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Website. shrewsburydrapers.org.uk. The Shrewsbury Drapers Company was a trade organisation founded in 1462 in the town of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. The members were wholesale dealers in wool and later woollen cloth. The Company dominated the trade in Welsh cloth and in 1566 was given a regional monopoly in the Welsh Wool trade.
Medieval English wool trade. Sheep, shown here in the 1240s or the 1250s, became increasingly important to English agriculture. The medieval English wool trade was one of the most important factors in the medieval English economy. [1] The medievalist John Munro notes that " [n]o form of manufacturing had a greater impact upon the economy and ...
Two Birmingham merchants represent Warwickshire at the council held in York in 1322 to discuss the standardisation of wool staples, and others attend the Westminster wool merchants assemblies of 1340, 1342 and 1343, a period when at least one Birmingham merchant is trading considerable amounts of wool with continental Europe.
The Company of Merchants of the Staple of England, the Merchants of the Staple, also known as the Merchant Staplers, is an English company incorporated by Royal Charter in 1319 (and so the oldest mercantile corporation in England) dealing in wool, skins, lead and tin which controlled the export of wool to the continent during the late medieval period.
Thomas Spring (c. 1474 – 1523) (alias Thomas Spring III or The Rich Clothier) of Lavenham in Suffolk, was an English cloth merchant. [2] He consolidated his father's business to become one of the most successful in the booming wool trade of the period and was one of the richest men in England. [3] He has been described as the most important ...
The Worshipful Company of Drapers is one of the 111 livery companies of the City of London. It has the formal name The Master and Wardens and Brethren and Sisters of the Guild or Fraternity of the Blessed Mary the Virgin of the Mystery of Drapers of the City of London. More usually known simply as the Drapers' Company, it is one of the historic ...