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The Medieval Account Books of the Mercers of London - An Edition and Translation (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The Medieval Account Books of the Mercers of London - An Edition and Translation (Hardcover, New Ed)
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As the premier livery company, the Mercers Company in medieval
England enjoyed a prominent role in London's governance and
exercised much influence over England's overseas trade and
political interests. This substantial two-volume set provides a
comprehensive edition of the surviving Mercers' accounts from 1347
to 1464, and opens a unique window into the day-to-day workings of
one of England's most powerful institutions at the height of its
influence. The accounts list income, derived from fees for
apprentices and entry fees, from fines (whose cause is usually
given, sometimes with many details), from gifts and bequests, from
property rents, and from other sources, and then list expenditures:
on salaries to priests and chaplains, to the beadle, the
rent-collector, and to scribes and scriveners; on alms payments; on
quit-rents due on their properties; on repairs to properties; and
on a whole host of other costs, differing from year to year, and
including court cases, special furnishings for the chapel or Hall,
negotiations over trade with Burgundy, transport costs, funeral
costs or those for attendance at state occasions, etc. Included
also in some years are ordinances, deeds and other material of
which they wanted to ensure a record was kept. Beginning with an
early account for 1347-48, and the company's ordinances of that
year, the accounts preserved form an entire block from 1390 until
1464. The material is arranged in facing-page format, with an
accurate edition of the original text mirrored by a translation
into modern English. A substantial introduction describes the
manuscripts in full detail and explains the accounting system used
by the Mercers and the financial vocabulary associated with it.
Exhaustive name and subject indexes ensure that the material is
easily accessible and this edition will become an essential tool
for all studying the social, cultural or economic developments of
late-medieval England.
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