Tuckers Hall Exeter

The History of a Provincial City Company through Five Centuries

by Joyce Youings

Book cover: Tuckers Hall Exeter

Extent: 272 pages

Publisher: University of Exeter Press

Subjects: Cultural Studies, Early Modern & Renaissance Studies

Language: English

(Hardback) (Published)

(June 1968)

ISBN: 9780900771484

7.13 x 9.17 inches

Price: $112.00

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Gilds and Companies of Craftsmen were a great feature of late medieval and early modern urban life. At Exeter, Fullers (Tuckers) and Shearmen numbered nearly five hundred freemen during the reign of Queen Anne. Much reduced in size and changed, the Company still survives today and its Hall is among the city’s architectural treasures.


Gilds and Companies of Craftsmen were a great feature of late medieval and early modern urban life. At Exeter, the Company of Weavers, Fullers (Tuckers) and Shearmen numbered nearly five hundred freemen during the reign of Queen Anne. Much reduced in size and changed, the Company still survives today and its Hall, built in 1471, is among the city’s architectural treasures. The Company’s records, together with those of the city of Exeter, have made it possible to tell the story of the progress of this body of men, and to place them in their social, economic and political context.

  • By (author) Joyce Youings