Merchants and Merchandise in Seventeenth Century Bristol

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First published 1955. Largely comprises [pp1-274] transcriptions of documents relating to the trading of individual Bristol merchants in the 17th century, the documents being drawn from local and national repositories. They are grouped: 'Apprenticeship and training'; 'Merchants and the freedom of Bristol'; 'Wills and inventories'; 'Miscellaneous economic and social interests'; 'Politics and public affairs'; 'Business documents and miscellaneous records relating to the conduct of trade'; 'Shipping and customs'; 'The trades'. Includes an introduction [pp ix - xxxii] covering: size of merchant community / recruitment, education, training / business organisation / the merchant's trade / profit and loss /miscellaneous economic activities / the merchants and public affairs / merchants and religion / social life of the merchant community'. Its companion volume is P McGrath (ed), 'Records Relating to the Society of Merchant Venturers of the City of Bristol in the Seventeenth Century', 1952