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Credit and Trade in Later Medieval England, 1353-1532

Part of the Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-48987-6

ISBN: 978-1-137-48985-2

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Jun 22, 2016

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Chapter 1The Statute Staple and Trade Finance in Later Medieval England

Goddard, Richard

Pages: 1 –47

[Credit was ubiquitous in later medieval society. All medieval trade depended upon credit—the deferred part-payment for goods sold or advances for future delivery of goods. John Gower, the late fourteenth-century poet and moralist, certainly recognises in the above quote that merchants depended...
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Chapter 2Merchants and Trade

Goddard, Richard

Pages: 49 –95

[This study is not only concerned with the impersonal economic trends of the later Middle Ages. It also seeks to look at the personal experiences of the businesspeople who attempted to make a living in a period of commercial challenges. Inconvenient though it is for historians eager to model the...
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Chapter 3Boom and Bust: Patterns of Borrowing in Later Medieval England

Goddard, Richard

Pages: 97 –146

[The virtually complete record of the certificates of defaulting debtors sent to Chancery and the resulting extents of debt allow an unusually full assessment to be made of changes in the English economy over the 179 years in which the Statute Staple debt registration system was in use,...
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Chapter 4The Geography of Recession: Provincial Credit in Later Medieval England

Goddard, Richard

Pages: 147 –193

[Chapter 3 argued for a reduction in Staple lending in the early to mid-fifteenth century. This chapter examines the same Staple certificate data from a regional perspective by examining the patterns of lending undertaken at provincial Staple courts in order to assess if there was a regional...
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Chapter 5London: The Commercial Powerhouse

Goddard, Richard

Pages: 195 –242

[Caroline Baron’s introduction to her ‘London 1300–1540’ chapter in the Cambridge Urban History is the key to understanding changes in the availability of Staple credit in later medieval England. She describes London’s unique position in the later Middle Ages as follows: ‘By the early fourteenth...
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Chapter 6Conclusion

Goddard, Richard

Pages: 243 –249

[At the start of this study, a question was posed. Why did Robert Belle, a merchant of Newcastle upon Tyne, not enrol his £40 debt recognisance with William Stockdale, a London draper, at his home Staple in Newcastle in 1423, but instead journey nearly 500 km in order to register this transaction...

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