The ruling committees of the trade-guilds made regulations and generally governed their particular trades.
The masters had got the control of the guilds into their own power.
The plays, however, did not always provoke pleasure, for sometimes members of some of the guilds complained of the financial burden they were forced to bear in order to produce the plays allotted to them.
The rulers of the city and of the guilds were often the same men, in any case usually men of the same set.
While maintaining the original outward appearance of the guilds as societies of men affected by the same interests in daily life, the employers had actually become a powerful vested class that ruled both city and guild life.
Moreover, disputes between theguilds themselves gave the city authority opportunities of increasing its power, of which it availed itself.
The guilds also took part in public processions with torches on Corpus Christi Day in celebration of this popular festival.
In practice he was most often a wealthy and important merchant; and, like the Aldermen, belonged to the group of men who governed the trade guilds as well as the municipality.
Despite the power of the guilds the municipal authority maintained its supremacy in civic government because it enforced the ordinances of the trades.
The king, the pope, seigneurs, guildsof merchants and private persons, vied with each other in making gifts.
Guilds of craftsmen worked and flourished; markets were held generally on saints' days, and pilgrimages were fostered.
My attention was first directed to the omission during the preparation of my Guilds of Florence, published in 1906; and I determined to address myself to the forging of that lurid link in the catena of Florentine romance.
All the while the great bell of the Palazzo Vecchio was booming out its dread summons for the city trained bands and the armed members of the Guilds to assemble for the defence of the city and the maintenance of their liberties.
If two guilds were very poor they were allowed to share the production of one scene.
These guilds regulated all the trade and manufactures of the country.
Assemblies differently composed in different places, but sometimes representing the guilds and fraternities and sometimes made up of the whole body of citizens, took a part in the government of the town.
The guildswere reestablished, with modifications, on the fall of Turgot.
The capital required for setting up in business was small, although the fees were relatively large; the police had to be paid for a license; and the guilds for admission.
Private families, with their friends, fight in this way against other private families and their allies; and entire guilds of tradesmen sometimes fight other guilds, several hundreds of men being brought into the field on either side.
In the eighteenth century, when better sense prevailed among the statesmen and economists of Spain, the greedy and corrupt administration of herguilds began to be awarded greater notice.
These guilds developed greatly in the sixteenth century, expanding into powerful and wealthy bodies, who practically controlled the entire commerce and commercial products of their native town.
Those of the Valencian guilds which possessed the greatest influence and resources, and enjoyed the highest privileges from the city or the crown, were called colegiados.
A typical fiesta and procession of these trade-guilds is described by Tramoyeres.
Turning to Spanish guilds at large, the study of these institutions throws considerable light upon the customs of the Spanish nation in the past, and more especially upon the social and financial standing of the older Spanish craftsman.
However this may be, it is certain that the Seville guilds were regularly constituted in the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella.
It is therefore probable that the Sevillian trade-guilds were instituted shortly after the re-conquest.
According to Tramoyeres, most of the Valencian trade-guilds owned a building in fee-simple, and often gave the title of their craft to the entire street in which that edifice was situated.
Quaintly instructive are the dispositions of the guilds relating to apprenticeship.
American labor unions have not yet achieved the opulence, ambitions, and splendors of the guilds of the Middle Ages and do not yet direct their activities from splendid guild halls.
Such guilds and such journeyman's fraternities as may have survived were practically helpless against parliamentary rigor and state benevolence.
The London City Guilds possessed magnificent palls; especially well known is that of the Fishmongers, with its kneeling angels swinging censers; this pall is frequently reproduced in works on embroidery.
In the Middle Ages the arts and crafts were generally protected by the formation of guilds and fraternities.
Some of the Guilds exacted fines from all members who did not pay a proper proportion of their earnings to the Church.
In England there were Guilds of Blacksmiths; in Middlesex one was started in 1434, and members were known as "in the worship of St. Eloi.
The Masters of Stone and Wood were among the early Guilds and Corporations of Florence.
When the secular looms were started, the original beauty of the work was retained for a considerable time; in the tenth century German craftsmen worked as individuals, independently of Guilds or organizations.
These powerful guilds hampered the development of trade by the establishment of monopolies, and they were more than once suppressed, and finally abolished in the seventeenth century.
The regulations imposed within the guildspressed heavily upon the poorer members.
It is the tradition that King Numa organised nine guilds of handicrafts amongst the Roman people that they might sink their race animosities in an identity of interests.
These had coexisted with the trade guilds throughout the later middle ages.
The origin of these unions and guilds was very remote.
But the edict was evaded, and it was not until the Revolution, when things that were abolished were abolished for ever, that the French guilds finally disappeared.
Such guilds were common throughout Holland, and they became a favourite subject with Hals, as with other painters of the time, who vied with one another in portraiture of the different members.
At that time guilds and town councils wanted the portraits of their members preserved in some way, and it was the habit of painters like Holbein to form picturesque groups and give to such dramatic groupings the features of townsmen.
Of course the Guild was indigenous to almost every age and land, from China to ancient Rome (The Guilds of China, by H.
Free-masons existed in large numbers long before any city guild of Masons was formed, and even after theGuilds became powerful the two were entirely distinct.
As the feudal class was a landed class, so the class represented by the guilds became a moneyed and commercial class, the pioneers of our modern capitalist class.
Holland at that time abounded in Guilds and Companies, civil and military, Boards of Management of this or that Hospital or charitable Institution, and a perfect craze for being painted in groups animated one and all.
The chief burghers and cityguilds met the Prince at Ter Vueren, and escorted him to the palace gates, where the two Queens and Christina conducted him into the Emperor's presence.
Thenceforth the Guilds of Wool and Calimala were doomed to decline in Florence.
The council soon agreed that the first measure proposed should be the conversion of the seven greater guilds into an industrial and political body, with special banners, weapons, and chiefs of its own.
The normal number of the guilds was likewise established by the enactments, and from that moment remained fixed at twenty-one.
Nevertheless, it would be an error to suppose that the domination of the greater guilds was assured and uncontested in the interior, at least, of the city.
Thus to the supremacy of the leagues of the magnates succeeded the predominance of the Greater Guilds, between whom and the Lesser Guilds a struggle was entered upon in the course of which the latter obtained, in their turn, a share of power.
The two guilds afterwards made a division of labour in order to avoid infringing each others rights.
In Rome the constitution by districts, or rioni, prevailed; while at Florence, after a time, the constitution by guilds obtained in consequence of the enormous prosperity of commerce and industry in that city.
But the guilds predominated in the Council, and as a natural consequence the government assumed a popular character from that time, and the whole policy of Florence always tended to promote the trade and commerce of the city.
Looking back on the period in which the greater guilds rose to power, we shall see that they simultaneously held in their grasp the commerce, wealth, and government of the Florentine Republic.
Hence, on the one hand, they had to face their natural and inveterate foes, the survivors of the feudal order, and on the other the lesser guilds coveting a share in the government which they had helped to establish.
In fact, when at last the lesser guilds obtained a share in the government, they were never at one with the greater trades.
The officers of the guilds were exceedingly severe on these points.
We can trace the association of masons into guilds or corporations in some parts of Europe at the very dawn of medieval art.
The whole system of guilds originated, in part at least, in the necessity of preserving and extending such speculative and practical knowledge as may now be safely committed to the press.
The later Prophets did not claim descent from these guilds of "prophecy," and even repudiated any connection with them (Amos vii.
There were originally Guilds or Schools of Prophets; from which it would appear that Prophetism was a kind of profession (1 Sam.
The same is true of their predecessors, but in a different way; they stand as defenders of the national religion because they belong to the prophetic guilds or possess certain gifts of vision.
On the contrary, the unchartered guilds were the moat numerous and influential.
Besides the numerous guilds by which citizenship was acquired in the various cities, were many other societies for mutual improvement, support, or recreation.
Their duty was likewise to conduct the examination of candidates claiming admittance to any guild and offering specimens of art or handiwork, to superintend the general affairs of the guilds and to regulate disputes.
Another and most important collection of brotherhoods were the so-called guilds of Rhetoric, which existed, in greater or less number, in all the principal cities.
It was not for guilds of mechanics to give the tone to literature, nor were their efforts in more execrable taste than the emanations from the pedants of Louvain.
The guilds were vassals of the towns, the towns, vassals of the feudal lord.
Loftier ideas of human rights, larger conceptions of commerce, have taught mankind, in later days, the difference between liberties and liberty, between guilds and free competition.
Its population was divided into fifty-two guilds of manufacturers and into thirty-two tribes of weavers; each fraternity electing annually or biennally its own deans and subordinate officers.
The sovereigns were always anxious to conciliate these influential guilds by becoming members of them in person.
These literary guilds befitted and denoted a people which was alive, a people which had neither sunk to sleep in the lap of material prosperity, nor abased itself in the sty of ignorance and political servitude.
Guilds had long flourished in Exeter, and it is recorded that as early as 1477 there was a quarrel between the Mayor and citizens and the Company of Taylors.
Numerous brotherhoods and sisterhoods, guilds and orders, organized after the style of Roman Catholic monasticism, promote the interests of ritualism, and zealously prosecute home and foreign mission work.
Professor of Engineering at the Central Institute of the City and Guilds of London Institute.
Moreover, it is expected that he will employ this period in studying the general condition of the army, instead of that of the special group of guilds of which he was the head.
Each of the ten lieutenant-generals or heads of departments is himself elected from among the generals of the guilds grouped as a department, by vote of the honorary members of the guilds thus grouped.
These regents, who, of course, are responsible to Congress, are chosen by the honorary members of the guilds of education and medicine, the retired teachers and doctors of the country.
All the industrial and professional guilds have clubhouses as extensive as this, as well as country, mountain, and seaside houses for sport and rest in vacations.
The chiefs of these ten grand divisions of the industrial army may be compared to your commanders of army corps, or lieutenant-generals, each having from a dozen to a score of generals of separate guilds reporting to him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "guilds" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
