Shrewsbury Drapers Company
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shrewsbury-drapers-company-170-17471545
title:
Shrewsbury Drapers Company
text:
The Shrewsbury Drapers Company was a trade organisation founded in 1462 in the town of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. The members were wholesale dealers in wool and later woollen cloth. The Company dominated the trade in Welsh cloth and in 1566 was given a regional monopoly in the Welsh Wool trade. In the seventeenth century the trade had difficulties particularly during the English Civil war and then further declined in the eighteenth century with the industrialisation of cloth production and
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wiki
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description:
British trade organisation
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrewsbury_Drapers_Company
date created:
2016-04-02T15:48:58Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T03:35:50Z
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