The Devon Cloth Industry in the 18th Century

This volume presents early insurance registers kept by the Sun Fire Office, which list and value the goods of cloth manufacturers. The textile industry was an important part of Devon's economy in this period and these documents survive in greater numbers for Devon than for any other area outside London. They tell us much about an important eighteenth-century industry, as well as about economic history and the history of business and insurance.

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Stanley D. Chapman

Product details

• Authors: Stanley D. Chapman
• Assisted by: S. D. Chapman (Editor), Stanley D Chapman (Editor), Stanley D. Chapman (Editor)
• Publisher: Devon & Cornwall Record Society
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1978
• EAN: 9780901853226
• ISBN: 978-0-901853-22-6
• No. of pages: 186
• Weight: 306 g
• Series: Devon and Cornwall Record Soci; Devon and Cornwall Record Society
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918