'The Tyneside lobby on the Thames. Political and economic issues, c1580-1630' in D Newton & A J Pollard (eds), Newcastle and Gateshead before 1700

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Author(s) Healy, Simon
Publication type Chapter
Year published 2009
Pages pp219-40
Publisher Phillimore
Place Published Chichester

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Country England
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Charts the attempts by London based merchants to gain control of the Tyneside coal trade and the success of the Newcastle hostmen in preventing them from doing so. Has sections: 'The hostmen's monopoly'; 'Challenges to the monopoly, 1600-10'; 'Disputes over the surveyorship of coals, 1616-26'; 'Further challenges to the monopoly, 1621-5'; 'War and disruption to trade, 1625-9'