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Chapter 1: The Place of Credit and Coin in the Medieval English Economy The Relationship of Credit to the Monetary Economy   The Shortage of Coin   The Crown and the Coinage   Barter   The Constraints on Credit   Usury and Interest   Risks of Default   The Instability of Credit   The Balance of Trade and Coin   The Wool Trade and Credit   Chapter 2: The Records of the Statutes of Acton Burnell, and Merchants, 1284–1349 The Registries Conflicting interpretations of the Certificates The Certificates of Debt as a Sample of Credit A London Merchant’s record of Credit. The Relationship between Credit and Wool Exports . Chapter 3: The Contribution of Alien Creditors to the English Economy, 1285–1289             Italian Creditors, 1285-9             Cahorsin Creditors, 1285-9             Gascon Creditors, 1285-9             German Merchants             Other alien creditors             London and Alien Merchants   Chapter 4: English Wealth and Credit, 1285–1289 London and its Region Shropshire Lincolnshire Yorkshire Hampshire Credit in other coastal counties Northumberland The Inland Counties   Chapter 5: The Growth of English Credit, 1290–1294 Hampshire Yorkshire Shropshire Lincolnshire London Bristol The New Registries Nottingham Chester   Chapter 6: Warfare, Currency Confusion, and Falling Credit, 1295–1299             Hampshire             Lincolnshire             Yorkshire             Shropshire             Herefordshire             Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire             Devon             London   Chapter 7: Recovery and New Patterns of Credit, 1300–1304 London Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Lincolnshire Norfolk Yorkshire Shropshire Herefordshire Devon   Chapter 8: Monetary Expansion and Economic Growth, 1305–1309             London and its Region             Oxford and its Region Bristol and its Region Norfolk Nottinghamshire Derbyshire, Leicestershire Lincolnshire Yorkshire Shropshire Herefordshire Hampshire Devon   Chapter 9: Crises, Conflicts, and Mercantile Credit, 1311–1329             Circumstances inimical to credit             Repeal of the Ordinances, 1322             Differing regional concentrations of merchants             London             London’s Region             Norfolk             Suffolk             Lincolnshire             Yorkshire             Shropshire Herefordshire Bristol, Somerset and Gloucestershire Nottinghamshire Staffordshire   Chapter 10: Warfare, Gold, and Regional Disparities, 1330–1339 London The expansion of London’s Region Norfolk Suffolk Growth in the Midlands: Northamptonshire Warwickshire Oxfordshire Bristol and Somerset Dorset Cornwall and Devon Counties with Declining Credit: Lincolnshire Shropshire Herefordshire Yorkshire   Chapter 11: English Financiers, a Gold Currency and Plague, 1340–1349 Coin and Credit             Counties with Falling Credit:             Oxfordshire             Norfolk Counties with Increased Credit: London The Rise of London’s Mercers Other London Creditors Increased Provincial Enterprise and Credit Devon Wiltshire Bristol Gloucestershire Herefordshire Warwickshire Lincolnshire Newcastle and Northumberland Yortkshire   Chapter 12: Conclusions