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1356

Sir William Percy grants site of present Hall to 3 York merchants

1357

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YAT

The Company is founded, work begins on building the Hall

1430

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National Archives

The Company is renamed the Mistery of Mercers

1472

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Jim Poyner

York Minster is finished after about 250 years of work

1534

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Nikki Bowling

Henry VIII becomes head of the English Church

1581

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MAH

Elizabeth I names the Company 'Merchant Adventurers'

1600

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Nikki Bowling

Elizabethan additions (now the Anterooms) added

1642

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MAH

English Civil War begins. Hall is used as a jail

1722

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MAH

Portrait of King George the first given to the Company

1788

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Nikki Bowling

York dispensary set up in the Undercroft of the Hall

1815

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MAH

The Battle of Waterloo, Wellington defeats Napoleon

1835

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MAH

The Guild loses its monopoly on trading in York

1900

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The Undercroft is no longer used as an almshouse

1952

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Elizabeth II becomes queen

1969

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YCP

Granting of the new coat of arms

2007

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650th Anniversary of the Company and Hall

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