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    The medieval English wool trade was one of the most important factors in the medieval English economy. The medievalist John Munro notes that "[n]o form...
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    A wool church is an English church financed primarily by donations from rich merchants and farmers who had benefitted from the medieval wool trade, hoping...
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    materials, such as mineral wool and glass wool, that have some properties similar to animal wool. As an animal fiber, wool consists of protein together...
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  • Laurence of Ludlow (category English merchants)
    Nicholas of Ludlow, a prominent Shropshire wool merchant. He amassed a fortune in the medieval English wool trade and established a career as a money lender...
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    industry and flourished. The medieval English wool trade was one of the most important factors in the medieval English economy. The medievalist John...
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    Countries all involved, though not exclusively, with the English wool trade. The term "wool-stapler" fell out of use during the 20th century. References...
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    Merino (redirect from Merino wool)
    African rams in the medieval period, and English rams from fine-wool breeds in the 15th century.: 9  Although Spain exported wool to England, the Low...
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    Anglia that were prosperous during the peak of the English wool trade have retained many of their medieval buildings: Clare “now an exceptionally attractive...
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    Sheep shearing (category Use British English from August 2011)
    though also of sheep breeding. The medieval English wool trade was one of the most important factors in the English economy. The main sheep-shearing was an...
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  • The Staple (redirect from Wool staple)
    European historiography, the term "staple" refers to the entire medieval system of trade and its taxation; its French equivalent is étape, and its German...
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    the English economy and by 1273 only one-third of the English wool trade was actually controlled by English merchants. Between 1280 and 1320 the trade was...
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  • Theodiscus (category History of the English language)
    fricative. This would be a logical result of the Medieval English wool trade, which brought the English in close linguistic contact with the cloth merchants...
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  • The economics of English towns and trade in the Middle Ages is the economic history of English towns and trade from the Norman invasion in 1066, to the...
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    incorporated into the Swan Hotel in 1963. Lavenham Guildhall Medieval English wool trade The Buildings of England, Suffolk. Nikolaus Pevsner, Yale University...
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    fricative. This would be a logical result of the Medieval English wool trade, which brought the English in close linguistic contact with the cloth merchants...
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  • of the wool trade. Two Birmingham merchants represent Warwickshire at the council held in York in 1322 to discuss the standardisation of wool staples...
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    success, with the economy buoyed by profits from the international wool and cloth trade, but by 1450 the country was in crisis, facing military failure in...
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    growth was facilitated by trade with the continent. The most important exports were unprocessed raw materials, including wool, hides, salt, fish, animals...
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    The Wool Exchange Building in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England is a grade I-listed building built as a wool-trading centre in the 19th century. The grandeur...
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    economic players both as landowners and as middlemen in the expanding wool trade. In particular, the Cistercians led the development of the grange system...
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    at the nearby Quay House. It was officially opened on 21 May. Medieval English wool trade David Cornforth (17 August 2016). "Custom House". Exeter Memories...
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  • Staple (section Trade)
    Merchants of the Staple, an English company which controlled the export of wool to the continent during the late medieval period Staple Design, a visual...
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    for quality Welsh woollen products. Wool processing includes removing the fleece by shearing, classing the wool by quality, untangling, carding and spinning...
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  • Steelyard (category Trading posts of the Hanseatic League)
    Flemish merchants who then controlled the English wool trade. This group from Cologne effectively controlled the trade of Rhine wine and acquired a building...
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    Baa, Baa, Black Sheep (category English nursery rhymes)
    resentment at the heavy taxation on wool. This has been taken to refer to the medieval English "Great" or "Old Custom" wool tax of 1275, which survived until...
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    Middle Ages (redirect from Medieval (term))
    classical culture in Italy. During the last medieval century, naval expeditions in search for new trade routes introduced the Age of Discovery. The Middle...
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    and several parts of England at the end of the medieval period. The raw material was short staple wool, carded and spun into yarn and then woven on a...
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  • Merchants of the Staple (category Economy of medieval England)
    Staplers, is an English company incorporated by Royal Charter in 1319 (and so the oldest mercantile corporation in England) dealing in wool, skins, lead...
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  • and was especially popular at the English court. Sometimes just the hose would have different colours on each leg. Wool remained the most popular fabric...
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  • coarse woollen cloth that was an important component of the textile trade in Medieval England. It derives its name from kersey yarn and ultimately from...
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