The Company of Merchants of the Staple of England, the Merchants of the Staple, also known as the Merchant Staplers, is an English company incorporated...

which were invariably towns, accredited merchants, later to become organized in England as Merchants of the Staple, were required to submit their goods to...

The Staple Swingers, a 1971 soul album by the Staple Singers Merchants of the Staple, an English company which controlled the export of wool to the continent...

Queenborough, in Kent. In 1363 the merchants from the staples of York and Bristol founded a new staple at Calais. The merchants had established a near monopoly...

be reduced to 10 marks (£3, 6s and 8d). Conflict arose with the Merchants of the Staple, who sought to diversify from exporting wool through Calais into...

right accorded to certain ports, the staple ports. It required merchant barges or ships to unload their goods at the port and to display them for sale...

came to the attention of Richard Fermor, a merchant of the Staple at Calais, who brought him to Greenwich in 1525 to present to the King. This comes from...

also lent the new king substantial amounts of money. He was elected mayor again in 1406 and 1419 and during 1407 served as mayor of The Staple at Calais...

the statute) and amplified by the Statute of Merchants 1285, whence its name, and the latter by an act of 1353, which provided that in every staple (i...

A staple fiber is a textile fiber of discrete length. The opposite is a filament fiber, which comes in continuous lengths. Staple length is a characteristic...

The mayor of the Calais Staple was the head of the merchants of English-occupied Calais from 1363 to 1558. The actual rule over Calais was in the hands...

of her family's band The Staple Singers, of which she is the last surviving member. During her time in the group, she recorded the hit singles "I'll Take...

was an English wool merchant who worked for the Company of the Staple at Calais. He left money in his will that was used to found the Loughborough Endowed...

Browne (1410 – 14 April 1489) was Lord Mayor and Merchant of the Staple of Calais, France; and founder of Browne's Hospital, a medieval almshouse and listed...

south-west Europe. In 1436 he served as Constable of the Merchants of the Staple, a key post in the wool export trade, and became a Grocer in 1441, like...

became very wealthy and successful Merchants Taylor and Merchants of the Staple, and Hugh Offley, Draper, who maintained the family connection with Hackney...

member of the Merchants of the Staple. His preserved correspondence with other merchants and suppliers in the 1470s and 1480s provides insight into the trade...

"Here lyeth buried the right worshipful Sir Ralph Warren, knight, alderman, and twice Lord Mayor of London, mercer, Merchant of the Staple at Calais, with...

gained the favour of Queen Mary and Philip II of Spain. He served as Mayor of the Staple of Calais. Tonbridge School, founded by Andrew Judde The Judd School...

control of a war-fleet. They also enabled him to develop close ties with the London corporation of the Merchants of the Staple, a major source of financial...

a wealthy merchant, and besides two houses in London, one in Bishopsgate Street, where he kept his mayoralty, and another in the parish of St Mary-le-Bow...

he was Master of the Ironmongers' Company for a third time. He became Governor of the French Company and of the Merchants of the Staple. Sir Thomas died...

Sir John Fastolf, and the MP and sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, Ralph Ramsey. In March 1404 he was appointed Mayor of the Staple, controlling all wool...

Mayor of Leicester in 1499, was elected M.P. for Leicester in 1504, and was again made mayor in 1510. He was a wool merchant of the Staple of Calais...

one of the leading English Merchants of the Staple and Merchant Adventurers of the mid-16th century, five times Master of the Worshipful Company of Drapers...

Master of the Mercers' Company, also served as Sheriff of London (1555–56), and in 1558 became Lord Mayor of London. He was also a merchant of the Staple and...

Merchant of the Staple in Calais. He was originally from Coventry, but had settled in the parish of St Mary Aldermary. He was six times Master of the Grocers'...

routes. 1319: Company of Merchants of the Staple of England 1407: Company of Merchant Adventurers of London 1553: Company of Merchant Adventurers to New...

in the King's livery of the retinue of Calais, and the mayor of Calais with his brethren, and the commons of Calais, and the merchants of the Staple, stood...

the Great Seal were issued as letters patent. Among the past and present groups formed by royal charter are the Company of Merchants of the Staple of...