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<p>[QUOTE="EWC3, post: 3593946, member: 93416"]Further to my last – one of the “Sizes” sources is partly on line at Google books</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TMEFFT-28CYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Alison+Hanham.+The+Celys+and+their+World.+An+English+Merchant+Family+of+the+fifteenth+century.+Cambridge+(UK):+Cambridge+University+Press,+2008.&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiBq8H4mp3jAhXyQxUIHemlBkoQ6AEITjAG#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TMEFFT-28CYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Alison+Hanham.+The+Celys+and+their+World.+An+English+Merchant+Family+of+the+fifteenth+century.+Cambridge+(UK):+Cambridge+University+Press,+2008.&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiBq8H4mp3jAhXyQxUIHemlBkoQ6AEITjAG#v=onepage&q&f=false" rel="nofollow">https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TMEFFT-28CYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Alison+Hanham.+The+Celys+and+their+World.+An+English+Merchant+Family+of+the+fifteenth+century.+Cambridge+(UK):+Cambridge+University+Press,+2008.&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiBq8H4mp3jAhXyQxUIHemlBkoQ6AEITjAG#v=onepage&q&f=false</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I think this is possibly the earliest surviving set of English documents which might approximate to a set of merchant's accounts? Merchant's account books in general seem to survive in England only from the 16th century I think? So we are likely stuck at just “pre-1488” as Sizes says. We have details of court cases going back quite a lot earlier, so it is just possible something got mentioned there………….</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob T</p><p><br /></p><p>PS The Celys seems to be international shipping people – so not the local hardware store…….[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="EWC3, post: 3593946, member: 93416"]Further to my last – one of the “Sizes” sources is partly on line at Google books [URL]https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TMEFFT-28CYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Alison+Hanham.+The+Celys+and+their+World.+An+English+Merchant+Family+of+the+fifteenth+century.+Cambridge+(UK):+Cambridge+University+Press,+2008.&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiBq8H4mp3jAhXyQxUIHemlBkoQ6AEITjAG#v=onepage&q&f=false[/URL] I think this is possibly the earliest surviving set of English documents which might approximate to a set of merchant's accounts? Merchant's account books in general seem to survive in England only from the 16th century I think? So we are likely stuck at just “pre-1488” as Sizes says. We have details of court cases going back quite a lot earlier, so it is just possible something got mentioned there…………. Rob T PS The Celys seems to be international shipping people – so not the local hardware store…….[/QUOTE]
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