mercer

• Jasper Hope was offered, but he was too young, and besides, was a mercer--and Dennet and her father were agreed that her husband must go on with the trade. —  The Armourer's Prentices
• Sir John Allen, mercer, mayor. —  Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc
• 8, 1604-5 A Ballad, called The vertuous lyfe and memorable death of Sir Richard Whittington, mercer, sometymes Lord Maiour of the honorable Citie of London. —  The History of Sir Richard Whittington
• Looke upon thys, ye aldermen, for it is a glorious glasse Stow writes as follows in his Survey of London on some of Whittington's good works Richard Whittington, mercer, three times mayor, in the year 1421 began the library of the grey friars in London, to the charge of four hundred pounds: his executors with his goods founded and built Whittington College, with almshouses for thirteen poor men, and divinity lectures to be read there for ever. —  The History of Sir Richard Whittington
• He had always believed that he was a Liberal, a Low Churchman, and a silk-mercer For Arnold to find that he was in possession of a pulpit--that he had secured a position from which he could preach his doctrine with a certainty that it would be heard and pondered, if not accepted--was a new and an invigorating experience. —  Matthew Arnold

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