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19th-century English merchants (26 P) D. Merchants from Devon (5 P) L. Merchants from London (88 P) M. Medieval English merchants (1 C, 15 P) S. English slave traders ...
Medieval English merchants active before about 1485, the start of the Tudor Age and a milestone in the Renaissance. See also: Category:15th-century English businesspeople See also: Category:16th-century English businesspeople
Thomas Howell (c. 1480 –1537) was a merchant and philanthropist of Welsh origin, who trained in Bristol and London. [1] His surviving commercial ledger (1517–27) is the first example of double-entry bookkeeping in English. [2]
Costumes of merchants from Brabant and Antwerp, engraving by Abraham de Bruyn, 1577. The English term, merchant comes from the Middle English, marchant, which is derived from Anglo-Norman marchaunt, which itself originated from the Vulgar Latin mercatant or mercatans, formed from present participle of mercatare ('to trade, to traffic or to deal in'). [1]
H. Hugh Hamersley; Thomas Hammond (merchant) William Harborne; Daniel Harvey (diplomat) William Hawkins (fl. c. 1600) Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet
A medieval merchant's trading house in Southampton, restored to its mid-14th-century appearance. There were some reversals. The attempts of English merchants to break through the Hanseatic league directly into the Baltic markets failed in the domestic political chaos of the Wars of the Roses in the 1460s and 1470s. [208]
The Merchants Mappe of Commerce; wherein the Vniversall Manner and Matter of Trade is compendiously handled, &c., London, 1638, fol. As one of the earliest systematic treatises on its subject in English, this gave Roberts a wide reputation; prefixed are commendatory verses by Izaak Walton; 3rd edit. enlarged, London, 1677, fol. … to which is ...
English merchants (8 C, 208 P) Scottish merchants (6 C, 43 P) Welsh merchants (2 C, 7 P) S. British slave traders (5 C, 3 P) British stamp dealers (36 P)