This book was first published in 1962. Until the era of the Industrial Revolution wool was, without question, the most important raw material in the English economic system. The staple article of the country's export trade in the Middle Ages, it remained until the nineteenth century the indispensable basis of her greatest industry. This book looks at the decline of cloth industry in East Anglia sine the mid-sixteenth century.

Peter J. Bowden

Chapter 1 Sheep Farming and Wool Production; Chapter 2 The Wool-Textile Industry and its Sources of Wool Supply; Chapter 3 The Marketing of Wool; Chapter 4 Regulation by Act of Parliament; Chapter 5 Regulation by Licence; Chapter 6 The Staplers in the Regulation of the Wool Trade; Chapter 7 The English and Irish Wool Trade and the Export Ban;