Merchant Adventurers' Hall
Medieval timber-framed guildhall with a great hall, chapel and undercroft, built from the 1350s.
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This guide to the Merchant Adventurers' Hall in York follows Mary Tuke, a Quaker grocer in her thirties who opened a small shop on nearby Walmgate in seventeen twenty-five without the licence the hall's powerful trading company demanded. It touches the guild's grip on who could sell in the city, the informants who policed it, and a nephew named William. Best heard standing in the Great Hall, under its old timbers.
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