Documents Illustrating the Overseas Trade of Bristol in the Sixteenth Century
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- Author(s) Vanes, Jean (ed)
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1979
- Pages 196pp
- Publisher Bristol Record Society
- Place Published Bristol
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Largely comprises transcriptions of a varied group of documents [sometimes cut or calendared] detailing a wide range of mercantile activity. They include petitions, letters, charter parties, accounts, etc. Organised in five chapters: 1] 'Sixteenth century Bristol'; 2] 'Trends of trade'; 3] 'The Northern trades' - Ireland, Scotland, Baltic, Scandinavia; 4] 'Trade with France'; 5] 'The Southern trades' - Spain, Portugal, Barbary and Guinea, Italy and the Levant'. Supported by appendices providing statistics re Bristol ships and owners; smuggling; cloth exports; wine imports; valuations for poundage; destination ports for Bristol ships