman of fourteen years old should find sureties to keep
the peace or be committed—the presumption being that he would not keep the peace ! Thereupon associations of ten families were
formed , who became bound for each other , and paid fines out of a common stock . Such appears to have been the signification of the
word in the Saxon country ; its adoption in England in the coramercial sense is given to the seventh century , when we are told it
came into general use in many parts of Europe . From thence forward we find merchant guildsand guilds for all manner of
, trades and manufactures . Each of these had their own halls ; such as that of the
Goldsmiths , in Foster Lane , _Cheapgide , of the Fishmongers , near London Bridgewhich are only two out of the twelve great Companies of
London , . The Guildhall , par excellence , is the court of judicature for the City , to which the different companies each subscribed liberally , "
while the generosity of individuals assisted in its decoration . The executors of Whittington paved the great hall , with " hard stone
6 f Purbeek . " Divers Aldermen contributed . to the glazing' and
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1862, page 263, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061862/page/47/
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