Book of Privileges of the Merchant Adventurers of England, 1296-1483
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- Author(s) Sutton, Anne F, & Livia Visser-Fuchs (eds)
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2009
- Pages 436pp; illus
- Publisher Oxford University Press for British Academy
- Place Published Oxford
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Provides transcriptions and translations into English of 12 documents comprising the 'Book of Privileges' in the archives of the Worshipful Co of Mercers. The 'privileges' were granted to the Merchant Adventurers Co of England between 1296-1483, although mostly in the late 15th century, by princes of the Low Countries. Also has substantial introduction dealing with the book, its contents and records generally of the Merchant Adventurers. The documents include, for example, 'The Brabant Privileges, 1296 and 1315; The Antwerp Privileges, 1446; The Treaty with Holland, Zeeland and West Friesland, 1445; 'The confirmation of the status of ... merchants trading to Flanders, Brabant, Holland and Zeeland by Edward IV, 1462; List of brokage fees, Antwerp, nd