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A Bakers' Strike at Chester 1557 Chester, England
A Brief Summary of the Customs and Subsidy Due on Foreign Commodities Brought to the Port of London by John Saunders (12 April 1585) State paper 12 April 1585 Tudor London, England Customs; Foreign Commodities; Port Of London; Revenue; Subsidies
A Capitalist Clothier in Oxfordshire 1538
A Controversy between the Painters and Plasterers of London 1601
A Copie of the First Privileges Graunted by the Emperour of Russia to the English Marchants 1555
A Cotton Trade Partnership 1610
A Discourse of Corporations 1587-89
A Discourse of the Commoditie of the Taking of the Straight of Magellans 1580
A Dispute Over the Collection of Tenths and Fifteenths 1541
A Disreputable Family 1513
A Fraudulent Colliery Manager 1596
A Motion Against Imprisonment (1642) Pamphlet 1642 Stuart London, England Debt imprisonment; Charity; Poor relief; Moral economy
A Playhouse and the Relief of the Finsbury Poor 1600
A Proclamation Concerning the Price of Sugar, 2 May 1544 Westminster, England
A Project for Erecting A Staple at Ipswich 1573
A Reply to the London Complaint against Newcastle
A Sidelight on the Foregoing 1601
A Speciall Direction for Divers Trades 1575-85
A Survey of the Customs at the End of the Fifteenth Century 1473-1502
A Tailor's Complaint and Messenger Fees (The Observator, No. 13, 14 May 1681) Periodical 14 May 1681 Stuart London, England Commodity Exchange; Fees; Fraud; Urban Economy
A Tanner's Apprentice Threatened with Compulsory Service in Husbandry 1563
A Treatise Concerninge the Staple and the Commodities of This Realme 1519-35
A Wool Stapler on His Exchange Transactions 1479 London, England
A Wounded Soldier Examined before the Mayor's Court at Norwich on His Begging 1561 Norwich, England
Abstract of Lord Burghley's Orders to the Port of London on Beer-Export Bonds and Clapboard (10 July 1591) State paper 10 July 1591 Tudor London, England Beer; Bonds; Customs; Port Of London; Shipping; Timber
Act against the Exportation of Gold and Silver 1553
Act Confiscating the Religious Property of Gilds (1 Edw. VI. C. 14) 1547
Act of the Common Council of the City of London against Unlicensed Rag Collectors (25 September 1600) State paper 25 September 1600 Tudor London, England Apprentices; Bridewell; Labor Discipline; London; Rag Trade
Act Ordering Gild Regulations to Be Approved by Justices - 19 Henry VII. C. 7, Re-Enacting 15 Henry VI. C. 6 1504
Act Reserving English Wool for English Clothiers - 4 Henry VII. C. 11 (1489) Law 1489 Tudor London, England
Act Restricting Fees to Be Charged by the Merchant Adventurers - 12 Henry VII. C. 6 1497
Act to Remedy the Decay of Corporate Towns (1 and 2 Philip and Mary, C. 7) 1554
Address of the Maryland Delegates on Grievances, Naval Officers, and Tobacco Salaries (25 March 1698) State paper 25 March 1698 Stuart Maryland, English America Assembly; Colonial Governance; Maryland; Naval Officers; Salaries; Tobacco
Administration of the Poor Law by the West Riding Justices 1598
Administration of the Poor Law by the West Riding Justices (1598) Law 1598 Elizabethan Doncaster, England
Admission to the Freedom of Chester 1557-88 Chester, England
Advantages Received by Norwich from the Strangers 1575 Norwich, England
Agents of Barbados to the Council of Trade and Plantations on Duties, War Losses, and Sugar Decline (6 December 1700) State paper 6 December 1700 Stuart Barbados Barbados; Colonial Trade; Duties; Slavery; Sugar; War Losses; White Servants
Agents of Jamaica to the King on Repeopling the Island, Impressment, and Merchant Shipping (2 February 1699) State paper 2 February 1699 Stuart Jamaica Impressment; Jamaica; Labor; Merchants; Shipping; Soldiers
Agreement between the Town of Colchester and Alien Immigrants 1575
Alien Stationers and Printers 1570-79
Aliens Teaching Their Craft to Englishmen at Norwich 1568 Norwich, England
All is not gould that glisters; Pamphlet 1648 Caroline London, England
Allegations as to the Smuggling of Wool 1582
Amalgamation of Crafts at Kingston-Upon-Hull 1598 Kingston upon Hull, England
Amalgamation of the Leather Working Crafts of London with the Leathersellers' Company 1479-1517 London, England
An Act against deceitfull disorderly and excessive Gameing (1664) Statute 1664 Stuart
An Act against Excessive Fees of Gilds - 22 Henry VIII, C. 4 1531
An Act against importing Cattell from Ireland and other parts beyond the Seas and Fish taken by Forreigners (1665) Statute 1665 Stuart Commodities; Manufacture
An Act against importing of Foreign Wool cards Card wire or Iron wire (1662) Statute 1662 Stuart Commodities; Manufacture
An Act ageynst unlawfull huntinge in any Parck Forrest Chace or other enclosed grownde (1549) Statute 1549 Tudor
An Act for a more speedy and effectuall Proceeding upon Distresses and Avowryes for Rents (1665) Statute 1665 Stuart Land Regime; Property
An Act for a speedie contribuĉon and loan towards the releife of his Majesties distressed Subjects of the Kingdome of Ireland (1640) Statute 1640 Stuart Economic Governance
An Act for advanceing the Sale of Fee-Farme Rents and other Rents (1670) Statute 1670 Stuart Land Regime; Property
An Act for an Additionall Excise upon Beere, Ale and other Liquors (1670) Statute 1670 Stuart Finance; Revenue
An Act for an additionall Excise upon Beere, Ale and other Liquors for Three yeares (1677) Statute 1677 Stuart Finance; Revenue
An Act for ascertaining the Measures of Corne and Salt (1670) Statute 1670 Stuart Commodities; Manufacture
An Act for burying in Woollen (1678) Statute 1678 Stuart Commodities; Manufacture
An Act for Burying in Woollen onely (1665) Statute 1665 Stuart Commodities; Manufacture
An Act for collecting the Duty ariseing by Hearth-money by Officers to be appointed by His Majestie (1664) Statute 1664 Stuart Finance; Revenue
An Act for Confirmacion of some parte of a Charter granted by K. Henrye the Sixt to the Maior Bailiff and Burgesses of the Towne of Southampton, and for Releif of the said Towne (1606) Statute 1606 Stuart Southampton, England Economic Governance
An Act for Confirmation of Leases and Grants from Colledges and Hospitalls (1660) Statute 1660 Stuart Land Regime; Property
An Act for continuing of the Excise till the five and twentyeth day of December One thousand six hundred and sixty (1660) Statute 1660 Stuart Finance; Revenue
An Act for continuing the Excise untill the twentyeth of August One thousand six hundred & sixty (1660) Statute 1660 Stuart Finance; Revenue
An Act for enableing his Majestie to make Leases of his Lands belonging to the Dutchy of Cornwall (1672) Statute 1672 Stuart Land Regime; Property
An Act for encourageing the Manufactures of makeing Linen Cloath and Tapistry (1663) Statute 1663 Stuart Commodities; Manufacture
An Act for enlarging and repairing of Common High wayes (1662) Statute 1662 Stuart Land Regime; Property
An Act for Erecting and Establishing a Post Office (1660) Statute 1660 Stuart Finance; Revenue
An Act for explaining of a Proviso conteyned in an Act, (1670) Statute 1670 Stuart Commodities; Manufacture
An Act for exporting of Beere Ale and Mum (1670) Statute 1670 Stuart Commodities; Manufacture
An Act for granting an additionall Duty to His Majestie upon Wines for Three yeares (1678) Statute 1678 Stuart Finance; Revenue
An Act for Preservation of Fishing in the River of Seaverne (1678) Statute 1678 Stuart River Severn, England/Wales Commodities; Manufacture
An Act for Prohibiting the Planting Setting or Sowing of Tobaccho in England and Ireland (1660) Statute 1660 Stuart Land Regime; Property
An Act for providing Carriage by Land and by Water for the use of His Majesties Navy and Ordnance (1662) Statute 1662 Stuart Economic Governance
An Act for raising Three hundred and ten thousand pounds by an Imposition on Wines and other Liquors (1665) Statute 1665 Stuart Finance; Revenue
An Act for reforming of Abuses committed in the Weight and false Packing of Butter (1662) Statute 1662 Stuart Infrastructure; Market Regulation
An Act for regulateing the Herring and other Fisheries, and for repeale of the Act concerning Madder OR the prevention of abuses in the packing and ordering of Herrings and bringing that Commoditie into... (1663) Statute 1663 Stuart Commodities; Manufacture
An Act for regulateing the Measures and Prices of Coales (1664) Statute 1664 Stuart Infrastructure; Market Regulation
An Act for regulating the Trade of Silk throwing (1662) Statute 1662 Stuart Shipping; Trade
An Act for repeale of a Clause in a former Act to prohibit Salesmen from selling Fatt Cattell (1672) Statute 1672 Stuart Commodities; Manufacture
An Act for restraining the takeing of Excessive Usury (1609) Statute 1609 Stuart Credit; Finance
An Act for revesting the Power of granting Wine Licences in his Majesty his Heires and Successors and for C.II. p. 1. nu. 6. setleing a Recompence on his Royall Highnesse in liew thereof (1670) Statute 1670 Stuart Finance; Revenue
An Act for setling Freedome and Intercourse of Trade between England and Scotland (1665) Statute 1665 Stuart Shipping; Trade
An Act for setling the Proffitts of the Post Office and Power of graunting Wyne Lycences on his Royall Highnes . the Duke of Yorke and the Heires Males of his Body (1663) Statute 1663 Stuart Finance; Revenue
An Act for takeing away the Benefitt of Clergy from such as steale Cloth from the Racke and from such as C. II. shall steale or imbezill his Majestyes Ammunition and Stores. (1670) Statute 1670 Stuart Commodities; Manufacture
An Act for takeing off Aliens Duty upon Commodities of the Growth, Product and Manufacture of the Nation (1672) Statute 1672 Stuart Finance; Revenue
An Act for taking the Accompts of the severall Sums of Money therein menconed (1665) Statute 1665 Stuart Finance; Revenue
An Act for the (regulating ) of the Pilchard Fishing in the Counties of Devon and Cornwall (1662) Statute 1662 Stuart Commodities; Manufacture
An Act for the better Execuĉon of the Statute made in the Three and twentyth yeare of the Queenes Majesties Raigne for the abolyshing of Logwood ats Blockwood, in the dyeng of Cloth Wooll or Yarne (1597) Statute 1597 Tudor Commodities; Manufacture
An Act for the better Observation of the Lords day commonly called Sunday (1677) Statute 1677 Stuart
An Act for the better ordering and regulating of the Office of Clarke of the Market allowed & confirmed by this Car. Statute and and for the reformation of false Weights and Measures (1640) Statute 1640 Stuart Infrastructure; Market Regulation
An Act for the better paveing and cleansing the Streets and Sewers in and about the Citty of London (1670) Statute 1670 Stuart London, England Infrastructure; Market Regulation
An Act for the better preservation of the Game, and for secureing Warrens not inclosed, and the severall Fishings of this Realme (1670) Statute 1670 Stuart
An Act for the better regulating of the Manufacture of Broad Woollen Cloath within the West Riding of the C. II. County of Yorke (1662) Statute 1662 Stuart Commodities; Manufacture
An Act for the better Suppressing of unlicenced Alehouse keepers (1627) Statute 1627 Stuart
An Act for the declaring unlawfull and void the late proceedings touching Ship money and for the vacating of all Records and Processe concerning the same (1640) Statute 1640 Stuart Finance; Revenue
An Act for the Encourageing and increasing of Shipping and Navigation (1660) Statute 1660 Stuart Shipping; Trade
An Act for the Encouragement of Trade (1663) Statute 1663 Stuart Shipping; Trade
An Act for the free bringing in of Gun-powder and Salt peter from Forraign parts and for the free making of Car. Gunpowder in this Realme (1640) Statute 1640 Stuart Commodities; Manufacture
An Act for the further reformacion of sondry abuses comitted on the Lorde Day comonlie called Sonday (1625) Statute 1625 Stuart
An Act for the reforming of some things mistaken in the late Act made this sent Parliament for the granting of four Subsidies (1640) Statute 1640 Stuart Finance; Revenue
An Act for the Regulating of the Trade of Bay makeing in the Dutchy Bay Hall in Colchester (1660) Statute 1660 Stuart Colchester, England Shipping; Trade
An Act for the true makinge of Woollen Clothes (1606) Statute 1606 Stuart Commodities; Manufacture
An Act for vesting certaine Fee-Farme Rents and other small Rents in Trustees (1670) Statute 1670 Stuart Land Regime; Property
An Act for vesting the Arreares of the Excise and New Impost in His Majesty (1660) Statute 1660 Stuart Finance; Revenue
An Act impowering the Master of the Rolls for the time being to make Leases for yeares in order to new build C. II . the old houses belonging to the Rolls (1660) Statute 1660 Stuart Land Regime; Property
An Act of Explanacon of a former Act made in the three and twentith yeare of the Raigne of the late Queene of famous Memory Elizabeth entitled An Act for assurance of the yearly Rent of fower score Twoe pound... (1624) Statute 1624 Stuart Land Regime; Property
An Act takeing away the Court of Wards and Liveries and Tenures in Capite and by Knights Service and C. II . Purveyance, and for setling a Revenue upon his Majesty in Lieu thereof (1660) Statute 1660 Stuart Finance; Revenue
An Act to explaine a former Act made the last Sersion of this Parliament, intituled An Act to enable all his Majesties lovinge Subject of England and Wales to trade freelic into the Domynions of Spaine Portugale (1606) Statute 1606 Stuart Shipping; Trade
An Act to make Prize Ships free for Trade (1665) Statute 1665 Stuart Shipping; Trade
An Act to prevent Fraudes in the buying and selling of Cattell in Smithfeild and elsewhere (1670) Statute 1670 Stuart Commodities; Manufacture
An Act to prevent the delivering up of Merchants Shipps (1664) Statute 1664 Stuart Shipping; Trade
An Act to prevent the Disturbances of Seamen and others and to preserve the Stores belonging to His Majesties Navy Royall (1665) Statute 1665 Stuart Shipping; Trade
An Act to pvent the planting of Tobacco in England, and for regulateing the Plantation Trade (1670) Statute 1670 Stuart Shipping; Trade
An Act to regulate the Trade of Silk Throwing (1662) Statute 1662 Stuart Shipping; Trade
An Act to restrayne the Utterance of Beere and Ale to Alehouse-keepers and Tiplers not licenced (1606) Statute 1606 Stuart Commodities; Manufacture
An Act to revive an Act, Entituled An Act to prevent the disturbances of Seamen and others, and to preserve the Stores belonging to his Majestyes Navy Royall, with some Alterations and Additions (1670) Statute 1670 Stuart Shipping; Trade
An Act towching Leases hereafter to bee made by certaine Spirituall Psons (1554) Statute 1554 Tudor Land Regime; Property
An Acte against Usury and Unlawfull Bargaynes - 3 Henry VII., C. 6 1487
An Acte against Vacabounds and Beggers - 11 Henry VII., C. 2 1495
An Acte againste unlawfull hunting and stealing of Deere and Connies (1605) Statute 1605 Stuart
An Acte Agaynst Pullyng Doun of Tounes - 4 Henry VII, C. 19 1489
An Acte aginst the deceitfull stretching and taintering of Northerne Cloth (1597) Statute 1597 Tudor Commodities; Manufacture
An Acte for a Subsidye of Tonnage and Pondage of Marchundizes (1547) Statute 1547 Tudor Customs; Trade
An Acte for Kepers of Alehouses to be bounde by Recognizauncf (1551) Statute 1551 Tudor
An Acte for Punyshment of Rogues, Vagabondes and Sturdy Beggars - 39 Elizabeth, C. 4 1597
An Acte for repressinge the odious and loathsome synne of Drunckennes (1606) Statute 1606 Stuart
An Acte for Tenures holden in Capite (1547) Statute 1547 Tudor Land Regime; Property
An Acte for the Advoyding of Dyvers Forreyne Wares Made by Handye Craftesmen Beyonde the Seas - 5 Elizabeth, C. 7 1563
An Acte for the assuraunce to the Tenntes of Graunte and Leases made of the Duke of Somsette demene Londe (1548) Statute 1548 Tudor Land Regime; Property
An Acte for the better execution of the intent and meaninge of former Statutes made againste shootinge in Gunnes, and for the Pservation of the Game of Phesantes and Partridges, and againste the destroyinge... (1604) Statute 1604 Stuart
An Acte for the buyinge of Rother Beast and Cattell (1549) Statute 1549 Tudor Commodities; Manufacture
An Acte for the enabling and confirmacion of an agreement or composicion made betweene the King Majesties Comissioners of Revenue, his Majestie then being Prince of Wales Duke of Cornewall and Earle of... (1625) Statute 1625 Stuart Finance; Revenue
An Acte for the Explanacion of one Statute made in the Second Session of this sent Parliament, intituled An Acte against unlawfull huntinge and stealinge of Deere and Conyes (1609) Statute 1609 Stuart
An Acte for the free Trade of Weich Clothes (1623) Statute 1623 Stuart Shipping; Trade
An Acte for the further restraint of Tipling in Innes, Alehouses, and other Victualling Houses (1625) Statute 1625 Stuart
An Acte for the incouraginge of many poore People in Cumberland and Westmerland, and in the Townes and Parishes of Carptmeale Hawkeshead and Broughton, in the Countie of Lancaster, to contynue their Trade of... (1609) Statute 1609 Stuart Cumberland / Westmorland / Lancashire, England Shipping; Trade
An Acte for the Maintenance of Husbandrie & Tillage. (39 Eliz., C. 2) 1597-98
An Acte for the Mayntenaunce of the Navye 1540
An Acte for the Punishement of Vacabondes, and for Releif of the Poore and Impotent - 14 Elizabeth, C. 5 1572
An Acte for the punishinge and correctinge of Deceipt and Fraudes comitted by Sorters Kembers and Spinsters of Wooll and Weavers of Woollen Yarne (1609) Statute 1609 Stuart Commodities; Manufacture
An Acte for the reedifying of a Bridge over the River of Seaverne, neere the Towne of Upton upon Scaverne (1605) Statute 1605 Stuart Upton upon Severn, England Infrastructure; Market Regulation
An Acte for the Releife of Patentees Tenaunt & Farmors of Crowne Land in Cases of Forfeyture (1623) Statute 1623 Stuart Economic Governance
An Acte for the Reliefe of suche as lawfully use the Trade and Handicrafte of Skynners (1605) Statute 1605 Stuart Shipping; Trade
An Acte for the Reliefe of the Poore - 39 Elizabeth, C. 3 1597
An Acte for the setling and confirmacion of Coppihold Estates and Customes of the Tennte in base tenure of the Mannor of Cheltenham in the Countie of Glouč and of the Mannor of Asheley otherwise called... (1625) Statute 1625 Stuart Cheltenham, England Land Regime; Property
An Acte for the Setting of the Poore on Worke, and for the Avoyding of Ydlenes - 18 Elizabeth, C. 3 1576
An Acte for the true gawginge of Vesselles brought from beyonde the Seas, converted by Brewers for the Utteraunce and Sale of Ale and Beare (1588) Statute 1588 Tudor Commodities; Manufacture
An Acte for Thinhabitantes of Halyfaxe Touching the Byeng of Woolles " (2 & 3 Philip and Mary, C. 13) 1555 Halifax, England
An Acte to enable all his Majesties loving Subject of Englande and Wales to trade freely into the Dominions of Spaine Portugale and France (1605) Statute 1605 Stuart Shipping; Trade
An Acte to encourage the Seamen of England to take Fishe, wherebie they may encrease to furnishe the Navie of England (1603) Statute 1603 Stuart Shipping; Trade
An Acte to make voyde dyvers Lycences of Houses wherin unlawfull Games bee used (1554) Statute 1554 Tudor
An Acte to redresse the Misemployment of Landes Goodes and Stockes of Money heretofore given to (1601) Statute 1601 Tudor Finance; Revenue
An Acte to restraine Abuses of Players (1606) Statute 1606 Stuart
An Acte to Restrayne Carrieng of Corne Victuals and Wood Over the Sea (1 & 2 Philip and Mary, C. 5) 1555
An Acte touching Cloth making in Corporate Townes and Market Townes (1554) Statute 1554 Tudor Commodities; Manufacture
An Acte Touching Weavers - 2 & 3 Philip and Mary, C. 11 1555
An Acte touchinge Leases of Benefices and other Eccfiasticall Living with Cure (1599) Statute 1599 Tudor Land Regime; Property
An Acte Towching Badgers of Corne and Drovers of Cattell to Bee Lycensed (5 Eliz. C. 12) 1563 Westminster, England
An Acte Towching Certayne Politique Constitutions Made for the Maintenance of the Navye - 5 Elizabeth, C. 5 1563
An ACTs for Reformacion of Alehouse Keepers (1609) Statute 1609 Stuart
An Acts for repairing of the Highway from Nonsuch to Taleworthe, in the Parishes of Ewell and Longditton, in the County of Surrey, leading to Kingston upon Thames in the County aforesaide (1605) Statute 1605 Stuart Ewell / Long Ditton / Kingston upon Thames, England Infrastructure; Market Regulation
An Acts for the erectinge and buyldinge of a Bridge over the Ryver at Wye, at Wylton upon Wye neare the Towne of Rosse in the County of Hereforde (1597) Statute 1597 Tudor Wilton on Wye / Ross-on-Wye, England Infrastructure; Market Regulation
An Acts for the newe making up & keeping in Reparacon of Chepstow Bridge (1605) Statute 1605 Stuart Chepstow, Wales Infrastructure; Market Regulation
An ACTs for Transportacon of Beere over the Seas (1605) Statute 1605 Stuart Economic Governance
An Acts to restraine the inordinate hauntinge and tiplinge in Innes Alehouses and other Victuallinge Houses (1603) Statute 1603 Stuart
An Agreement between the Western Clothiers and the Merchant Adventurers 1586
An Alien Craftsman's Will 1557 London, England
An Alien Glass Manufacturer's Difficulties 1568-71
An Industrial Programme 1559
An Order to Apprehend English Pirates Who Have Plundered A Spanish Vessel 1547
Answer to A Similar Protest from Lynn, 17 May 1587
Anthony Gamage and Other London Linen Retailers to Secretary Wilson against an Exclusive France Trade Corporation (10 March 1579) State paper 10 March 1579 Tudor London, England France Trade; Linen Trade; Mere Merchants; Monopoly; Retail
Application of French Capitalists to Retain Their Patent to Manufacture Steel, C. 1603-6 1603
Arbitration Award on Dispute Concerning Labour Services, Sept 1556
Arguments for an Exclusive Trade with the Barbary States (1574) State paper 1574 Tudor London, England Barbary Trade; Corporate Privilege; Exclusive Trade; Monopoly; Overseas Trade
Arguments for and against Incorporating the Barbary Merchants 1582
Arguments in Favour of Establishing Wednesday as An Additional Fish Day, February 1563
Arguments in Favour of Granting A Monopoly to An Incorporated Company to Make Paper 1586
Arguments in Favour of the Proposal to Establish A Staple of Cottons and Friezes at Chester 1582 Chester, England
Articles against the Merchant Adventurers on the Export of Undressed Cloth (31 May 1599) State paper 31 May 1599 Tudor London, England Cloth; Customs; Export Regulation; London; Merchant Adventurers
Assessment of Wages and Other Regulations Made by the Justices of the Peace for Buckinghamshire 1561
Assessment of Wages by the Mayor and Other Justices of the Peace in the City of London 1586 London, England
Bank Note Loss Reward Notice (14 December 1699) Gazette 14 December 1699 Stuart Bush Lane, London, England Banking; Finance; Paper Credit; Reward
Bank of England Quarterly Court Notice (4 December 1699) Gazette 4 December 1699 Stuart Bank of England, London, England Banking; Companies; Finance; Governance
Bastard's Epigram on the Monopolies 1598
Bastard's Epigrams on Enclosures 1598
Benedick Spinola Convicted of Defrauding the Customs 1561 London, England
Bermuda Assembly Reply on Tobacco Export Duties, Liquor Taxes, Coin, and Slave Compensation (1 November 1698) State paper 1 November 1698 Stuart Bermuda Bermuda; Coin; Infrastructure; Slavery; Taxation; Tobacco
Bevis Bulmer to the Queen on Wine Impost Revenue in the Port of London (20 July 1598) State paper 20 July 1598 Tudor London, England Impost; Port Of London; Revenue; Taxation; Wine
Bishop Latimer on the Base Testons 1549
Bishop Ridley to Cecil on the Same Subject 1552
Bond of Apprenticeship to A Baker, Feb. 23 1531
Book of Orders Printed book 1586, 1594, 1595, 1600, 1608, 1622, 1630, 1631 Elizabethan, Jacobean, Caroline England Agriculture
Border Tenure 1577
Boston Customs Officers to Lord Burghley on Licences for Beer, Cloth, and Grain (6 April 1597) State paper 6 April 1597 Tudor Boston, Lincolnshire, England Beer; Boston; Cloth; Customs; Grain; Licensing
Bristol Virginia and Nevis Shipping Notice (5 June 1700) Gazette 5 June 1700 Stuart Bristol, England Nevis; Ports; Shipping; Virginia
Broadway Worcestershire Estate Sale Notice (20 November 1699) Gazette 20 November 1699 Stuart Broadway, Worcestershire, England Chancery; Landholding; Leases; Property
Census of Inhabitants and Provisions Taken During A Dearth in Coventry, Oct. 10 1520 Coventry, England
Certaine Directions Given by M. Richard Hackluit of the Middle Temple, to M. Morgan Hubblethorne, Dier, Sent into Persia 1579
Certificate of Beggars Taken in the First Watch at Southcley (Notts), 20 Aug 1571
Certificate of Commissioners Concerning Search for Corn 1527
Certificate of the Increase of Fishing Boats since the Passing of 5 Elizabeth, C. 5, 10 March 1576
Charles I Person 1600-1649 Elizabethan, Jacobean, Caroline Fife, Scotland
Charles II Person 1630-1685 Caroline, Restoration London, England
Charles King Bankruptcy Notice (20 November 1699) Gazette 20 November 1699 Stuart Winslow, Buckinghamshire, England Bankruptcy; Credit; Debt; Petty Trade
Charly Mannor Brine and Salt Works Notice (9 May 1700) Gazette 9 May 1700 Stuart Charley Manor, Staffordshire, England Extraction; Infrastructure; Manufacture; Salt
Charter to Merchants Trading to Andalusia 1531
Collection by Patentees of Fines for Breach of Statutory Obligation to Grow Hemp 1592
Commercial Arguments for Maintaining An English Agent in Turkey 1587-88
Commercial Questions in Dispute between Spain and England 1564
Commission for Relief of Poor Prisoners Confined for Debt in the Queen's Bench (7 May 1576) State paper 7 May 1576 Tudor London, England Debt; London; Poor Prisoners; Queen S Bench; Relief
Common Interest and Another Interest (The Observator, No. 202, 21 August 1686) Periodical 21 August 1686 Stuart London, England Common Interest; Faction; Popular Politics; Political Economy
Complaint of A False Accusation of Usury Under 13 Elizabeth, C. 8 1574
Complaint of Members of the London Founders' Craft, Alleging Unreasonable Ordinances by Their Wardens 1507 London, England
Complaint of the Citizens of London against Aliens
Complaint of the Cornish Tinners 1595
Complaint of the Joint Stock Monopoly of the Muscovy Company 1604 London, England
Complaint of the Lord Mayor of London against the New- Castle Coal Monopoly, C. April 1590
Complaint of the Shoemakers of Norwich against Their Journeymen 1490
Complaints by the Hansards 1540
Complaints of Speculation in Wool 1577
Contraband Trade between England and Spain 1593
Contract by Aliens to Introduce Glassmaking, April 22
Council of Trade and Plantations to the Earl of Jersey on Royal African Company Rights and Foreign Trade (2 December 1699) State paper 2 December 1699 Stuart Whitehall, London, England Africa; Companies; Empire; Foreign Trade; Monopoly
Council of Trade and Plantations to the King on Pirate-Trial Commissions in America (5 June 1700) State paper 5 June 1700 Stuart Whitehall, London, England Admiralty; Customs; Imperial Governance; Piracy; Plantation Trade
Council of Trade and Plantations to the King on the William and Jane Seizure and African Trade (28 June 1700) State paper 28 June 1700 Stuart Whitehall, London, England Africa; Companies; Empire; Maritime Conflict; Slavery
Council of Trade and Plantations to the Lords Justices on Securing the Plantation Trade (27 October 1698) State paper 27 October 1698 Stuart Whitehall, London, England Colonial Trade; Customs; Imperial Governance; Plantation Trade; Whitehall
Council of Trade and Plantations to the President and Council of Barbados on the African Company and Negro Supply (19 May 1698) State paper 19 May 1698 Stuart Barbados Africa; Barbados; Colonial Trade; Companies; Empire; Slavery
Crowley on Almshouses and Beggars 1550
Crowley on the Causes of Ket's Rebellion 1550
Crowley on the Collier of Croydon 1550
Crowley on Usurers 1550
Crowley's Epigrams on Forestallers, Leasemongers and Rent Raisers 1550
Cryes of the City of London Printed book 1687 Restoration London, England
Customs and Wool-Smuggling Murder Reward Notice (13 May 1700) Gazette 13 May 1700 Stuart Tunserd-Bridge, Kent, England Coercion; Customs; Smuggling; Wool
Customs Officers in the Port of Milford to Lord Burghley on a Wheat Victualling Licence (10 April 1597) State paper 10 April 1597 Tudor Milford Haven, Wales Customs; Ireland; Licensing; Milford; Victualling; Wheat
Dangers of Unregulated Trade to Barbary and Request for A Monopoly 1574
Daniel Hochstetter to Johan Lowver on Difficulties at the Keswick Mines, Oct. 10 1566 Keswick, England
Daniel Parke to the Council of Trade and Plantations on Virginia Tobacco Duties and Illegal Trade (11 July 1698) State paper 11 July 1698 Stuart Virginia, English America Customs; Empire; Illegal Trade; Tobacco; Virginia
Datchet Ferry Place 1200-1706 Late Medieval-Early Modern Datchet, England
Deal East Indies and Guinea Shipping Notice (25 November 1699) Gazette 25 November 1699 Stuart Deal, Kent, England East Indies; Guinea; Maritime Trade; Shipping
Debasement of the Irish Coinage by Elizabeth 1600
Debate in the House of Commons on the Subsidies, March 1593
Debate on the Usury Bill in the House of Commons 1571
Deposition of Humphrey Perkins on New York, Curacao, and Barbados Trade (6 October 1698) State paper 6 October 1698 Stuart New York, English America Barbados; Curacao; Intercolonial Trade; Molasses; New York; Rum; Sugar
Discussion of Usury, with Proposal to Nationalize Exchange Business 1570
Dispute between the Livery and Commonalty of the Goldsmiths' Company 1529
Downs East Indies and Guinea Shipping Notice (15 December 1699) Gazette 15 December 1699 Stuart Deal, Kent, England East Indies; Guinea; Ports; Shipping
Draft Bill Fixing Minimum Rates for Spinners and Weavers and Restraining Speculation in Yarn, April
Draft of A Letter from the Queen to the Governor of the Merchant Adventurers at Antwerp, on the Payment of the Royal Debts, 28 Aug 1560
Draft Proclamation to Prevent the Exportation of Newcastle Coal 1592 Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Drury Lane Fire Relief Brief Notice (18 May 1699) Gazette 18 May 1699 Stuart Drury Lane, London, England Charity; Disaster; Poor Relief; Urban Economy
Dudley's Warning to the People against Rebellion 1509-10
Dutch West India Company Charter Renewal Notice (27 November 1699) Gazette 27 November 1699 Stuart The Hague, Dutch Republic Charter; Colonial Trade; Companies; Governance
Earl of Bellomont to the Council of Trade and Plantations on New York Customs Revenue and Island Trade (5 January 1700) State paper 5 January 1700 Stuart New York, English America Colonial Trade; Customs; Molasses; New York; Rum; State Finance; Sugar; Wine
Earl of Bellomont to the King on American Revenue, Piracy, and Unlawful Trade (19 October 1700) State paper 19 October 1700 Stuart New York, English America Empire; New York; Piracy; Revenue; Sugar; Tobacco; Unlawful Trade
East India Company Adventurers General Court Notice (13 November 1699) Gazette 13 November 1699 Stuart Leadenhall Street, London, England Companies; East India; Finance; Governance
East India Company and General Society Meeting Notice (4 December 1699) Gazette 4 December 1699 Stuart Skinners' Hall, London, England Companies; East India; Finance; Governance
East India Company Bond Loss Reward Notice (4 December 1699) Gazette 4 December 1699 Stuart Leadenhall Street, London, England Bonds; Companies; Finance; Reward
East India Company Borrowing on Common Seal Notice (28 December 1699) Gazette 28 December 1699 Stuart London, England Borrowing; Companies; East India; Finance
East India Company Dividend Warrants Notice (11 December 1699) Gazette 11 December 1699 Stuart London, England Companies; Dividends; East India; Finance
East India Company General Court Notice (11 December 1699) Gazette 11 December 1699 Stuart Skinners' Hall, London, England Companies; East India; Finance; Governance
East India Company Vacancy and General Society Trustee Notice (16 May 1700) Gazette 16 May 1700 Stuart Skinners' Hall, London, England Colonial Trade; Companies; Empire; Governance
East India Company Vacancy Notice (13 May 1700) Gazette 13 May 1700 Stuart Skinners' Hall, London, England Colonial Trade; Companies; Empire; Governance
Edward Hext, Justice of the Peace in Somerset, to Burghley on the Increase of Rogues and Vagabonds 1596
Edward Randolph to the Council of Trade and Plantations on Tobacco Revenue Losses and Illegal Trade (5 November 1700) State paper 5 November 1700 Stuart Virginia, English America Colonial Trade; Maryland; North Carolina; Revenue; Smuggling; Tobacco; Virginia
Edward Randolph to William Popple on Illegal Trade in New York and the Jerseys (12 September 1698) State paper 12 September 1698 Stuart New York, English America Colonial Trade; Customs; Imperial Governance; New Jersey; New York; Smuggling
Elizabethan Vagabonds Acts Law 1572, 1597 Elizabethan London, England
Enclosing Abbots 1527-28
Enclosure of Commons and Oppression of Copyholders
Enclosures near London 1514 London, England
Enclosures, Evictions and Other Oppressions by Grantee of Estates of Dissolved Monastery of Syon, temp. Henry VIII
English Company trading to the East-Indies By-Laws Notice (25 May 1699) Gazette 25 May 1699 Stuart Skinners' Hall, London, England Colonial Trade; Companies; Empire; Finance
English Company trading to the East-Indies General Court Notice (18 May 1699) Gazette 18 May 1699 Stuart Skinners' Hall, London, England Colonial Trade; Companies; Empire; Finance
Epsom Plates Horse Race Notice (20 May 1700) Gazette 20 May 1700 Stuart Epsom Downs, Surrey, England Entry Fees; Horse Racing; Leisure; Prizes
Estimates of Exports of Wool and Cloth and of Number of Sheep: Proposals for A Subsidy, 6 Ост 1547
Eufchius Hunt Bankruptcy Notice (18 May 1699) Gazette 18 May 1699 Stuart Stamford, Lincolnshire, England Bankruptcy; Credit; Debt; Merchants
Evil Effects of the Debasement of the Coinage Noted in Contemporary Chronicles 1550
Evil May Day 1517
Extract from 'An Acte Conteynyng A Graunte of Subsedy Unto the Kinges Highnes for A Xv and Xth' - 26 Henry VIII, C. 19 1534
Extract from Henry Arth's Tract, Provision for the Poore 1597
Extract from John Howes' First Familiar and Frendely Discourse Dialogue Wyse 1582
Extract from Peckham's Discourse of the Necessitie and Commoditie of Planting English Colonies upon the North Partes of America 1583
Extract from William Forrest's The Pleasaunt Poesye of Princelie Practise 1548
Extracts from Letters Written by Refugee Strangers at Norwich to Their Friends and Relations at Ypres 1567 Norwich, England
First Appointment of the Commissioners for the Repression of Piracy, 8 Nov 1565
First Arrival in England of Spices Brought by the Cape Route 1504
First Debasement of the Coinage by Henry VIII 1526
Fitzherbert on the Benefits of Enclosure 1539
Fleetwood to Burghley on A School for Pickpockets in London, 7 July 1585 London, England
Forced Sale of A Foreign Cargo of Grain in Time of Scarcity 1597
Friendly Society Fire Loss Assessment Notice (20 May 1700) Gazette 20 May 1700 Stuart Palsgrave Court, London, England Finance; Fire; Insurance; Urban Risk
Governor Nicholson to the Council of Trade and Plantations on Virginia Revenue and Tobacco Exports (1 July 1699) State paper 1 July 1699 Stuart Virginia, English America Colonial Governance; Quit Rents; Revenue; Tobacco; Virginia
Governor Sir William Beeston to the Council of Trade and Plantations on Impressment and Jamaica Trade (24 August 1699) State paper 24 August 1699 Stuart Jamaica Colonial Trade; Impressment; Jamaica; Merchants; Shipping
Grant of A Patent to Make Iron with Coal, 9 Oct 1589
Greater London 1590 London, England
Gresham to Cecil Suggesting That the Merchant Adventurers Should Be Used to Pay the Queen's Foreign Creditors, 1 March 1559
Gresham to Queen Elizabeth on the Fall of the Exchanges 1558
Gresham's Instructions on Being Sent into Spain 1554
Grievances of the Northern Merchants against the London Merchant Adventurers 1478
Grievances of the Northern Merchants against the London Merchant Adventurers (1478) Document 1478 Yorkist London, England
Grievances of Weavers of Suffolk and Essex 1539
Guicciardini's Description of the Trade of Antwerp 1560 Antwerp, Belgium
Harrison on Changes in His Day 1577-87
Harrison on Faires and Markets 1577-87
Henry Clerke Bankruptcy Dividend Notice (20 November 1699) Gazette 20 November 1699 Stuart Guildhall, London, England Bankruptcy; Credit; Debt; Dividend
Henry VIII's Charter to Trinity House 1514
High Prices and Depreciation in Norwich 1551 Norwich, England
Highgate Copyhold House Lease and Sale Notice (25 May 1699) Gazette 25 May 1699 Stuart Highgate, London, England Copyhold; Leasehold; Property; Urban Fringe
Horse Racing Activity Newmarket, England Gambling
House of Burgesses of Virginia on Coin Values, Quit-Rents, and Tobacco (9 May 1699) State paper 9 May 1699 Stuart Virginia, English America Coinage; Land; Quit Rents; Regulation; Tobacco; Virginia
Howe to Reforme the Realme in Settyng Them to Werke and to Restore Tillage 1535-36
Injury Done to the Merchant Adventurers' Company by Members Trading Direct with Spain 1579
Inquiry of the Privy Council and Reply of the Lord Mayor Concerning the Food Supply of the City of London 1573-74 London, England
Instructions to Samuel Day as Governor of Bermuda on Tobacco Export Duties (17 January 1698) State paper 17 January 1698 Stuart Bermuda Bermuda; Colonial Governance; Export Duty; Tobacco
Instructions to the Enclosure Commissioners Appointed June, 1548, and Hale's Charge to the Juries Impanelled to Present Enclosures 1548
Intervention of the Privy Council in A Case of Usury 1601
Introduction of Strangers from the Low Countries to Norwich 1564 Norwich, England
Iron Works in Sussex and Wastage of Timber 1548-49
John Barton Bankruptcy Notice (18 May 1699) Gazette 18 May 1699 Stuart Macclesfield, Cheshire, England Bankruptcy; Credit; Debt
John Bayker to Henry VIII. on One Cause of Poverty 1538
John Hale Chancery Creditors Notice (4 December 1699) Gazette 4 December 1699 Stuart Hertford, Hertfordshire, England Chancery; Credit; Debt; Property
John Hales on the Unwisdom of A New Imposition on Cloth, 20 March 1559
John Howes' Second Famyliar and Frendly Discourse Dialogue Wyse 1587
John Lawrence Bankruptcy Dividend Notice (25 May 1699) Gazette 25 May 1699 Stuart Guildhall, London, England Bankruptcy; Debt; Dividend; Wine Trade
Joshua Monger Bankruptcy Dividend Notice (18 May 1699) Gazette 18 May 1699 Stuart London, England Bankruptcy; Credit; Debt; Dividend
Lead and Copper Mining: the Shortage of Capital 1584
Lead Miners of Yorkshire V. the Merchants of York
Leake's Treatise on the Cloth Industry, with Proposals for the Reform of Abuses 1577
Letter from Alderman Box to Sir William Cecil Proposing Compulsory Division and Survey of Wastes 1576
Letter from Mr. Vernon Enclosing Advice to the Royal African Company on Pirates on the Coast of Africa (28 March 1699) State paper 28 March 1699 Stuart London, England Africa; Companies; Empire; Piracy; Royal African Company
Letter from the Mayor of Exeter on Behalf of George and Ede Sampforde Travelling in Search of Work 1576 Exeter, England
Letter from the Queen to Lord Scrope and the Justices of Cumberland and Westmorland, Ordering Them to Protect the German Miners 1566
Letter of Privy Seal to Roger Columbell, Requesting A Loan, Jan., 1588 ; with Receipt, April 1588
Letter to Burghley from A Member of Parliament on the Depopulation Bill of 1597 1597
Letters Patent of Henry VII. to John Cabot and His Sons, 5 March 1496
Licence to A Badger 1607
Licence to Export Grain in Time of Plenty, 11 Oct 1579
List of Strangers at Colchester 1571 Colchester, England
Lord Burghley to the Customers and Others of the Port of London on Casks and Clapboards (1586) State paper 1586 Tudor London, England Beer Export; Bonds; Clapboards; Navy; Port Of London
Luke Browne Exeter Bankruptcy Dividend Notice (28 December 1699) Gazette 28 December 1699 Stuart Exeter, Devon, England Bankruptcy; Debt; Grocers; Provincial Trade
Malynes on the Exchanges 1601
Manchester Cottons 1595 Manchester, England
Marine Coffee House Woollen Goods Sale Notice (6 June 1700) Gazette 6 June 1700 Stuart Marine Coffee-House, London, England Auction; Coffeehouses; Retail; Woollens
Mary and Frances Guinea Cargo Sale Notice (14 December 1699) Gazette 14 December 1699 Stuart Marine Coffee-House, Birchin Lane, London, England Auction; Cargoes; Commodities; Guinea Trade
Memorandum by Cecil on the Export Trade in Cloth and Wool 1564
Memorandum on the Reasons Moving Queen Elizabeth to Reform the Coinage 1559
Memorandum on the Statute of Artificers 1573
Memorandum on the Weight, Quality and Prices of Different Kinds of Cloth, and of the Duties upon Them
Memorandum Prepared for the Royal Commission on the Exchanges 1564
Memorial of Benjamin Harrison on Trade and Revenue in Virginia (11 July 1698) State paper 11 July 1698 Stuart Virginia, English America Customs; Governance; Revenue; Tobacco; Virginia
Memorial of James Thynne and William Mead to Governor Codrington on Plantation-Trade Oaths in the Leeward Islands (11 February 1698) State paper 11 February 1698 Stuart Leeward Islands Customs; Imperial Governance; Leeward Islands; Nevis; Plantation Trade; St Kitts
Memorial of Mr. Puckle and Partners on Settling Tobago for Trade (10 May 1699) State paper 10 May 1699 Stuart Tobago Colonial Trade; Cotton; Empire; Settlement; Sugar; Tobacco; Tobago
Merchant Shipping Passes for Algiers Trade Notice (9 June 1700) Gazette 9 June 1700 Stuart Hampton Court, England Mediterranean; Plantations; Regulation; Shipping
Micrographia Printed book 1665 Restoration London, England Improvement
Miles Mosse's Arraignment and Conviction of Vsurie 1595
Minutes of Council of Barbados on the Excise Bill and a Muscovado Sugar Levy (4 October 1699) State paper 4 October 1699 Stuart Barbados Barbados; Excise; Levy; Sugar; Taxation
Minutes of Council of Nevis on Plantation-Trade Oaths and Customs Enforcement (14 February 1698) State paper 14 February 1698 Stuart Nevis, Leeward Islands Customs; Imperial Governance; Leeward Islands; Nevis; Plantation Trade
Minutes of Council of Virginia on Illegal Traders and Bulk Tobacco Oaths (16 November 1699) State paper 16 November 1699 Stuart Virginia, English America Admiralty; Customs; Illegal Trade; Tobacco; Virginia
Minutes of Council of Virginia on Re-exported Rice, Logwood, and Tobacco Duties (19 April 1700) State paper 19 April 1700 Stuart Virginia, English America Customs; Logwood; Re Export; Rice; Tobacco; Virginia
Minutes of Council of Virginia on Rent-Rolls, Bulk Tobacco, and Admiralty Fees (9 August 1699) State paper 9 August 1699 Stuart Virginia, English America Admiralty; Quit Rents; Rent Rolls; Tobacco; Trade Regulation; Virginia
Municipal Regulation of Hours and Wages by the Common Council of London 1538 London, England
Murfrey Hawley Bankruptcy Commission Notice (25 May 1699) Gazette 25 May 1699 Stuart Watford, Hertfordshire / Guildhall, London, England Bankruptcy; Debt; Inns; Victualling
Nashe on the Yarmouth Herring Trade 1599 Great Yarmouth, England
Nathan Chauveet Bankruptcy Notice (23 May 1700) Gazette 23 May 1700 Stuart Charing Cross, London, England Bankruptcy; Credit; Debt; Drapery
Neglect of Their Duties by the Alnagers, Dec. 1576 1576
Negotiations between the Clothiers and the Merchant Adventurers 1550
Note of the Profit Made by Mr. Swinnerton on French and Rhenish Wines in the Port of London (June 1600) State paper June 1600 Tudor London, England Customs; Farm; Port Of London; Revenue; Wine
Note of Things to Pass by Her Majesty's Warrant Allowing Non-Freemen to Carry Cloths into Germany (15 May 1587) State paper 15 May 1587 Tudor London, England Cloth; Customs; Germany Trade; Interlopers; Merchant Adventurers
Note of Woollen Goods Shipped from London by Merchant Strangers and the Customs Paid in Return (December 1599) State paper December 1599 Tudor London, England Customs; Merchant Strangers; Port Of London; Subsidies; Woollens
Notes by Burghley on Trade, Fishing, and Shipping 1581
Notes on 39 Eliz., Cc. 1 and 2 1597
Objection of City of Newcastle to Proposed Grant of Duty on Coal, Dec. 30 1591 Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Objections Advanced by Shrewsbury to the Foregoing Proposal Shrewsbury, England
Officers of Berwick to Lord Burghley on the Discharge of a Beer-Transport Bond (12 April 1597) State paper 12 April 1597 Tudor Berwick-upon-Tweed, England Beer; Berwick; Bond; Customs; Port; Shipping
Order Taken by the Privy Council on the Aforesaid Request 1590
Orders and Decrees of the Commissioners of Sewers concerning the Navigation of the River Lea from Enfield to Lea Mouth (1576) State paper 1576 Tudor Enfield, England Commissioners Of Sewers; Infrastructure; River Lea; River Navigation; Transport
Orders by the Justices of the Peace for the Relief of the Poor in Essex, 3 April 1598
Orders of the Justices of Cornwall for the Reformation of the Unreasonable Prices of Victuals in Markets 1550
Parliamentary Interest in the Upkeep of Dover Haven 1601
Part of A List by Sir Nathaniel Bacon, J.P., of Persons in Norfolk Certified Unable to Contribute to A Loan 1591
Patent for the Manufacture of White Salt, 20 Feb 1586
Pawned Goods Redemption and Sheriff Sale Notice (25 May 1699) Gazette 25 May 1699 Stuart Oxenden Street, Haymarket, London, England Brokerage; Credit; Pawns; Sheriff Sale
Payments for Admission to Various Crafts Limited by the Oxford Town Council 1561 Oxford, England
Permission to Enclose and Divide A Common 1587
Peter Crooke Bankruptcy Dividend Notice (9 May 1700) Gazette 9 May 1700 Stuart Hertford, Hertfordshire, England Bankruptcy; Commodity Processing; Credit; Debt
Peter Crooke Bankruptcy Notice (4 December 1699) Gazette 4 December 1699 Stuart Hertford, Hertfordshire, England Bankruptcy; Commodity Processing; Credit; Debt
Petition against Forestallers,¹ 1529 1529
Petition for Delay in Putting Down Enclosure 1522
Petition for Relief of Merchants Excluded from Trade by the Barbary Company 1582
Petition from Merchants Trading to Venice 1584
Petition from the Inhabitants of Norfolk against the Restraint on the Exportation of Corn 1580-1603
Petition from the Merchant Adventurers to the Privy Council to Suppress Interlopers 1584
Petition of A Shipowner for Employment in the Spanish Trade 1579
Petition of Erasmus Record and Millicent Vaughan (1624) Petition 1624 Stuart London, England Debt; Creditors; Chancery; Property claims; Manor revenues
Petition of John Langrake, Merchant, of Colchester, to the Council on the Robbery of the Marygold by Frenchmen of Dieppe (2 July 1574) State paper 2 July 1574 Tudor Colchester, England Colchester; Dieppe; Maritime Conflict; Merchant Petition; Shipping
Petition of John Thornborough, Dean of York, for A Patent to Control the Export of Coal and Levy A Duty 1591 York, England
Petition of Merchants Trading to Venice to the Council on Venetian Impositions (1588) State paper 1588 Tudor London, England Company; Impositions; Merchants; Shipping; Venice Trade
Petition of Roger Clark to Walsingham to be Admitted into the Company of Merchants Trading to Spain and Portugal (December 1578) State paper December 1578 Tudor London, England Company Admission; Corporate Privilege; Fellowship; Portugal Trade; Spain Trade
Petition of the Aldermen and Company of Merchants of the Stillyard to Lord Burghley on New Wine Imposts (1580) State paper 1580 Tudor London, England Imposts; Merchant Privilege; Spanish Wine; Stillyard; Sweet Wine
Petition of the Cloth-workers' Company to Sir Robert Cecil on Cloth Export Inspection (1597) State paper 1597 Tudor London, England Clothworkers; Company; Export Regulation; Inspection; London; Merchant Adventurers
Petition of the Company of Merchants Trading to Venice and the Levant to the Council against Corinth Imports by Foreign Merchants (March 1585) State paper March 1585 Tudor London, England Currants; Foreign Merchants; Levant Trade; Patent; Venice Trade
Petition of the Company of the Eastland Merchants to Walsingham on Elbing Trade (1580) State paper 1580 Tudor London, England Eastland Company; Elbing; Merchant Strangers; Port Competition; Trade
Petition of the Company of the Merchant Adventurers to the Council concerning the Trade of the Merchants of the Hanze Towns (1585) State paper 1585 Tudor London, England Hamburg; Hanze; Lubeck; Merchant Adventurers; Trade Regulation
Petition of the Company of the Merchants Adventurers to the Council on the Trade to Germany and the Choice of Stade (22 February 1588) State paper 22 February 1588 Tudor London, England Germany Trade; Merchant Adventurers; Residency; Stade; Trade Regulation
Petition of the Mayor, Jurats, and Commonalty of Dover to the Council for Aid to the Harbour (1579) State paper 1579 Tudor Dover, England Alehouse Rates; Dover; Harbour; Infrastructure; Newfoundland
Petition of the Merchants and Citizens of Chester to the Council on Harbour Privileges and Beer Export (8 October 1581) State paper 8 October 1581 Tudor Chester, England Beer Export; Chester; Harbour; Infrastructure; Letters Of Marque
Petition of the Merchants Trading to the Levant to the Council on Impositions (12 July 1600) State paper 12 July 1600 Tudor London, England Currants; Impositions; Levant Company; Overseas Trade; Venice
Petition of Thomas Caesar and Robert Webbe to the Queen for a Licence to Export Undressed Cloth (17 January 1600) State paper 17 January 1600 Tudor London, England Cloth; Export Regulation; Licence; Poor Clothworkers; Search Rights
Petition of Thomas Wynington to Walsingham in a Dispute with the Muscovy Company (1580?) State paper 1580? Tudor London, England Company Governance; Imprisonment; Merchant Dispute; Moscow Trade; Muscovy Company
Petition of Thomas Wynington to Walsingham in a Dispute with the Muscovy Company (c. 1580) State paper c. 1580 Tudor London, England Company Governance; Imprisonment; Merchant Dispute; Moscow Trade; Muscovy Company
Petition of William Symonds to the Council for Relief against a Verdict in an Usury Action (1574) State paper 1574 Tudor London, England Council; Debt; Litigation; Usury; Verdicts
Petition of William Typper to the Council on the Importation of Cochineal (December 1599) State paper December 1599 Tudor London, England Cochineal; London; Patent; Spanish Merchants; Stranger Trade
Petition to Build Fortune Playhouse Text 1600-1642 Elizabethan, Jacobean, Caroline London, England Theatre
Petition to Confirm A Gild of London Labourers (Incorporated 5 Hen. VII.) London, England
Piracy and Letters of Marque 1593
Plymouth Guinea and New York Shipping Notice (19 November 1699) Gazette 19 November 1699 Stuart Plymouth, England Atlantic Trade; Guinea; New York; Shipping
Plymouth Iberian Shipping Notice (12 December 1699) Gazette 12 December 1699 Stuart Plymouth, England Iberian Trade; Merchants; Ports; Shipping
Plymouth New England and Barbados Shipping Notice (4 June 1700) Gazette 4 June 1700 Stuart Plymouth, England Barbados; New England; Ports; Shipping
Plymouth Virginia and Bilbao Shipping Notice (12 November 1699) Gazette 12 November 1699 Stuart Plymouth, England Atlantic Trade; Bilbao; Shipping; Virginia
Polices to Reduce This Realme of Englande Vnto A Prosperus Wealthe and Estate 1549
Popular Rhymes against Enclosures at Coventry 1496
Prayer for Landlords 1553
Presentment of Offenders against 39 Eliz., C. 2 1608
Presentments before the Commission of 1548 1548
Presentments in Middlesex under the Statute of Artificers 1564-82
Presentments in Yorkshire under the Statute of Artificers Etc 1605-1608
Presentments of A Moneylender and A Broker for Offences against 13 Elizabeth, C. 8 1572
Presentments of An Unlicensed Corn Badger, An Engrosser of Grain, and An Innkeeper Charging Excessive Prices 1573-88
Printing as Political Remedy (The Observator, No. 1, 13 April 1681) Periodical 13 April 1681 Stuart London, England Pamphlets; Periodical Press; Political Communication; Print Culture
Proceedings of the Court of the Manor of Langley Marsh 1473
Proclamation against Monopolies, 28 Nov 1601
Proclamation Announcing A Reform of the Coinage by Queen Elizabeth, 27 Sept. 1560 1560
Proclamation Prohibiting Private Exchange Business and Establishing A Public Exchange Office 1576
Prohibition of the Import of English Cloth into the Netherlands 1494
Property, Workmanship, and the Sale of Seized Goods (The Observator, No. 110, 11 March 1681/82) Periodical 11 March 1681/82 Stuart London, England Commodity Value; Property; Seizure; Leasehold; Workmanship
Proposal to Abolish the Royal Right of Purveyance 1548
Proposal to Establish A Public Bank 1576
Protection of Borough Monopoly in Worcestershire (25 Hen. VIII. C. 18) 1534
Protest by the Italian Merchants of the City against State Control of Exchange Business 1576
Protest of Boston against the Salt Monopoly, April 1586
Protest of the London Brokers and Notaries against the Grant of A Monopoly in the Registration of Insurance Policies 1574-75
Public Benevolence and Political Reward (The Observator, "To the Reader," 1683) Periodical 1683 Stuart London, England Patronage; Political Print; Public Subscription; Reward
Reasons for a Charter of Incorporation of the Mere Merchants Trading into France (1574) State paper 1574 Tudor London, England Charter; France Trade; Mere Merchants; Monopoly; Wine Trade
Reasons for Encouraging the New Draperies in England, Dec 1582
Reasons of the Merchant Adventurers for Leaving Antwerp 1582
Reasons Why England Should Take Part in the New Discoveries, Addressed by Robert Thorne to Henry VIII 1527
Reasons Why the Trade of Hull Is Depesserd 1575
Regulation of the Yarmouth Herring Trade 1597 Great Yarmouth, England
Regulations for the Relief of the Poor at Norwich 1570 Norwich, England
Relaxation of the Statute of Artificers 1593
Report of Commissioners for Usury 1578
Report of the Commissioners of Customs on the Settlement of a Port at Perth Amboy (21 February 1699) State paper 21 February 1699 Stuart Perth Amboy, New Jersey, English America Customs; New Jersey; Perth Amboy; Plantation Trade; Ports
Report of the Customers of the Port of London to Lord Burghley on Customs Paid Outwards (1580) State paper 1580 Tudor London, England Cloth; Customs; Outward Trade; Port Of London; Revenue
Report to the Privy Council by James Paget, Collector of the Loan in Hampshire, April 1570
Request of the People of Halstead for the Return of the Dutch Baymakers 1590
Returns to Commission of 1517 1517
Revocation of the Privileges of the Hansards 1552
Rhine Tolls and Customs Conference Notice (22 May 1699) Gazette 22 May 1699 Stuart Cologne, Holy Roman Empire Customs; Infrastructure; River Trade; Tolls
Richard Carmarden's Account of Customs and Subsidies in the Port of London (29 September 1596) State paper 29 September 1596 Tudor London, England Customs; Luxury Goods; Port Of London; Revenue; Subsidies
Richard Clough to Gresham on the Frauds of the Customs Officials, 31 Dec 1561
Richard Hakluyt's Advice on the Search for A North- East Passage to Cathay 1580
Richard Savage to William Popple on the Customs Collector's Place in Bermuda (7 August 1700) State paper 7 August 1700 Stuart Bermuda Bermuda; Customs; Imperial Governance; Plantation Trade
Rise in the Prices of Cloth Goods 1551
Robert Hitchcock's Pollitique Platt for the Development of Fisheries 1580 London, England
Robert Quarry to Governor Nicholson on Unentered Tobacco and Evasion of Duties (21 July 1698) State paper 21 July 1698 Stuart Maryland, English America Customs; Maryland; Newfoundland; Pennsylvania; Smuggling; Tobacco
Robert Quarry to the Council of Trade and Plantations on Illegal Trade and Tobacco Duties (6 September 1698) State paper 6 September 1698 Stuart Maryland, English America Customs; Imperial Governance; Maryland; Pennsylvania; Smuggling; Tobacco
Robert Quary to the Commissioners of Customs on Madagascar Trade and Tobacco Smuggling (6 March 1700) State paper 6 March 1700 Stuart Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, English America Barbados; Customs; Madagascar; New York; Philadelphia; Pirates; Smuggling; Tobacco
Royal Exchange Indian Goods Auction Notice (9 August 1694) Gazette 9 August 1694 Stuart Royal Exchange, London, England Auction; Colonial Goods; Luxury Trade; Retail
Rules Established for the Company of Weavers, Tuckers, and Shearmen at Exeter 1490 Exeter, England
Rules to Be Observed by Miners at Wollaton, Notts 1600 Wollaton, England
Sea-Water Fresh Water Patent Notice (20 May 1700) Gazette 20 May 1700 Stuart Jamaica Coffee-House, Cornhill, London, England Empire; Maritime Technology; Patents; Water
Settlement of Alien Craftsmen at Sandwich 1561 Sandwich, England
Ship Money Levied on Inland Towns 1596
Sir John Mason to Cecil on High Prices, 4 Dec 1550
Sir Richard Gresham to Cromwell, Asking for Lands of Fountains Abbey 1538
Sir Stephen Soame, Julius Caesar, and Robert Beale to the Council on the Merchant Adventurers and Dressed Cloth Exports (May 1599) State paper May 1599 Tudor London, England Clothworkers; Export Regulation; London; Merchant Adventurers; Poor Artificers
Sir Thomas Laurence's Account of Maryland Tobacco Salaries, Land Values, and Revenue (16 August 1698) State paper 16 August 1698 Stuart Maryland, English America Land; Maryland; Quit Rents; Revenue; Salaries; Tobacco
Some Rogues from Harman's Caueat for Commen Cvrsetors 1567
Southampton Customs Officers to Richard Carmarden on the Inward and Outward Customs Controversy (29 January 1598) State paper 29 January 1598 Tudor Southampton, England Administrative Conflict; Customs; Officeholding; Port; Southampton
Survey of Burcombe 1567
Survey of Ewerne 1553
Survey of Mudford and Hinton 1554
Terrier of Lands Belonging to Burford Church 1501 Burford, England
Thacte Concernyng the Takyng of Apprentysses by Straungers - 14 & 15 Henry VIII, C. 2 1523
The " Intercursus Magnus " between England and the Netherlands 1496
The Aftermath of Ket's Rising 1550-53
The Amicable Loan 1525
The Assise of Fuel - 7 Edward VI. C. 7 1553 Westminster, England
The Beginnings of the East India Company 1599-1601
The Citizens of London to the Privy Council on Their Suit to the King for Bridewell 1552 London, England
The City of Chester Protects the Cappers against the Competition of Caps Imported by the Mercers 1525
The Clerk of the Market at Norwich 1564 Norwich, England
The Coventry Cappers and Their Journeymen 1520 Coventry, England
The Debate on Monopolies in the House of Commons 1601
The Debt Book (1625) Religious treatise 1625 Stuart London, England Debt; Credit; Charity; Poor relief; Clerical maintenance
The Decaye of England Only by the Great Multitude of Shepe 1550-53
The Difficulties of the Staplers 1527
The Duke of Norfolk to Cromwell on Vagabonds and Monasteries 1537
The Earl of Huntingdon to Cecil on Difficulties in Leicester About Calling in the Base Money, 29 Nov 1560 Leicester, England
The First Colonists in Virginia 1585-87
The First Compulsory Poor Rate in London 1547 London, England
The Gild of the York Carpenters 1482 York, England
The Last Horse Race Run Before Charles II of Blessed Memory Printed Etching 1687 Restoration London, England Gambling
The Law Against Bankrupts (1695) Legal treatise 1695 Stuart London, England Bankruptcy; Creditors; Merchants; Commercial law; Debt recovery
The Manchester Versus the Irish Linen Industry 1572
The Manumission of A Serf 1576
The Mayor of Bristol Reports Progress in the Calling in of the Base Money, 30 Jan 1561
The Merchant Adventurers' Answer to the Criticisms of the Hanse League 1582
The Mines Royal 1568 Westminster, England
The Privy Council Interested in the Introduction of New Dyes from Muscovy and Persia 1579
The Queen to the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs of London on Hanse Merchants and Outstanding Debts (26 January 1598) State paper 26 January 1598 Tudor London, England Debts; Hanse; London; Merchants; Still Yard; Trade Regulation
The Queen to the Lord Treasurer on Exporting Cast-Iron Ordnance in Exchange for New Guns (30 January 1600) State paper 30 January 1600 Tudor London, England Bonds; Export; Manufacture; Ordnance; Port Of London
The Queen to the Officers of Exchequer on Thomas Phelippes's Customs Debt and Cloth Licence Allowances (September 1600) State paper September 1600 Tudor London, England Cloth Licence; Customs; Debt; Exchequer; Port Of London
The Queen's Iron Founder and the Trade in Guns, Jan. 2 1573-74
The Statute of Artificers - 5 Eliz. C. 4 1563
The Strength and Wealth of England 1549
The Technique of the Yorkshire Woollen Industry 1588
The Town Waits of Norwich and Chester 1576-90
Theories as to the High Prices in 1549 and in 1581 1581
Thomas Barnabe, Merchant, to Cecil on the Increase of Shipping and Other Matters 1552
Thomas Osborne Bankruptcy Notice (16 May 1700) Gazette 16 May 1700 Stuart Norwich, Norfolk, England Bankruptcy; Credit; Debt; Merchants
Thomas Smith Bankruptcy Notice (23 May 1700) Gazette 23 May 1700 Stuart High Holborn, London, England Bankruptcy; Credit; Debt; Drapery
Thornborough's Explanation of His Proposals with Burghley's Criticisms, Aug. 1 1591
Thurland and Hochstetter to the Privy Council Concerning Copper Mining in Cumberland, May 26 1565
Timon's Bills Text 1606, 1623 Jacobean London, England
Tolley's Case (Proceedings on Apprenticeship Clauses of the Statute of Artificers) 1615
Town Charities at Bristol 1534-97
Translation of A Letter from A Spanish Agent in England on English Trade and Shipping, 10 Nov 1586
Tusser on the Benefits of Enclosure 1573
Typical Legacies for the Relief of the Poor 1488-1570
Unequal Assessments for A Subsidy 1589
Usury in the Stannaries 1602 London, England
Usury Not Exceeding Ten Per Cent Permitted - 13 Elizabeth, C. 8 1571
Vaughan's Account of the Crown's Debts Abroad and of the Condition of the Antwerp Money-Market 1546 Antwerp, Belgium
Verdigris Patent Transfer Notice (18 December 1699) Gazette 18 December 1699 Stuart Horse Ferry, Westminster, London, England Chemicals; Manufacture; Patents; Technology Transfer
Virginia Tobacco Shipping Notice (1 June 1699) Gazette 1 June 1699 Stuart Plymouth, England Colonial Trade; Shipping; Tobacco; Wine
Vox Populi Vox Dei 1547-48
West-India Company Charter and Export Notice (22 May 1699) Gazette 22 May 1699 Stuart The Hague, Dutch Republic Charter; Colonial Trade; Companies; Exports
Wheeler's Defence of the Merchant Adventurers 1601
White Paper-Makers Auction Notice (9 August 1694) Gazette 9 August 1694 Stuart Queen Street, London, England Auction; Manufacture; Paper; Print
Will of A Sailor Shipping to Guinea, 12 Oct 1557
William Cholmeley's Project for Dyeing Cloth in England 1553
William Fleetwood, Recorder of London, to Burghley on the Apprehension of Masterless Men near London 1582 London, England
William Humfrey to Cecil Concerning Christopher Schutz and His Wire and Battery Works 1565
William Humfrey to Cecil Explaining Why Hans Lowver Has Refused to Bring the Art of Battery into England, Aug. 28 1565
William Humfrey to Cecil on the Search for Calamine, June 30 1566
William Lane to Cecil on the Coinage and Other Matters, 18 Jan 1551
William Popple to Governor Nicholson on Tobacco Shipping Accounts and Naval Officers' Returns (21 August 1700) State paper 21 August 1700 Stuart Virginia, English America Bureaucracy; Customs; Naval Officers; Recordkeeping; Tobacco; Virginia
William Popple to Urban Hall of the Royal African Company on Venetian Trade to Guinea (15 November 1699) State paper 15 November 1699 Stuart London, England Africa; Companies; Empire; Guinea Trade; Venice
William Tyldesley to Cecil on the Administration of Various Statutes in the Shires 1561
Windsor Castle Building
Wine-Licence Arrears Notice (2 May 1700) Gazette 2 May 1700 Stuart Licensing; Retail Regulation; Revenue

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