Detailed Results for Robert Arnold

Name	Guild	Held Office
Arnold, Robert ¹	Grocer ²	1426-27 Sheriff (mayor's choice)
Notes John Arnold in Stow/K II.172; but Robert Arnold, Grocer, in LBK (LMA: COL/AD/01/010) fo. 39v; Robert Arnold in Jor. 2 fo. 84r. A Chronicle p. 115 also has Robert Arnold, though identifying his company as the Haberdashers. Nightingale p. 359 calls Arnold originally a Haberdasher and forced to become a Grocer. The Grocers pay "diuersez costages" in respect to him during their 1426-27 accounting year (Grocers' Black Book, LMA: CLC/L/GH/A/001/MS11570/001 p. 162), i.e., during the year he was sheriff, and he is listed (p. 175) as a member of the livery in 1428. See also Grocers' alphabetical list of freemen, LMA: CLC/L/GH/C/003/MS11592A/001, under 1426, Robert Arnold. John Arnold in Stow/K II.172; but Robert Arnold, Grocer, in LBK (LMA: COL/AD/01/010) fo. 39v; Robert Arnold in Jor. 2 fo. 84r. A Chronicle p. 115 also has Robert Arnold, though identifying his company as the Haberdashers. Nightingale p. 359 calls Arnold originally a Haberdasher and forced to become a Grocer. The Grocers pay "diuersez costages" in respect to him during their 1426-27 accounting year (Grocers' Black Book, LMA: CLC/L/GH/A/001/MS11570/001 p. 162), i.e., during the year he was sheriff, and he is listed (p. 175) as a member of the livery in 1428. See also Grocers' alphabetical list of freemen, LMA: CLC/L/GH/C/003/MS11592A/001, under 1426, Robert Arnold. Note Sources A Chronicle: A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483[, eds. Nicholas Nicolas and Edward Tyrrell]. London: Longman et al., 1827. : Jor.: Journal. Manuscript series at The London Archives, City of London (formerly the London Metropolitan Archives: LMA). LB: Letter Book. Manuscript series (from A onward: LBA, LBB, etc.) at The London Archives, City of London (formerly the London Metropolitan Archives: LMA). LMA: Prefix to the catalogue number of a manuscript available for consultation at either The London Archives, City of London (formerly the London Metropolitan Archives: LMA) or, if a company manuscript, the Guildhall Library. Nightingale: Pamela Nightingale, A Medieval Mercantile Community: The Grocers Company and the Politics and Trade of London 1000-1485. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1995. Stow/K: John Stow, A Survey of London, ed. Charles Lethbridge Kingsford. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908.

Name

Guild

Held Office

Arnold, Robert ¹

Grocer ²

1426-27 Sheriff (mayor's choice)

Notes

John Arnold in Stow/K II.172; but Robert Arnold, Grocer, in LBK (LMA: COL/AD/01/010) fo. 39v; Robert Arnold in Jor. 2 fo. 84r. A Chronicle p. 115 also has Robert Arnold, though identifying his company as the Haberdashers. Nightingale p. 359 calls Arnold originally a Haberdasher and forced to become a Grocer. The Grocers pay "diuersez costages" in respect to him during their 1426-27 accounting year (Grocers' Black Book, LMA: CLC/L/GH/A/001/MS11570/001 p. 162), i.e., during the year he was sheriff, and he is listed (p. 175) as a member of the livery in 1428. See also Grocers' alphabetical list of freemen, LMA: CLC/L/GH/C/003/MS11592A/001, under 1426, Robert Arnold.
John Arnold in Stow/K II.172; but Robert Arnold, Grocer, in LBK (LMA: COL/AD/01/010) fo. 39v; Robert Arnold in Jor. 2 fo. 84r. A Chronicle p. 115 also has Robert Arnold, though identifying his company as the Haberdashers. Nightingale p. 359 calls Arnold originally a Haberdasher and forced to become a Grocer. The Grocers pay "diuersez costages" in respect to him during their 1426-27 accounting year (Grocers' Black Book, LMA: CLC/L/GH/A/001/MS11570/001 p. 162), i.e., during the year he was sheriff, and he is listed (p. 175) as a member of the livery in 1428. See also Grocers' alphabetical list of freemen, LMA: CLC/L/GH/C/003/MS11592A/001, under 1426, Robert Arnold.

Note Sources

A Chronicle: A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483[, eds. Nicholas Nicolas and Edward Tyrrell]. London: Longman et al., 1827.
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Jor.: Journal. Manuscript series at The London Archives, City of London (formerly the London Metropolitan Archives: LMA).
LB: Letter Book. Manuscript series (from A onward: LBA, LBB, etc.) at The London Archives, City of London (formerly the London Metropolitan Archives: LMA).
LMA: Prefix to the catalogue number of a manuscript available for consultation at either The London Archives, City of London (formerly the London Metropolitan Archives: LMA) or, if a company manuscript, the Guildhall Library.
Nightingale: Pamela Nightingale, A Medieval Mercantile Community: The Grocers Company and the Politics and Trade of London 1000-1485. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1995.
Stow/K: John Stow, A Survey of London, ed. Charles Lethbridge Kingsford. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908.

Notes About Company Names

Grocers were originally called Pepperers; the company appears to have emerged as Grocers in 1372; and the Merchant Taylors were until 6 January 1503 the Tailors and Linen Armourers. For both companies the original name is used until the year of the change, and then the new name, regardless of whether the sources consulted use the old or the new designation. The Fishmongers and the Stockfishmongers were originally different companies which, after one union which did not succeed, were finally united on a permanent basis in 1536. The two different names are here reproduced until 1536, from which year only the Fishmonger designation is used, regardless of the readings of the sources. The Barbers and the Surgeons, two separate companies, were combined from 1540 to 1745; the combined name Barbers and Surgeons is accordingly used here for those years. The Armourers in 1708 became the Armourers and Brasiers, and the longer name is used here from 1708 on; but otherwise companies which through mergers and additions lengthened their original names are cited throughout by their original names only, for ease of database company searches. (For reference sources for the dates above, see Companies / Occupations on the site menu bar.) Note that a search for, e.g., all mayors and sheriffs from a company with a database name change has to be made separately for each company name.

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