Gloucester Coastal Port Books, 1575-1765. A summary
Details:
- Author(s) Hussey, David, G J Milne, A P Wakelin & M D G Wanklyn
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1995
- Pages 2nd ed; 115pp
- Publisher Wolverhampton University
- Place Published Dudley
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
- Visit British Library's website
Notes:
First published 1992. The purpose of the publication is 'to present some core data from the Gloucester Port Books Database [created by Wolverhampton University], and at the same time to publicise the sorts of questions that can for the first time be asked of a complete run of coastal port books for a single port'. Has Sections: 'Surviving Gloucester coastal port books'; 'Seasonal variations'; 'Outward voyages'; 'Inward voyages'; 'Masters and merchants'; 'Boats'; 'Analysis of selected traded goods - earthenware, calf skins, fuller's earth, pot clay, tobacco pipe clay, paper'; 'Case studies - cargoes carried by Bridgnorth boats'