Rise of wool and cloth manufacture and export in England (1500–1700)

1. Cloth exports reach early sixteenth-century peak

   Jan 1, 1540Labels: finished cloth, England exports

   • Wiki Cloth Trade
   • Wiki Economy

2. Large-scale kersey production expands rural manufacturing

   Jan 1, 1545Labels: kersey, Winchcombe

   • Jack O Newbury
   • Kersey Cloth

3. Statute of Artificers regulates apprenticeship and wages

   Apr 10, 1563Labels: Statute of, apprenticeship

   • Artificers Act

4. Merchant Adventurers relocate staple from Antwerp

   Jan 1, 1564Labels: Merchant Adventurers, Antwerp

   • Merchant Adventurers
   • Company CMA

5. Dutch and Walloon refugees boost “new draperies”

   Jan 1, 1565Labels: Dutch refugees, new draperies

   • London Aliens
   • Strangers Norwich

6. Hamburg becomes a long-term base for the cloth staple

   Jan 1, 1611Labels: Hamburg, Merchant Adventurers

   • Company CMA

7. Cockayne Project attempts to force finishing in England

   Dec 1, 1614Labels: Cockayne Project, William Cockayne

   • Economic Expansion
   • Kent Study

8. Export slumps highlight vulnerability of cloth markets

   Jan 1, 1619Labels: export slump, continental demand

   • De Vries excerpt
   • Kent Study

9. Value-added finishing rises in exported English cloth

   Jan 1, 1650Labels: finished cloth, urban finishing

   • Kent Study
   • Age of Invention

10. Navigation Act strengthens English control of shipping

    Oct 9, 1651Labels: Navigation Act, shipping law

    • Britannica Nav

11. Merchant Adventurers’ export monopoly ends by statute

    Jan 1, 1689Labels: Merchant Adventurers, export monopoly

    • Merchant Adventurers

12. Wool Act restricts wool exports to protect English industry

    May 4, 1699Labels: Wool Act, wool exports

    • Wool Act

13. Acts of Union reshape internal British trade framework

    Jan 1, 1707Labels: Acts of, Great Britain

    • Britannica Nav
    • Acts of Union