The Growth of English Credit, 1290–1294

Pamela Nightingale ()
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Pamela Nightingale: University of Oxford

Chapter Chapter 5 in Enterprise, Money and Credit in England before the Black Death 1285–1349, 2018, pp 99-129 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter relates the puzzling facts that English credit in the certificates was growing in the leading counties between 1290 and 1294 even though the amount of foreign bullion brought to the mints fell to only 8% of its total in the previous decade, and alien credit in the certificates plunged in 1292, two years before the outbreak of the war with France. The chapter discusses the reasons for this conundrum and relates it to the inflow of imitation sterling coins which were brought illegally to England to buy wool, by-passing the mints, but circulating sufficiently to increase credit which helped to finance English enterprise, including Derbyshire’s lead industry.

Keywords: English credit; Foreign bullion; France; Wool; Derbyshire (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-90251-7_5

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