CLOTHWORKERS' COMPANY

In October 2010, the project 'People, Property and Charity: The Clothworkers' Company,1500-1688' began in the Centre for Metropolitan History at the Institute of Historical Research. The project was funded by The Clothworkers' Company. The Director of the project was Professor Matthew Davies, while the project researcher was Dr Annaleigh Margey. The website was developed by IHR Digital... The project focused on the history of benefaction to The Clothworkers' Company in the early modern period (c.1500-1700). It provided the first detailed history of the benefactors, property acquisitions and other bequests of the Company in the City of London from the late fifteenth century through to the eighteenth century. Focusing specifically on the properties that came to the company through the bequests of several benefactors, the project aimed to trace the Company's management of these properties and associated charities using the Company's Court Orders, account books, bequest records, lease..