Building Early Modern Edinburgh
Description
Much like in the present day, building a house in the sixteenth century involved masons, carpenters and glaziers, among others, and in many cities such trades had separate companies to govern their own affairs. In Edinburgh, however, they banded together in a single body - the Edinburgh Incorporation of Mary's Chapel.
Building Early Modern Edinburgh traces the history of the organisation, which sought to control the capital's building trades and defend their privileges. By utilising a range of previously missing charters and archival documents, the author offers a new perspective on the prestigious and important craft guild in its 543 years of existence. Developing a crucial theme of 'composite corporatism', and using the concepts of 'family' and 'household' to approach an urban institution, this book is a valuable resource of comparative material for the study of craft guilds and urban history in a global context.
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Content
- Intro
- Building Early Modern Edinburgh
- Copyright
- Contents
- Tables
- Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Foreword to the History of the United Incorporations Of St Mary's Chapel of Edinburgh
- Preface The Mary's Chapel Project
- Dedication
- Plates
- Introduction: Incorporation and the Corporate Framework
- 1 Headship and Inclusion
- 2 Family, Household and Obligation
- 3 Craft and Kirk: Security, Status and Shelter
- 4 Craft and Burgh: Conflict or Partnership?
- Conclusion: The Decline of Corporatism and the Rise of the Unfree
- Appendix 1: Seals of Cause
- Appendix 2: Mill's Partial Transcription of the 1517 Letter from the Archbishop of St Andrews
- Appendix 3: 1527-8 Ratification of Seal of Cause by James V
- Appendix 4: 1532 Order of Crafts in Processions
- Appendix 5: Documents Relating to Foundation of Mary's Chapel, 1505-6
- Appendix 6: Excerpts from Inventory of Writs Relating to 1601 Purchase of St Mary's Chapel, Niddry's
- Appendix 7: 1633 Ratification of Seal of Cause
- Appendix 8: Record of the 1703 Court of Session Decreet Arbitral from the Edinburgh Council Records
- Appendix 9: 1718-21 Chimney Piece Debate
- Appendix 10: Unfreemen Declared Able to Join the Incorporation in 1790
- Appendix 11: Responses to the Questions from the Royal Commission on Municipal Corporations
- Appendix 12: Burgh Trading Act 1846
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index of Subjects
- Index of Places
