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The attempt to regulate the increasingly necessary wool-middleman trade by means of licences was an innovation of considerable importance, but it was not until the 1570’s that it became a deliberate policy on the part of the government. In the meantime a step in this direction was taken in connection with the wool-export trade.
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See M. W. Beresford, ‘The Common Informer, The Penal Statutes and Economic Regulation’, Econ. Hist. Rev. 2nd ser. x (1957), 223.
E. F. Heckscher, Mercantilism (1934 edn.), i, 254.
M. W. Beresford, Econ. Hist Rev. 2nd ser. x (1957), 223.
John Johnson was the senior partner of a firm engaged in various branches of overseas commerce which went bankrupt in 1553. For an account of the firm’s last years see Barbara Winchester, Tudor Family Portrait (1995).
See M. W. Beresford, Econ. Hist Rev. 2nd ser. x (1957), 223–4.
J. Stow, A Survey of London in 1603, ed. G. L. Kingsford (1908), ii, 102.
The Parliamentary Diary of Robert Bowyer, 1606–1607, ed. D. H. Willson (1931), p. 142.
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Bowden, P.J. (1962). Regulation by Licence. In: The Wool Trade in Tudor and Stuart England. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-81676-7_5
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