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Poor Relief in Sixteenth Century England [PDF]

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The amount of charitable provision administered by the monasteries of the later Middle Ages has long received the attention of historians exploring pre-industrial social-welfare systems.
Neil Rushton, Wendy Sigle Rushton
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Leger est aprendre mes fort est arendre;: Wool, Debt and the Dispersal of Pipewell Abbey (1280 - 1330) [PDF]

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has long been known that English Cistercian monasteries often sold their wool in advance to foreign merchants in the late thirteenth century. The abbey of Pipewell in Northamptonshire features in a number of such contracts with Cahorsin merchants.
Adrian Bell, Chris Brooks, Paul Dryburgh
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