Chapter One. Motives of the Merchants Adventurers for Shifting Their Marts, and Their Criteria of Site Selection

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Illustrations and Tables VIII
4. Acknowledgements XII
5. Introduction 1
6. Chapter One. Motives of the Merchants Adventurers for Shifting Their Marts, and Their Criteria of Site Selection 7
7. Chapter Two. The State of the Art of Finishing Techniques for English Woollens Used in Germany at the Time 19
8. Chapter Three. Chronicle of Developments in Imports of English Woollens to Germany (1564-1611) 111
9. Chapter Four. The Merchants Adventurers in Germany 145
10. Chapter Five. Centres of the Cloth Trade in Germany (with Antwerp) 217
11. Conclusion 313
12. Appendix 1. Andreas Ryff from Basel: An Example of How the Business of a Cloth Trader “At Second Hand” Was Run 317
13. Appendix 2. Biographical Data on Englishmen Engaged in Trading in Germany – Outside the Mart Towns – in the Latter Half of the Sixteenth and the Early Seventeenth Centuries 327
14. Bibliography 365
15. Index of Places by Country 385
16. Index of Names 400