[1] Throughout this paper I shall translate the French word métier by the
more usual word _gild_ when it refers to the organization and not the
craft.
[2] Fagniez: Documents rélatifs à l’Histoire de l’Industrie, etc. Intro.
[3] Levasseur: _Hist. des classes ouv._ p. 251.
[4] For a list of these gilds with their ancient French names and their
modern English equivalents, see _Appendix_.
[5] Fagniez: Études sur l’industrie à Paris, p. 67.
[6] Réglemens sur les arts et les mét. ed. Depping, p. 366.
[7] “Coutumes de Beauvaisis.” Beaumanoir, éd. Beugnot; p. 429.
[8] It has been estimated that four _sous_ of Paris of this period are
equivalent to one franc at present.
[9] Comm. d’Amiens, Doc. inédits, p. 387, p. 370.
[10] Lev.: Hist. des classes ouv., vol. I, page 116.
[11] Ordonnances touchant les mét., 1312. Art. 5.
[12] Fagniez: “Études sur l’industrie,” p. 290. Text in _Doc. rélatifs_,
No. 19.
[13] M. Lespinasse quotes the text of a decree against _confrérie_ from a
Council at Rouen, 1189.
[14] _Liv. des Mét._ Avant Propos par M. Lespinasse, p. xiv.