Markets and Merchants of the Late Seventeenth Century. The Marescoe-David letters, 1668-1680
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- Author(s) Roseveare, Henry (ed)
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1987
- Pages 668pp
- Publisher Oxford University Press for British Academy
- Place Published Oxford
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Provides transcriptions [pp221-565] of 480 letters, 1668-80, received by the Marescoes and the Davids from merchants in Western Europe, Iberia and Britain. Provides close details of the conduct by merchants of international trade, and of the M-D business, at a particularly early date. Held in the National Archives, London. Supported by detailed indexes; list of letters; appendices which provide analysis of the business - eg shipping, insurance, freight rates, prices current, etc; and more notably introductory chapters [pp1-207]. The latter are: 'The Marescoes and the Davids'; 'The Marescoe-David Papers'; 'Charles Marescoe's trade, 1664-67'; 'Marescoe & Joye's trade, 1668-70'; 'Leonora Marescoe's trade, 1670-74; 'Jacob David's trade, 1675-80'. Also carries details of profits and losses