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II.46 - Town Life and Trade: Administrative Documents

from Fifteenth Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 January 2024

Edited with Introduction and Notes by
Carolinne White
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
Catherine Conybeare
Affiliation:
Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania
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The section on town life and trade includes an early town charter for Newcastle, an item in a Patent roll recording payment made to a ‘tranter’ who travelled the country sourcing food for the king, rules for a craft Guild in the Records of Leicester, a Close roll in which the king sets the price of wine in London in 1315, and excerpts from the port records of imports and exports, with names of ships, the ship’s owner and the contents of the cargo.

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Print publication year: 2024

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