Overseas Trade of Boston in the Reign of Richard II

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Reproduces English translation from Latin or French of customs accounts of port of Boston, 1377-99, when the accounts were particularly comprehensive and when Boston was experiencing prosperity. 'The accounts ... provide a series of snapshots of its [Boston's] trade with Gascony, the Low Countries, the Baltic and Scandinavia'. Documents found in class E122, the National Archives. Provides relatively short introductory text; the transcriptions occupy the bulk of the book