Young Jerome-Denis Rogron entered the establishment of one of the largest wholesale mercersin the same street, the Maison Guepin, at the "Three Distaffs.
Split me," said one splendid fop, "but since my lady returned to town the price of ambergris and bergamot and civet powders has mounted perilously, and the mercers are all too busy to be civil.
When Elizabeth began to reign there were no more than 317 merchants in all, of whom the Company of Mercers formed ninety-nine.
The Mercers alone supplied Queen Elizabeth with £4,000 after the defeat of the Spanish Armada.
At one in the afternoon of the 14th of July the books were opened at the Hall of the Company of Mercers in Cheapside.
For whereas mercers and haberdashers used to keep their shops in West Cheape,[92] of later time they held them on London Bridge, where partly they yet remain.
He left to these mercers lands to the yearly value of one hundred and twenty pounds, or better.
These Mercers were enabled to be a company, and to purchase lands to the value of twenty pounds the year, the 17th of Richard II.
John Coventrie, John Carpenter, and William Grove, granted to the Mercers to have a chaplain and a brotherhood, for relief of such of their company as came to decay by misfortune on the sea.
The hall not being large enough to contain the whole of the company, the members of the Common Council dined by themselves at the hall of the Mercers Company.
The Barber-Surgeons and the Apothecaries had already done so; so had the Clothworkers, the Mercers and the Glovers.
On this occasion the youngmercers of the city rose against the Lombards; why or wherefore we are not told.
The Mercers were called upon to furnish the largest quota, viz.
Next to them were to stand the Skinners, then the Mercers and other worshipful crafts in their order, clothed in their last and best livery.
In consequence of this second outbreak no less than 28 mercers were arrested and committed to Windsor Castle.
It is not known whether the mercers bought their silks from the Lombards, or the London silk-women, or whether they imported them themselves, since many of the members of the Company were merchants.
In 1296 the mercers joined the company of merchant adventurers in establishing in Edward I.
Mercers grew jealous of the Lombard merchants, and on Midsummer Day three mercers were sent to the Tower for attacking two Lombards in the Old Jewry.
Mercers were at first general dealers in all small wares, including wigs, haberdashery, and even spices and drugs.
The costume of the Mercers became fixed about the reign of Charles I.
The mercers in this reign sold woollen clothes, but not silks.
The Mercers prudently bowed before the storm, promised reform, and begged her Majesty's Council to look after the Grocers.
A few years later the Mercers are described as sending forth, twice a year, a fleet of 50 or 60 ships, laden with cloth, for the Low Countries.
Pledging the rents of their large landed estates as security for the fulfilment of their contracts with usurers, the Mercers entered on business as life assurance agents.
Before the suppression, the Mercers only occupied a shop of the present front, the modern Mercers' Chapel standing, says Herbert, exactly on the site of part of the hospital church.
This bequest seems to have started among the Mercers the kindly practice of assisting the young and struggling members of this Company.
In 1665 the regulation imposed on the mercers was extended to the goldsmiths.
Besides, where better, thought I, could I find a shawl for old Judy than among the Mercers on the Bridge?
And at the word we charged forward, shoulder to shoulder, and brushed those unmannerly mercers and barber-surgeons aside as a torrent the nettles that grow on its bank.
The Mercers were quite new to Avonlea, having come here only two months previously.
Another new family besides the Mercers had come to Avonlea in the spring--the Maxwells.
Charley ordered eight peons to saddle horses instantly, and while they were doing so he wrote on eight leaves of his pocketbook: "The Mercers' house destroyed last night by Indians; the Mercers killed or carried off.
Mercers are a fine company, so are the Grocers,--St. Anthony is their patron.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mercers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
