[Sca-cooks] Mercer was Word usage

[Johnna Holloway]

Before he was a printer, Caxton was a mercer.
On Caxton as a member of the Mercers' Company
A. Sutton, ‘Caxton was a Mercer: His Social Milieu and Friends’, in 
England in the Fifteenth Century: Proceedings of the 1992 Harlaxton 
Symposium, edited by Nicholas Rogers (Stamford: Paul Watkins, 1994), pp. 
118-48. ISBN 1871615674

Johnnae

otsisto wrote:

>Is mercer British specific? And what I find is that it is a post SCA period
>name, mercer - after the process of mercerizing (1791).
>Actually, what I have found is that it is used in reference to a fabric
>merchant post SCA and that prior to that it is a trader/merchant of a
>variety of wares, not just fabric.
>So I would, when you feel better, like your info.
>Thank you,
>Lyse
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