The Wealth of the Trades in Early Tudor London

Oldland, John

doi:10.1179/174963206x113142

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“…This point is also reinforced by Peacock, who challenges the misconception that England's cloth went abroad undyed, by illustrating the precocious growth of an export trade in dyed cloth in the Newbury cloth industry by the mid‐sixteenth century. Oldland's research partly reinforces this perception, by stressing the relative strength of the cloth‐exporting, luxury‐importing mercantile elite in early sixteenth‐century London. Using previously disregarded drafts for a 1525 Amicable Grant in the city, Oldland shows that the greater companies contained the most wealth (mercers, drapers, merchant tailors, haberdashers, goldsmiths, and grocers), while the central city wards and waterfront housed these prosperous trades.…”

Section: (Iii) 1500–1700 Henry French Universityof Exetermentioning

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The Economic History Review

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Early Anglo-Saxon settlement sites have been revealed by several excavations. Dickens et al. report a substantial village and associated cemetery at Bloodmoor Hill, Suffolk. Finds included evidence for textile manufacture, but not specialist commodity production; occupation appears to have ceased in the late seventh or early eighth century. The settlement at Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire, published by Murray and McDonald, yielded an enclosed farmstead and cemetery, both in use until c.800. Evidence for textile production and the presence of Ipswich ware suggests the site's participation in an active trading network. Wright, on Orton Waterville, Peterborough, reports a long-lived settlement generating relatively modest material remains. The site at Shepperton, Middlesex, described by Poulton, appears to have been regularly laid out in the later Anglo-Saxon period, replacing a flourishing earlier settlement. Parallel ditches point to the 'toft and croft' arrangement of medieval villages.Debate continues over early population movement. Casting doubt on the historicity of Irish migration to western Britain in the fourth or fifth centuries, Dark postulates the pre-existing presence there of spoken Irish. This would contrast with the evidence for Anglo-Saxon migration, particularly to 'Anglian' areas, considered more secure. Bartholemew offers grounds for identifying 'Angulus', Continental homeland of the Angli described by Bede, as modern Frisia. Possible connections with Procopius's account, usually treated with scepticism, might suggest Frisia as the starting-point for a substantial part of the Anglo-Saxon migration into Britain. Addressing the subject of river-names, generally considered a good indicator of Anglo-Saxon displacement in lowland areas, Yeates offers evidence from the Cotswolds area showing the loss of Brittonic river-names occurring over a far longer period.Though not necessarily incompatible with the orthodox view, this may suggest a greater survival of Brittonic nomenclature originally in the west.In funerary archaeology, Hamerow explores the 'special' deposition of human and animal remains within areas of occupation. The relatively high percentage of dogs and horses, together with cattle, strengthens the impression of ritualistic activity, possibly directed towards fertility, while an association with sunken-featured buildings would make sense if such structures had been used for storage. Reconstructing the ritual of human cremation, Williams places the deceased body at the centre of an elaborate visual spectacle. Rather than a mourner-centred approach to interpretation, the body itself may have had some agency in a complex interrelationship between the living and the dead. Chester-Kadwell, evaluating metal-detector finds in Norfolk, suggests that if used carefully these can supplement the existing corpus of known early cemeteries. Lee's study of textile evidence in funerary contexts shows its value not only in relation to gender but also as an indicator of social status. The model of a 'final phase' o...

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Section: (Iii) 1500–1700 Henry French Universityof Exetermentioning

confidence: 83%

Review of periodical literature published in 2006

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Schofield²,

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The Economic History Review

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“…There were 24 fullers and 57 shearmen making up a total of 81 cloth fi nishers who were assessed with wealth of more than £5 for the amicable grant in 1525, comparing favourably with several merchant companies. 73 The shearmen and fullers had probably considered union many times before but knew that it would be rejected by the court. What may have been different in 1526 is that they felt strong enough to be able to secure a charter behind the backs of the City government.…”

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The London Fullers and Shearmen, and their Merger to Become the Clothworkers' Company

Oldland¹

2008

Textile History

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“…In an assessment of 1525, the average wealth of Fishmongers was £107 and the company's Poor Assessment dues in 1550 were equal with the Goldsmiths; Oldland, ‘Wealth of the trades’, pp. 146–50.…”

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Commerce, clusters, and community: a re‐evaluation of the occupational geography of London, c. 1400–c. 1550

Colson

2015

The Economic History Review

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The economic geography of cities is often thought to have changed dramatically between the medieval and early modern eras. The medieval city is seen as having been strictly regulated, both in terms of markets, and in terms of space. The early modern city, by contrast, is associated not only with growth, but with the breakdown of rigid regulation by guilds and a new commercial outlook. However, empirical studies of the spatial organization of medieval cities have been limited, and quantitative surveys of urban economic geography have focused on the seventeenth century and later. This article analyses the spatial distribution of occupations in the City of London between the 1370s and the 1550s using a large probate dataset. It examines occupations that remained clustered or dispersed, but concentrates on the apparent breakdown in economic clustering among London's leading trades. Prosopographical analysis reveals that merchants and retailers became more specialized, but that this was accommodated within London's existing guild‐based occupational identities, which had become ossified. Rather than the end of the middle ages having marked a dramatic change from guild‐based spatial organisation, occupational clusters simply continued to evolve in line with the principles of locational economics throughout the period.

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The Wealth of the Trades in Early Tudor London

Cited by 6 publications

References 5 publications

Review of periodical literature published in 2006

Review of periodical literature published in 2006

The London Fullers and Shearmen, and their Merger to Become the Clothworkers' Company

Commerce, clusters, and community: a re‐evaluation of the occupational geography of London, c. 1400–c. 1550

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