Merchants Adventurers and the Continental Cloth-trade (1560s-1620s)

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Motives of the Merchants Adventurers for Shifting Their Marts, and Their Criteria of Site Selection -- Chapter Two. The State of the Art of Finishing Techniques for English Woollens Used in Germany at the Time -- Chapter Three. Chronicle of Developments in Imports of English Woollens to Germany (1564-1611) -- Chapter Four. The Merchants Adventurers in Germany -- Chapter Five. Centres of the Cloth Trade in Germany (with Antwerp) -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1. Andreas Ryff from Basel: An Example of How the Business of a Cloth Trader "At Second Hand" Was Run -- Appendix 2. Biographical Data on Englishmen Engaged in Trading in Germany - Outside the Mart Towns - in the Latter Half of the Sixteenth and the Early Seventeenth Centuries -- Bibliography -- Index of Places by Country -- Index of Names