Scarborough versus Seamer: an Elizabethan tale of market forces

Pages & Document Description:
13 - 24; fig
Author:
Binns, Jack
Abstract:
An account of an attempt by the influential Gates family to establish Seamer as a major commercial centre – an attempt which eventually failed after a lengthy legal battle with the burgesses of rival Scarborough. An addendum identifies thirty-one towns in the East Riding and Vale of Pickering that petitioned in support of Seamer market in 1584. Oetgen, Jeremy
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Classifications:
9E
Source description:
fig.

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