Eastland Trade and the Common Weal in the Seventeenth Century
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- Author(s) Hinton, Raymond W K
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1959
- Pages 244pp; illus
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Place Published Cambridge
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- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Early scholarly account of trade with the Baltic region especially by the Eastland Co, established by charter 1579. Deals with Eastland trade in 16th century; depression of 1620; trade 1620-49; 'purpose of a regulated company'; company's home privileges; growth of English need for naval stores; development of state control after 1660; end of company. An appendix [pp219-25] lists 'some members' of the Company and another provides a statistical analysis of Baltic trade, 1591-1700. Little about individual merchants and their organisation. Much on cloth and grain trades