Chester Guilds

The Guilds were once very powerful in Chester, and each guild would have had its' own meeting place. Now there is a small museum in the Guild Hall which commemorates them. The Guilds used to perform the Chester Mystery Plays, performed every five years, of which there will be a cycle next year. The list of guilds involved in the plays was as follows:

Barkers, Tanners
Drapers, Hosiers
Waterleaders, Drawers in the Dee
Barber Surgeons, Waxchandlers
Cappers, Wiredrawers, Pinners
Wheelrights, Slaters, Tylers, Daubers, Thatchers
Painters, Glaziers, Embroiderers
Vintners
Mercers, Spicers
Goldsmiths, Masons
Smiths, Forbers, Pewterers
Butchers
Glovers, Parchment-makers
Corvisars
Grocers, Bakers, Millers
Bowyers, Fletchers, Stringers, Coopers, Turners
Dyers
Ironmongers, Ropers
Cooks, Tapsters, Ostlers, Innkeepers
Skinners, Plastercard-makers, Hatters, Painters, Girdlers
Saddlers
Tailors
Fishmongers
Shermen
Hewsters, Bellfounders
Weavers, Walkers

A corvisar was a cobbler, i.e. someone who make shoes, forbers burnished metal, and a sherman was someone who finished cloth.

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