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Updated: May 12, 2025
"We agree," said both knights. "And I, also, on behalf of the two guilds of Ulm," added Moritz Schleiermacher.
High above the turretted towers of the castle and the peaked roof of the town-hall, rose the slender spire of the newly built Gothic cathedral. Everywhere the world was in motion. The members of the guilds who had just become aware of the important fact that "numbers count" were fighting the high and mighty gentlemen of the city-hall.
If any one, however, considers himself wronged, he must appeal to the land Vogt and ask justice from him before sunset. On landing, the Stock with the fredfines was handed over to the Vogt of the sea-port for distribution among the poor." This simple narrative, perhaps better than anything else, depicts the spirit of the medieval guilds.
Not much is known about them. But it is tolerably safe to assume that most, if not all of the guilds, were at one time religiously organized, and that apprentices were adopted not only in a craft, but into a cult.
The guilds, which from ancient times existed in Rome, of potters, coppersmiths, and goldsmiths, are almost the only proofs of the existence of native sculpture and design there; respecting the position of their art it is no longer possible to gain any clear idea. Artistic Relations and Endowments of the Etruscans and Italians
These guilds got their charters from the crown. They fixed prices, regulated the number of apprentices, and decided who should work and who should not. To work at an art without a license from the guild was punishable by fine and imprisonment; to repeat the offense was death. Citizens could neither sell their labor nor buy the labor of their neighbors or families, without permission.
And beneath this warlike show lay the city, rebellious and turbulent to the core, the merchants longing for unhampered rights of trade and security in the enjoyment of the fruits of their labors, the craftsmen claiming freedom to work in their guilds without a payment of labor-bond tithes to the Duke, and especially without the fear of being snatched away at any moment from their benches and looms to join in his forays and incursions.
The Gangs of Three that waylay the solitary pedestrian, the Choker in the middle, next the victim who is to be strangled and cleaned out, the larger guilds of Hustlers who bonnet a man and beat his breath out of him and empty his pockets before he knows what is the matter with him, the Burglars, with their "jimmies" in their pockets, the fighting robbers, with their brass knuckles, the whole set in a vast thief-constituency, thick as rats in sewers, these were the disputants whom the emissaries of the Slave Power called upon to refute the arguments of the Brooklyn clergyman.
This probably was the cause of the decay of cities which forms the burden of complaint in the preambles to Acts of Parliament, in the Tudor period. Great guilds oppressed little guilds: strong commercial cities ruled by artisans oppressed their weaker neighbours of the same class.
The Bourgeois tells us that letters came from "les Arminoz," that is, the party of the King, sealed with the seal of the Duc d'Alencon, and addressed to the heads of the city guilds and municipality inviting their co-operation as Frenchmen.
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