Maritime Trade of the East Anglian Ports, 1550-1590

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See also the writer's 'Maritime Trade of the East Anglian Ports, 1550-1590', DPhil, 1952, which here is reprinted [long after its completion]. Deals with East Anglian maritime trade largely through the ports of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn, which served Norwich, notably exporting grain and fish. Deals with long distant trade to Western Europe, Baltic and Mediterranean; coastal trade; and shipping. Based on data from port books and customs accounts and offers a critique of these sources. Chapters include: 'Government intervention in the outports' - 'Customs administration and its records' / 'Customs, frauds and smuggling' / 'Government control' / 'The problem of commercial statistics'; 'The ports and their hinterland ' - 'Communications' / 'River trade to Norwich'; 'Foreign trade' - 'The Low Countries' / 'Scotland' / 'Iceland trade' / 'The Hanse, the Eastland trade and beyond' / 'France' / 'Spain, Portugal and the Mediterranean'; 'The coasting trade' - 'Coal' / 'Corn' / Dairy produce' / 'Fish' / 'Iron, timber and naval stores' / 'Miscellaneous shipments'; 'The mechanism of trade' - 'Men of commerce' / 'The companies and interloping' / The business-house' / 'The shipment of a cargo'; 'Maritime affairs' - 'Merchant shipping' / 'Navigation and seamanship' / 'Piracy and its suppression' / 'Voyages' / 'East Anglian harbours'; 'The place of East Anglian ports in the commercial history of the period'. Appendices includes transcriptions from 'Particulars of accounts and port books' kept by water bailiffs at Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn [pp265-95]