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Exeter possesses the best series of local customs accounts from medieval England, beginning in 1266 and surviving for almost 70 per cent of the years up to 1498. They are also far more complete than other local accounts: listing ships' names, home ports, shipmasters and dates of arrival, as well as the importers and their cargoes. Equally remarkable is their focus on coastal as well as overseas traffic, unlike the better known national customs...

The havener was an official, unique to the duchy of Cornwall, responsible for the efficient management of its maritime properties. This sourcebook translates the havener's accounts from a 70-year period which is of particular importance in English medieval maritime history.

This book offers a detailed study of the types of trade that occurred in a medieval English market town. It focuses above all on the identity of buyers and sellers in late fourteenth-century Exeter, a port town that enjoyed particularly good overland connections throughout south-western England. More than most town histories, it explores the dynamic relationship between town and country, and traces how the urban center linked local and regiona...

A detailed study of the types of trade that occurred in late fourteenth-century Exeter.

Medieval Towns" will become a standard sourcebook." - Martha Howell, Miriam Champion Professor of History, Columbia University