Changes and Expansion in the English Cloth Trade in the Seventeenth Century. Alderman Cockayne's project
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- Author(s) Benson, Joel D
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2002
- Pages 127pp
- Publisher Edwin Mellen
- Place Published Lampeter
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Scholarly work providing the 'first modern book-length study of the ill-fated project since Astrid Friis's 'Alderman Cockayne's Project and the Cloth Trade', 1927, which systematically examines relevant available sources and assembles wide-ranging data'. Reappraises its significance especially in terms of the shift of the English cloth industry from heavy cloth to lighter cloth associated with the 'New Draperies'. Chapters include: 'Wool and the woollen cloth trade'; 'The merchant Adventurers under fire'; 'The project'; 'The new company'; 'The project fails'; 'A changing trade'