| It stands at the end of mercery Lane, a lofty building with towers at its corners, and two storeys above the archway. |
| The latter have a great many shops of mercery, haberdashery, and millinery. |
| Lydgate, in his ballad, describes the mercers' and haberdashers' stalls as side by side in the mercery in Chepe. |
| An old maid at Vernon had sent her to one of her relatives who in this arcade kept a mercery shop which she desired to get rid of. |
| The Mercers' School was first held in the hospital and then removed to the mercery. |
| To this day Prato is still the headquarters of the Italian mercery and clothing business. |
