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THE DISTAFF. 33
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The Traveller Mounting Some Steep Ascent...
1 I told that if they would but come , bringing their mystery with them 6 C the _, rich no 3 t onl t yeo y m shoul en w ou they ld no feed t disdain on fa t t bee marry f and their mu daug tton , t but ers
influence to them . ' tha Ev t we thus owe indirec the firs tly t exerted great then impulse , it was given to woman to the ' s i successful was in pursui this t monarch of the Cl ' s rei thing Ar too ts that in E the ngland City . of London
! Guilds It or Companies were re-organized gn ; and borrowing the idea , as it is supposed from the reliious guilds of the timewhich
consisted of brothers and sisters g females were admitted , to the free-I dom of these companies on equ , al terms with men . By the rules of
I I member the Clothworkers who shoul ' Com m pany a an clo y thw w oman kerw as t to previo be " u looked sly a I as , one of- the fraternit arry y for everand , to be assisted and
i made upon one of us ; " only losing her pri , vilege if , becoming a I guild widow , she We should find the re ladies -marry especiall with a person prominen not t belong in the ing C to the
j | | I cloth a o t f presen Drapers - . work t , . a This deale y the word r in Eng cloth ori lish ginall ; " deri y drapperie v y a gnified tive _" " to a in mak French drape er and " meaning ompany di no d t the as ,
s manufac tatutes ture all , t of he that Acts material relating ; and to , the in making an , early of collec clot tion h are of
ha arranged ve been under a speciall the . head y metropolitan of _" Drapery term ; " , thoug since h we it find seem St s ow to
I I London making were allowed . " allusion Among to carry to " these the on the clothiers dra business pers of of Eng th and e land olden to tak and t e apprentices dra , p w omen s of it cified too that
j best w hen t t pall he t m hey ark , s " d and i of ed as b th equal e ey men foll should o respect , wed being at to . t th heir And e particularl grave bu as rial in b have y y business the spe " fraternit the so use in y of w the the ith
recreations every of the craft , was their parallel footing maintained , for that they the presence duly attended of the the lady cit Clothworkers y feasts , thoug was h we made do not quite find so
absence they imperative excused coul fro d Still p m as lead coming that the illn former of to s the or the _Groceresses were de festival lica at te liberty s cond , of who their ition to were partake company as a onl gr y of to when nd the be of
. civic themselves good ch of eer it whenever freely , being they countenanced thought fit to , too do , so in , doing and availed so by
ladies occasion of when some the distinction Prior of ; Christ a record church being presided - preserved at one of one of
Fenk these y feasts ll at his with right Sir . John It is rather Milton singular at his to left find and that my a recent Lady
practice historian of of the the sexes Companies dining writing together in as 1837 " a cur alludes iousroe to this had
almost said indecorous custom , " though he admits it " , must at
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1863, page 33, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091863/page/33/
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