The Wiltshire Woollen Industry in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth CenturiesFirst published in 1965. This study was initially carried out in the years 1934 to 1937, with completion during 1939 at the outbreak of war which deferred publication. This second edition includes an extra appendix on the report of 'Clothing Committee of the Privy Council' dated 22 June 1622 and more background on the seventeenth and sixteenth centuries. |
Contents
THE LOCATION OF THE WILTSHIRE WOOLLEN INDUSTRY | 1 |
PROCESSES AND TRANSACTIONS FROM WOOL GROWER TO CONSUMER | 6 |
STUMPE AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES | 31 |
IV CUSTOM AND COERCION IN THE WILTSHIRE WOOLLEN INDUSTRY BEFORE THE COCKAYNE EXPERIMENT | 50 |
THE GREAT CRISIS OF THE EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY | 65 |
VI GOVERNMENT AND INDUSTRY DURING THE PERSONAL RULE OF CHARLES I | 85 |
VII THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW PRODUCTS AND MARKETS DURING THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY | 101 |
VIII CHANGES IN THE ORGANIZATION OF THE WILTSHIRE WOOLLEN INDUSTRY DURING THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY | 122 |
THE BLACKBORROW PROSECUTION | 139 |
THE MARKET ABROAD FOR WILTSHIRE CLOTHS IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY | 140 |
REPORT OF THE CLOTHING COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL 22 JUNE 1622 | 147 |
A NOTE ON SOURCES | 154 |
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Acts Alderman Cockayne's Project Aubrey aulnage B.M. Lansdowne Blackwell Hall Bradford Bremhill broadcloth broadcloth industry Calne Castle Combe Chippenham City of London cloth searchers cloth-mark clothmaking Cockayne country clothiers county muniment room County of Wilts Cunnington Devizes dyers Economic History England Exeter export factors Gloucestershire Goldney H.M.C. Wilts Hamburg Henry History of Wiltshire industrial area John K.R. Mem K.R. Port Books L.P. Hen later less London Repertories looms Malmesbury manufacture market spinners Melksham merchant adventurers Notes and Queries passim Potticary pounds Privy Council Register probably quarter sessions reign S.P.D. Chas S.P.D. Eliz sessions great rolls shire sixteenth century Somerset Southampton Spanish cloths Spanish Netherlands Steeple Ashton supra Tawney and Power textile Thomas trade Trowbridge Tudor Econ VIII weavers west country west country broadcloth Westbury white broadcloth William Stumpe Wiltshire clothier Wiltshire cloths Wiltshire justices Wiltshire woollen industry Wither wool wool broggers yarn