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English wool production declined by a third from the early fourteenth to the mid-fifteenth century. [14] England's wool-trade was volatile, however, affected by diverse factors such as war, taxation policy, export/import duties or even bans, disease and famine, and the degree of competition among European merchants for English wool.
The drapers came to wield great power in Shrewsbury, and included all the leading men of the town. From the mid-16th century to the end of the 17th century members of the Company dominated Shrewsbury's administration. [2] The drapers provided homes for a number of poor people, whom they employed, and gave work to over 600 shearmen.
Stephen Jenyns. Sir Stephen Jenyns ( c. 1450 –1523) [1] was a wool merchant from Wolverhampton, Merchant of the Staple and Master Merchant Taylor who became Lord Mayor of London for the year of the coronation of King Henry VIII. [2] An artistic, architectural and educational patron, he founded Wolverhampton Grammar School, and took a leading ...
The antiquary John Weever, quoting the 16th-century Tuscan merchant Lodovico Guicciardini, defined a staple town "to be a place, to which by the prince's authority and privilege wool, hides of beasts, wine, corn or grain, and other exotic or foreign merchandize are transferred, carried or conveyed to be sold". [4]
William Towerson (16th-century merchant) William Towerson was an English merchant who wrote brief narratives of three trading expeditions to North-West Africa (which he called Guinea) occurring in 1555–1556, 1556–1557, and 1558. [1] These were collected and published by Richard Hakluyt.
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.
Merchants, finishers and dyers of foreign cloth Circa 1190 [16] 2 Reportedly the oldest of the Florentine guilds, originally listed as the Mercantati o Arte di Calimala. From the early thirteenth century, it was one of the three major guilds (the others were the Bankers and the Wool manufacturers) entitled to elect Priori to the Signoria.
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 ...