Vintners' Company

Vintners' Company
   Incorporated 15 Hen. VI. 1436-7. Eleventh on the list of the Twelve Great Companies.
   Included the Vinetarli, or wine importers, and the Tabernani, the Tavern-keepers, or retailers of wine.
   Elections made to the mistery of the Vintners, 1328 (Cal. L. Bk. E. p.232).
   Vintners of old called marchants Vintners of Gascoyne, as well Englishmen as strangers. Gascoyne wines sold at not above 4d. a gallon and Rhenish wines not above 6d. a gallon, temp. Edward III. (S. 242).
   Stow says they were incorporated by the name of Wine-tunners by Edward III, confirmed by Hen. VI. (p.243).

A Dictionary of London. . 1918.

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