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The English Fur Trade in the Later Middle Ages
… fur-farming business; sable, once the most prized of all furs, now yields pride of place to mink, available in strange … into fashion and bought the finest and most sumptuous furs they could afford. The fashions they set, their social … of the period reflect the popularity of these delicate furs, and it was usual for nearly all the fur-lined robes …
The English Fur Trade in the Later Middle Ages
… first the preference for a wide variety of more valuable furs in place of northern squirrel skins, and secondly the declining popularity of furs of any sort, were certainly of decisive importance in the history of the manufacture of furs in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. But it is not …
Calendar of Treasury Papers
… to the English Government, secure the whole trade of furs, naval stores, the fishery for Spain and elsewhere, …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Interregnum
… a Frenchman, and so was not censured, and the tobacco and furs out of the Salt prize were held inconsiderable. The 4 …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Interregnum
… and goods, as cheese, bacon, butter, soap, pepper, wax, furs to line coats for Don John's officers, and other goods. …
Calendar of Treasury Papers
… set out in the Act; and (2), that a duty should be laid on furs and hides, &c., advising that the building of towns, … wharfs and quays should be built. The proposed duty on furs and hides was about 25 per cent. on the value, and would … 2nd, the rates and duties imposed upon the exportation of furs and hides, by an Act made in the Assembly of Virginia in …