The mercery of London : trade, goods and people, 1130-1578 / Anne F. Sutton.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ch. 1. Definition and location : the London mercery, 1130s-1230s -- ch. 2. 'The poor pedlar makes more noise crying his goods than does a rich mercer all his valuable wares' : the mercery trade in the thirteenth century -- ch. 3. The origins and early associations of London mercers, 1270s-1340s -- ch. 4. 'Loving companions who are dwelling in the good city of London' : the commonalty of the mercery -- ch. 5. The company and the city 1348-94 : from the black death to the first charter -- ch. 6. 'Le compaignie del mercerie que dieux veul garder de male et de perile et tutditz convoier a bon aventure' : the move into mercantile status, 1290s-1430 -- ch. 7. Success on all sides : the mercers in fifteenth-century London -- ch. 8. The mercery trade in London : prosperity and conflict -- ch. 9. 'C'était une vie d'aventures semblable à celle des chevaliers' : the mercer's ascendancy among the adventurers in the low countries, 1430s-85 -- ch. 10. 'All merchandise shall have its course and merchants to have their communication each with other' : trade, 1430s-85 -- ch. 11. 'Give to every man that which is his' : the mercers and the merchant adventurers, 1485-1520s -- ch. 12. New responsibilities and losses, 1490s-1550s -- ch. 13. Religious change, wealth and faith -- ch. 14. 'The present understanding of the feat of the merchant adventurer' : overseas trade, 1520s-80s -- ch. 15. The demise of the medieval mercery -- ch. 16. 'A sample and light' : charity and Protestantism -- ch. 17. A new company?

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