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Guilds.
" Of trade colleges epigraphy has preserved an infinity of examples ; but , as I have intimated , the private colleges Avere not of craftsmen only ; any person could combine and form a college , if the common purpose of it were lawful . " Men could combine themselves into a religious college if the rebgion Avere tolerated by the State ; * and De Eossi has sheAATi that colleges fanerum causa , or for the piu'pose of holding land wherein to bury the societies , AA'ere rife in Eoine both before and after the rise of Christianity . f In factit Avas the glorious destiny of this order of
, colleges , as the creators of the catacombs , to preserve our nascent and struggling faith . Under cover of a Eoman burial club the scheme of man's redemption Avas carried out . " Though a glance OA'er the preceding pages Avill haA'e shewn the identity of the English Guild ( through the Anglo-Saxon institution ) Avith the Eoman college , it may perhaps assist the reader if I place their resemblances in stricter juxtaposition . In doing so I Avill refer , Avhere I can , more particularly to the Guild as found in the Anglo-Saxon
period of our history . " The collegium Avas an association of men , combined for a common biwful purpose , and cemented together by admission into a sodalitium , ancl an oath of fellowship . " The Anglo-Saxon Guild Avas identical in these respects . " The collegium had a complete self-government of master ancl officers . " Though we haA'e no full information upon this in the Anglo-Saxon Guildtho
, old English Guild is constituted in a manner similar to the collegium . " When the collegium was large it was divided into decurice aud centuries .. " We haA'e seen this identical division in the Anglo-Saxon Guild of London . " The collegium and the Guild had a special cult . In the old English form this is uniform and prominent , and it shews itself in the Anglo-Saxon Guild of Cambridge in the reference to S . JEtheldryth . J
f A very interesting paper of the Cavaliere de Rossi ' s in the Uemie Arehiiolof / ique , vol . xiii . N . S . p . 295 etseq ([ . and entitled " Existence legale des Cimiticres Chretiens ti Rome , " contains a resume of his discoveries upon this and cognate points treated from time to time in the Bidhtt ' mo di Areheolor / ia Cristiana and lloma Sotterrnnea . I refer the reader to this paper , p . 240 et scqq . The Cavaliere thus sums up his discoveries { ibid . p . 240 ) : Aussi les Chretiens , en leur qualitd de possesseurs de eimitieres coinmuns , ont-ils formd ipsojnrewn college de ce genre { i . e ., funerum causa ); et pour leur oter le benefice du senatus-consulte on devait prouver qu'ils tombaient sous le coup de cette restriction de la loi : dummodo hoc prcetezutu collegium illictum non coeat . A la constatation de ce delit equivalait chacun
ces edits speciaux de persecution , ou 1 'on iuterdisait aux Chretiens l ' usage de leurs eimitieres ; et ees edits sont en eff'et du iii" siccle , dpoque oh l'histoire et les monuments tdmoignent que les fideles posscdaieut des tombeaux eu qualite de corps constitues . Apres la revocation de l ' edit le privilege rentrait en vigour ; et alors les empereurs restituaient aux eveques comme representants du corps de la chretiente la libre possession aveo l ' usage des eimitieres . " X Mr . Toulmin Smith is anxious to exculpate the Guilds from the charge of being religious . He says , " These were not in any sense superstitious foundations , that is , they were not founded , like monasteries and priories , for men ' devoted to what were deemed religious exercises . " ( " Old English Guilds , " Introduction , p . xxviii . )"
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Guilds.
" Of trade colleges epigraphy has preserved an infinity of examples ; but , as I have intimated , the private colleges Avere not of craftsmen only ; any person could combine and form a college , if the common purpose of it were lawful . " Men could combine themselves into a religious college if the rebgion Avere tolerated by the State ; * and De Eossi has sheAATi that colleges fanerum causa , or for the piu'pose of holding land wherein to bury the societies , AA'ere rife in Eoine both before and after the rise of Christianity . f In factit Avas the glorious destiny of this order of
, colleges , as the creators of the catacombs , to preserve our nascent and struggling faith . Under cover of a Eoman burial club the scheme of man's redemption Avas carried out . " Though a glance OA'er the preceding pages Avill haA'e shewn the identity of the English Guild ( through the Anglo-Saxon institution ) Avith the Eoman college , it may perhaps assist the reader if I place their resemblances in stricter juxtaposition . In doing so I Avill refer , Avhere I can , more particularly to the Guild as found in the Anglo-Saxon
period of our history . " The collegium Avas an association of men , combined for a common biwful purpose , and cemented together by admission into a sodalitium , ancl an oath of fellowship . " The Anglo-Saxon Guild Avas identical in these respects . " The collegium had a complete self-government of master ancl officers . " Though we haA'e no full information upon this in the Anglo-Saxon Guildtho
, old English Guild is constituted in a manner similar to the collegium . " When the collegium was large it was divided into decurice aud centuries .. " We haA'e seen this identical division in the Anglo-Saxon Guild of London . " The collegium and the Guild had a special cult . In the old English form this is uniform and prominent , and it shews itself in the Anglo-Saxon Guild of Cambridge in the reference to S . JEtheldryth . J
f A very interesting paper of the Cavaliere de Rossi ' s in the Uemie Arehiiolof / ique , vol . xiii . N . S . p . 295 etseq ([ . and entitled " Existence legale des Cimiticres Chretiens ti Rome , " contains a resume of his discoveries upon this and cognate points treated from time to time in the Bidhtt ' mo di Areheolor / ia Cristiana and lloma Sotterrnnea . I refer the reader to this paper , p . 240 et scqq . The Cavaliere thus sums up his discoveries { ibid . p . 240 ) : Aussi les Chretiens , en leur qualitd de possesseurs de eimitieres coinmuns , ont-ils formd ipsojnrewn college de ce genre { i . e ., funerum causa ); et pour leur oter le benefice du senatus-consulte on devait prouver qu'ils tombaient sous le coup de cette restriction de la loi : dummodo hoc prcetezutu collegium illictum non coeat . A la constatation de ce delit equivalait chacun
ces edits speciaux de persecution , ou 1 'on iuterdisait aux Chretiens l ' usage de leurs eimitieres ; et ees edits sont en eff'et du iii" siccle , dpoque oh l'histoire et les monuments tdmoignent que les fideles posscdaieut des tombeaux eu qualite de corps constitues . Apres la revocation de l ' edit le privilege rentrait en vigour ; et alors les empereurs restituaient aux eveques comme representants du corps de la chretiente la libre possession aveo l ' usage des eimitieres . " X Mr . Toulmin Smith is anxious to exculpate the Guilds from the charge of being religious . He says , " These were not in any sense superstitious foundations , that is , they were not founded , like monasteries and priories , for men ' devoted to what were deemed religious exercises . " ( " Old English Guilds , " Introduction , p . xxviii . )"