guild-brother
A member of a guild.
| 1382 in Eng. Gilds (1870) 57 Ye den xal..warnen alle ye gylde breyeren y{supt} ben in toune. c 1470 Henryson Mor. Fab. 172 in Anglia IX. 348 The vther mous..Was gild-brother and maid ane fre burges. 1583 in W. Maitland Hist. Edin. (1753) 233 Alsweill Craftsmen as Merchands sall be receivit and admittit Gild-brother. 1690 Def. Dr. G. Walker 12 Collonel..Walker..is admitted and received Burgess and Gild-Brother of the foresaid City of Glasgow. 1771 Smollett Humph. Cl. 8 Aug., The ‘good town of Edinburgh’, of which we are become free denizens and guild brothers. 1828 Scott F.M. Perth xx, Those who occupied the higher seats were merchants, that is, guild brethren. 1872 E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. 154 The Guild-brethren instead of the kindred, became responsible for the wergild. |