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Definition of Gildhall
1. Noun. The meeting place of a medieval guild.
Definition of Gildhall
1. a town hall [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gildhall
Literary usage of Gildhall
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Records of the Borough of Leicester: Being a Series of Extracts from the by Leicester (England), Mary Bateson, William Henry Stevenson, John Edward Stocks (1901)
"Expenses on the gildhall of Leicester. First beginning on Monday next after the
feast of St Gregory the Pope, in the 4oth year, viz. in shovels ..."
2. Reading Records: Diary of the Corporation by J. M. Guilding (1892)
"... shall have one Court every weke, that is to witt, uppon the Wensday for ever
to be holden in the gildhall of the seide borough, ..."
3. The Publications of the Selden Society by Selden Society (1895)
"However, that the Cottonian volume is made up of sheets that came from the gildhall
is, I suppose, indubitable. Then Dr. Stubbs has conjectured that No. ..."
4. The Pictorial History of England: Being, a History of the People, as Well as by George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane (1841)
"They hail a hall or factory in London called their gildhall, for the saisine (or
legal possession) of which they paid thirty marks to the crown in AD 1220. ..."
5. History of England Under Henry the Fourth by James Hamilton Wylie (1894)
"In 1410 there is an order that the little door leading from the gildhall to the
Stahlhof must be kept closed.—LAPPENBERG, I., 25, n , 120. ..."
6. The Mirror of Justices by Andrew Horne, William Joseph Whittaker, Frederic William Maitland (1895)
"5 was Henry of Hunting- sented by the Liber Horn of the don's chronicle with a
continuation gildhall; that No. 1 is divided be- represented to us by the now ..."
7. The Manuscripts of the Corporations of Southampton and King's Lynn by John Cordy Jeaffreson (1887)
"... that the aforesaid officers having been nominated in the aforesaid form their
names be immediately made known to the burgesses being in the gildhall, ..."
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