Customs Accounts of Hull, 1453-1490
Details:
- Author(s) Childs, Wendy R (ed)
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1986
- Pages 284pp; illus
- Publisher Yorkshire Archaeological Society
- Place Published Leeds
Topics:
- Name Taxation agencies
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Mostly comprises transcriptions of 28 'controller's accounts' for various periods within the range 1453-90 [several include those for Scarborough and one Grimsby].There are two introductory chapters, viz: 'The English customs system in the fifteenth century' and 'The customs accounts and the trade of Hull, 1450-1500'. Provides in end tables annual statistics re Hull's total trade, 1450-1500, and re 'Hull's trade paying petty custom, 1540-1500'