The Overseas Trade of Boston, 1279-1548

by Robert C. Nash and Stephen H. Rigby

At the start of the fourteenth century, Boston (Lincolnshire), was one of England's largest and wealthiest towns and played a leading role in the country's overseas trade, attracting merchants and commodities from as far afield as Italy, Gascony, the Low Countries, Germany and Scandinavia and was second only to London in many branches of trade. Yet, two centuries later, as the accounts of the royal customs reveal, Boston's overseas trade was of minor...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3412526584
• ISBN13: 9783412526580
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Bohlau Verlag
• Length: 135 Pages
• Weight: 14.39 lbs.