Credit in the pre-industrial English woollen industry

Zell, Michael

doi:10.1111/j.1468-0289.1996.tb00587.x

Cited by 4 publications

(2 citation statements)

References 6 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…He estimates that £10 was needed to erect a workhouse, £25 to buy equipment, £25-£50 to buy stocks and a further £10-£15 to cover wages laid out before payment was received for cloth. 90 Evidence from Reading and Newbury suggests that merely equipping a small proto-factory with dyeing, weaving and cloth-fi nishing equipment in the early seventeenth century cost in the range of £120 to £190, depending on whether items were purchased new or secondhand. 91 In most cases, start-up costs were undoubtedly spread over a period of years through gradual vertical and horizontal integration.…”

Section: Other Successful Industrial Capitalists In Newbury and Readingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Boom-Time Freaks or Heroic Industrial Pioneers? Clothing Entrepreneurs in Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century Berkshire

Jackson¹

2008

Textile History

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The early emergence of the entrepreneur in the English cloth industry was commemorated by early modern writers such as Skelton, Leland, Deloney, Aubrey, Fuller and Defoe but remains neglected in recent studies exploring industrial expansion and innovation c. 1500-1700. In response to the gap in the current historiography, this article examines the emergence of entrepreneurship, the growth of organizational experimentation and the short-lived development of the proto-factory in the Berkshire towns of Reading and Newbury. It explores the entrepreneurship of industrial capitalists such as John Winchcombe (the illustrious 'Jack of Newbury'), Thomas Dolman, Thomas Aldworth and William Kendrick and the nature of their achievement and motivation.It assesses the impact of market forces, locational advantages, product specialization and social attitudes in unleashing and shaping entrepreneurial investment from the expansion of cloth-making in the towns in the fifteenth century to de-industrialization in the seventeenth century.

show abstract

Section: Other Successful Industrial Capitalists In Newbury and Readingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Boom-Time Freaks or Heroic Industrial Pioneers? Clothing Entrepreneurs in Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century Berkshire

Jackson¹

2008

Textile History

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…48 48 Postan, ‘Credit in medieval trade’; Nightingale, ‘Monetary contraction’; Zell, ‘Credit’; Nightingale, ‘Money and credit’. …”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

The allocation of merchant capital in early Tudor London

Oldland

2010

The Economic History Review

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article is a discussion of the allocation of merchants' capital in early Tudor London among household furnishings, business inventories, debts, orphans' estates, landed property, and other forms of income. Previously, historians had to rely on either goods or income summary assessments in the enrolled subsidy returns to estimate wealth. These newly discovered valuations for 1535 provide quantitative evidence for the enormous importance of credit in trade, and show that merchants, as soon as they could, invested much of their wealth in property.

show abstract

The English Wool Market, c.1230–1327

Bell

Brooks

Dryburgh

2007

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The wool market was extremely important to the English medieval economy and wool dominated the English export trade from the late thirteenth century to its decline in the late fifteenth century. Wool was at the forefront of the establishment of England as a European political and economic power and this 2007 volume was the first study of the medieval wool market in over 20 years. It investigates in detail the scale and scope of advance contracts for the sale of wool; the majority of these agreements were formed between English monasteries and Italian merchants, and the book focuses on the data contained within them. The pricing structures and market efficiency of the agreements are examined, employing practices from modern finance. A detailed case study of the impact of entering into such agreements on medieval English monasteries is also presented, using the example of Pipewell Abbey in Northamptonshire.

show abstract

Credit in the pre-industrial English woollen industry

Cited by 4 publications

References 6 publications

Boom-Time Freaks or Heroic Industrial Pioneers? Clothing Entrepreneurs in Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century Berkshire

Boom-Time Freaks or Heroic Industrial Pioneers? Clothing Entrepreneurs in Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century Berkshire

The allocation of merchant capital in early Tudor London

The English Wool Market, c.1230–1327

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About