The Merchants Adventurers and the Continental Cloth-trade (1560s–1620s)

Contents 6
Illustrations and Tables 9
Acknowledgements 13
Introduction 16
Chapter One. Motives of the Merchants Adventurers for Shifting Their Marts, and Their Criteria of Site Selection 22
Chapter Two. The State of the Art of Finishing Techniques for English Woollens Used in Germany at the Time 34
Chapter Three. Chronicle of Developments in Imports of English Woollens to Germany (1564-1611) 126
Chapter Four. The Merchants Adventurers in Germany 160
Chapter Five. Centres of the Cloth Trade in Germany (with Antwerp) 232
Conclusion 328
Appendix 1. Andreas Ryff from Basel: An Example of How the Business of a Cloth Trader “At Second Hand” Was Run 332
Appendix 2. Biographical Data on Englishmen Engaged in Trading in Germany – Outside the Mart Towns – in the Latter Half of t 342
Bibliography 380
Index of Places by Country 400
Index of Names 415

Contents 6
Illustrations and Tables 9
Acknowledgements 13
Introduction 16
Chapter One. Motives of the Merchants Adventurers for Shifting Their Marts, and Their Criteria of Site Selection 22
Chapter Two. The State of the Art of Finishing Techniques for English Woollens Used in Germany at the Time 34
Chapter Three. Chronicle of Developments in Imports of English Woollens to Germany (1564-1611) 126
Chapter Four. The Merchants Adventurers in Germany 160
Chapter Five. Centres of the Cloth Trade in Germany (with Antwerp) 232
Conclusion 328
Appendix 1. Andreas Ryff from Basel: An Example of How the Business of a Cloth Trader “At Second Hand” Was Run 332
Appendix 2. Biographical Data on Englishmen Engaged in Trading in Germany – Outside the Mart Towns – in the Latter Half of t 342
Bibliography 380
Index of Places by Country 400
Index of Names 415