Advance Contracts for the Sale of Wool, c1200-c1327

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See also A R Bell et al, 'English Wool Market, c1230-1327', Cambridge University Press, 2007. The product of a multidisciplinary project 'combining empirical and modern finance research methods to examine the nature and extent of the forward selling' of wool and the efficiency of the market. The data on which based is taken from contract documentation held in the National Archives [of Britain] - E159, E368. This comprises 200 contracts, 1230-1325, of which transcriptions and translations from both Latin and Anglo-Norman French are provided here. Introductory essays cover sources, contracting parties, contracts, notes on weights and measures, glossary [pp i - ix]. The transcriptions / translations form the bulk of the publication [pp1-175]