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" Andtver and its Neighbourhood. 



properly recommended, applied for them, and also let oat to the 

 townsmen the privilege of having shops or stills for the sale of 

 goods ; and amongst these notices tanners and Tanners' Row are 

 often mentioned. 



It would seem that the guild of merchants of Andover was divided 

 into three guilds of merchants, viz., the leather-sellers, the haber- 

 dashers, and the drapers. These guilds had ordinances, or laws, by 

 which they were ruled. The laws for the haberdashers commence 

 with this preamble: — "Ordinances of the Guild of Merchants in 

 Andever in the County of Souths- which Guild is divided into 3 

 several Fellowships whereof these are only of the Fellowship of 

 Haberdashers." It then goes on to say that the men of Andover, 

 otherwise called the approved men of Andover, were incorporate by the 

 letters patent of Henry III., and by the same letters patent, among 

 other things have granted unto them a guild of merchants, &c, and 

 have divided their whole company into three several fellowships. 

 The deed recites what persons may be members of the guild of 

 haberdashers. They are, haberdashers, milliners, mercers, grocers, 

 inn-holders, vintners, bakers, brewers, smiths, cappers, hat-makers, 

 barbers, painters, and glaziers. There is a similar deed for the 

 Leather-sellers' Co. ; members eligible for which society are, tanners, 

 saddlers, glovers, pewterers, braziers, shoemakers, curriers, collar- 

 makers, butchers, chandlers, dyers, and upholsterers. Then follow 

 orders for the times of meeting, the apprenticing of youths to the 

 various trades, laws about foreign tradesmen who came here to 

 pursue their craft, and the election of the warden and officers. 



The tradesmen of Andover issued tokens. Boyne gives a list of 

 nineteen Andover tokens. Seven were issued by grocers, and bear 

 the grocers' arms. The names were, William Waller, Abraham 

 Waller, William Sweetapple, John Seagrove, Robert Millet, Benjamin 

 Bradborne, and Robert Bird. Two bear the mercers' arms, those 

 of William Gold and Richard Blake. Anthony Tatnell's token 

 bears a fish, and Thomas Paine was probably a chandler, as the 

 token has upon it a man making candles. Such was the trade 

 of Thomas Olives, who issued a token in 1656. William Cornelius, 

 the glover, issued a token having on its reverse a glove. John 



