 Street merchants went door to door selling fish, fruits, vegetables, cheese, milk, chickens, garlic, onions, clothing, and countless other products.Competing with these were mendicants begging for alms, and flocks of sheep, pigs, and cows being driven to the markets.Official news and announcements were made to the Parisians by the guild of town criers, who were first chartered by the king, and then put under the authority of the League of River Merchants.