It was indeed I and the black cook, both from the ship `La Rose de Gloire,' of Southampton, who did set upon the Flanders merchant and rob him of his spicery and his
mercery, for which, as we well know, you hold a warrant against us."
"I remember many trips to the
mercery floor of [department store] Myer in Melbourne to buy fabric.
The
Mercery of London: Trade, Goods and People, 1130-1578.
Promoter: New Look Retailers Limited,
Mercery Road, Weymouth, Dorset, DT3 5HJ.
(28) Regional statutes from the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries classify meulequins with
mercery and woven goods.
(8) See Erler, Ecclesiastical London, 365, citing Anne Sutton, The
Mercery of London: Trade, Goods, and People, 1130-1578 (Aldershot, 2005), 387-8.
Sutton, The
Mercery of London: Trade, Goods, and People, 1130-1578 (Burlington, Vt.: Aldershot, 2005), 29.
On the other hand, the trade list of the
mercery of John Pares in Rochdale, Lancashire, included 'Itm three dossen of trumpes all save twoe trumpes' at 8d, in 1623, which is apparently a good deal cheaper per item.