Crossword-Solution: WOOLMEN 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

These businesses supplied luxury goods to the rich and included the goldsmiths [sold cups, dishes, girdles, mirrors, purses knives, and metal wine containers with handle and spout], vintners [wine merchants], mercers [sold textiles, haberdashery, combs, mirrors, knives, toys, spices, ointments, and potions], drapers, and pepperers, which later merged with the spicers to become the "grocers", skinners, tanners, shoemakers, woolmen, weavers, fishmongers, armorers, and swordsmiths.

The Merchant Taylors, being assessed at 936 quarters of corn, were called upon to contribute £1,872 towards the £20,000 by instalments of £468; the Grocers (the next highest in the corn assessment) £1,748, the Mercers £1,640, and so on in a descending scale to the Bowyers, the Fletchers, the Woolmen and the Musicians, each of whom subscribed respectively £10.—Journal 28, fos.

Last, but not least, on the list stands the Woolmen's Company, founded in 1300, when the trade in wool was at its zenith.

Here the woolmen come to trade and to export their wool, here the sheepmen bring their sheep for the annual shearing.

Some, which tell most singularly of past times, and of the difference between the past and the present, are the _Cooks’_, the _Bowyers’_, the _Fletchers’_, the _Woolmen’s_, the _Scriveners’_, the _Broderers’_, the _Horners’_, the _Loriners’_, the _Spectacle Makers’_, the _Felt Makers’_, the _Patten Makers’_, the _Parish Clerks’_, and the _Fan Makers’_ companies.