The White Yard Stoppage

The 4590 stoppage in the Cambridge yards that established the balance between certification and the guilds’ power to refuse work. Guild halls remember it more vividly than civic stone, and every memorial proposal reopens the argument over what it was.

Powers caught up in it

• Blue Kiln
• Stonecourt
• Glassmere
• Guild of Artificers
• White Walls Assay Collegium

Named with it

• Stephen Tey