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This chapter describes the background to, and the provisions of, the Statutes of Acton Burnell (1283) and Merchants (1285) which set up registries for recording debts in the major towns throughout the kingdom, particularly those connected with the wool trade. It discusses conflicting interpretations of the certificates of debt issued by the registries, which provide the main evidence for this book and the reasons why they can be seen as a valid sample of credit of high value which reflected changing economic circumstances, particularly those that affected wool exports and imports of bullion.
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Nightingale, P. (2018). The Records of the Statutes of Acton Burnell, and Merchants, 1284–1349. In: Enterprise, Money and Credit in England before the Black Death 1285–1349. Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90251-7_2
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