The Cely Letters, 1472-1488
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- Author(s) Hanham, Alison (ed)
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1975
- Pages 365pp
- Publisher Oxford University Press for the Early English Text Society
- Place Published London
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- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Comprises transcriptions of letters mostly sent but also received by the Cely family of 15th century merchants especially engaged in the wool trade - 'they are virtually the sole surviving source of information on the organisation of a medieval English firm. The papers also throw light on the financial activities of the merchant adventurers and the Italian and Spanish merchants who acted as financiers in London and the Low Countries'