A group of burghers obtaining a charter from the lord of the realm became a municipal corporation; a group of teachers, a collegium, became the corporation of the college or a university (a number of persons united into one association); a group of craftsman became a gild-corporation.

A journeyman carpenter had made that chest to prove himself a master of his trade under the old gild rules.

About a quarter of a century ago, a few sincere Swedenborgians met in an office down Cannon-street, which is now used as a gilding room by a modern Revivalist.

An equal amount, perhaps, is worked up into gold foil and used for gilding temples, palaces and the houses of the rich.