From the start of his career as a young woolmerchant, about 1473, George Cely was a hoarder. He kept everything, from important business accounts down to the scrap of paper on which his father had once noted that the brewer and tailor hadn't been paid yet. The result is a rich collection, which not merely documents the Cely family's activities as staplers and ship-owners, but also gives vivid details of their intimate concerns: what they ate and wore, where they lived, how they spent their money - and where they went for loans when the cash ran short - how they amused themselves, and how they coped with trade recessions and political turmoil at home and abroad. This is the first comprehensive study to be based on the material.
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This book documents the activities of the Celys, a family of staplers and ship-owners, in the late fifteenth century, and also gives vivid details of their intimate concerns.
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Sometime around the mid-fifteenth century the three Cely boys, Robert, Richard and George, were born to an established wool-merchant, Richard Cely senior, and his wife Agnes. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mart valuation, mere sterling, petty costs, coinage valuations, refuse wool, master your father, next mart, mistress your mother, middle wool, sterling table, ooo fells, riding gown, parcel gilt, worshipful sir, master porter, sterling money, subsidy dues, dozen spoons, standing cup, good plight, sad matters, end wool, wool sales, exchange loans, master lieutenant Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Richard Cely, William Cely, George Cely, William Maryon, Thomas Kesten, John Dalton, William Midwinter, John De Lopez, Robert Cely, Sir John Weston, Mark Lane, William Dalton, Nicholas Best, Thomas Granger, English Trade, Duke of Burgundy, Margaret Cely, Ordinance Book, Thomas Betson, Anne Cely, Bretts Place, King of Romans, Lisle Letters, Sir William, William Rogers New!
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Sometime around the mid-fifteenth century the three Cely boys, Robert, Richard and George, were born to an established wool-merchant, Richard Cely senior, and his wife Agnes. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mart valuation, mere sterling, petty costs, coinage valuations, refuse wool, master your father, next mart, mistress your mother, middle wool, sterling table, ooo fells, riding gown, parcel gilt, worshipful sir, master porter, sterling money, subsidy dues, dozen spoons, standing cup, good plight, sad matters, end wool, wool sales, exchange loans, master lieutenant Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Richard Cely, William Cely, George Cely, William Maryon, Thomas Kesten, John Dalton, William Midwinter, John De Lopez, Robert Cely, Sir John Weston, Mark Lane, William Dalton, Nicholas Best, Thomas Granger, English Trade, Duke of Burgundy, Margaret Cely, Ordinance Book, Thomas Betson, Anne Cely, Bretts Place, King of Romans, Lisle Letters, Sir William, William Rogers New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Lisle Letters (Six Volume Set) by Muriel St. Clare Byrne on page 29, and Back Matter
- The Middle Ages (Discovering History) by John Salt on page 387, and Back Matter
- Making of Britain: Middle Ages (The making of Britain) by Lesley M. Smith on page 340, and Back Matter
- Medieval England: A Social History and Archaeology from the Conquest to 1600 AD by Professor C Platt on page 151, and page 315
- Dialogues in French and English by William Caxton on page 57, and Back Matter
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- Growing Up in Medieval London: The Experience of Childhood in History by Barbara A. Hanawalt in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Patriarchy and Families of Privilege in Fifteenth-Century England (The Middle Ages Series) by Joel T. Rosenthal on page 98, and Back Matter
- England in the Later Middle Ages by M.H. Keen in Back Matter
- Women's Lives in Medieval Europe: A Sourcebook by Emilie Amt in Back Matter
- The Early Stuart Masque: Dance, Costume, and Music by Barbara Ravelhofer in Back Matter
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