Sources
These pages contain a variety of sources and research
projects that the co-ordinator has put on the site for the use of
students taking the unit and other interested researchers. This includes
links to items that have been published through the Bristol Repository of
Scholarly Eprints (ROSE).
To download sixteenth-century Bristol customs accounts and associated working
papers, go to the project website for:
Ireland-Bristol
Trade in the Sixteenth Century.
Copyright and
Transcription Information
Childe of Bristow, c.1350-1500
Act to establish a 'Fellowship of
Merchants', 1467
Salazar's account of Bristol's discovery
of the Island of Brasil (pre 1476)
Robert Ricart's
Chronicle of Bristol, 1480-1508
Will of John Foster, merchant of
Bristol, 6 August 1492 (ROSE)
John Cabot in Seville, 1494
First Letters Patent granted by
Henry VII to John Cabot , 5 March 1496
'Cabot Roll', 1496-99
Lorenzo Pasqualigo
to his brothers at Venice, 23 August 1497
News sent from London to the Duke of
Milan, 24 August 1497
Soncino letter to Duke of Milan, 18
December 1497
The grant of a pension of £20
per year to John Cabot, 13 December 1497 (ROSE)
Warrant for the payment of John
Cabot’s pension, 22 February 1498 (ROSE)
John Day letter to the Lord Grand
Admiral, Winter 1497/8
Pedro de Ayala to King Ferdinand and Queen
Isabella, 25 July, 1498
London Chronicles of John Cabot's
voyage of 1498
Henry VII’s letter to John
Morton concerning William Weston’s voyage to the new found land (ROSE)
John Esterfeld
vs. William Weston of Bristol: Chancery petition transcript, c.1499
Act to establish a 'Company of
Merchants', 1500
Extracts from the Patent granted by
the Spanish Sovereigns to Alonso de Ojeda, 8 June 1501
Customs Account: The Matthew of
Bristol, 1503/4
Prisage & Butlerage Account for Bristol, 1511
Survey of Bristol Ships, 16 January 1513
Will of Hugh Say, mercer of
London, 10 December 1517 (ROSE)
A Dispute between a Merchant of Bordeaux
and some Bristol Men, 1517
Robert Thorne the elder's Will,
proved 6 July 1519
Petition from the Town of Bristol,
c.1530
Act for preserving navigation of the River
Avon, 1543
Petition against Candlemas Fair, c.1543
John Wynter's Will, 1545
Letters Patent of the Merchant Venturers, 1552
Tyndall smuggling case, 1558
Will of William Tyndall,
merchant of Bristol, 13 September 1558 (ROSE)
William Tyndall Probate Inventory, 1559
Bristol Merchants Evading Customs at
Chepstow, 8 August 1561
Licence for vessels to lade and
unlade goods at Bristol between 4am and 8pm, 12 April 1563 (ROSE)
Bristol Merchants Landing Wine at Chepstow,
1564
Letter: Anthony Standbank,
mayor of Bristol to Winchester, the Lord Treasurer,15 February 1565
Bridgwater Port Survey, 14 May 1565
Survey of smuggling in Bristol,
15 May 1565 (ROSE)
Survey of the Port of Bristol,
1565 (ROSE)
The Fust MS. / Maurice Toby's Chronicle of
Bristol, 1565
Conformation of the Letters Patent of the
Merchant Venturers, 1566
Act of Parliament: The Merchant Venturers, 1566
Exchequer Decree to turn the
Port of Cardiff into a member port of Bristol, 18 June 1567 (ROSE)
Complaint of the Tuckers, 1568
Parliamentary debate: The Merchant Venturers, 1571
Act of Parliament: The Merchant Venturers, 1571
A Book of Articles to prevent or
detect frauds in the Customs, 1572 (ROSE)
Report on smuggling in the West
Country, 1577
Complaints of the Customer and
Controller at Bristol, 1580
Establishment of the Port of
Gloucester, 4 Oct 1580
Bristol’s petition against the
establishment of the Port of Gloucester, 1582 (ROSE)
Letter: Burghley to Fanshawe,
re. Port of Gloucester, 11 June 1582
Bristol Petition that Gloucester cease
to be an Independent Port, 25 May, 1584
A Letter from Burghley Forbidding the
Export of Wheat, 1584
A Petition from the Waiters in the Port
of Bristol, c.1584
Exchequer depositions concerning
Smuggling, 1585
That no Ordnance should be Exported
except through certain Named Ports, c.1587
Prohibited Goods Exported to Spain
from Bristol, 1587
Customs frauds in Kingroad
and the River Severn, 1588
Petition from the Waiters of the Port of
Bristol, c. 1590
Nicholas Thorne the younger's Will,
proved 17 September 1591
The suit to obtain the position
of customer inwards at Bristol for John Dowle, May
1593 (ROSE)
Hopkins v. Taylor, More Irregularities
in the Customs, 1594
The suit to obtain the position
of customer of Bridgwater for William Benger, 1596
(ROSE)
William Walton’s suit for the searchership of Bristol, July 1597(ROSE)
Petition from Bristol to Lord Burghley,
1597
Mural Decorations / Grisaille's from
the Dormitory of the Old Deanery, Bristol Cathedral, later 16th Century (c.
1MB)
Research
Projects
Joseph Beveridge, 'An assessment of the political stance of Bristol
merchants during the constitutional struggles of the late-1620s' (BA
Dissertation, University of Bristol, 2011). Published by the Department as a
joint-winner of the award for Best
Undergraduate Dissertations, 2011.
I. S. W., Blanchard, S. J. Newman, C.
R. G. Rees, G. M. Stacey ‘Report: Survey of Sources’ (Social Science Research
Council, Project 8205-1. The Anglo-Netherlands Bill Market and English Export
Finance 1440-1740, unpublished report, University of Edinburgh, 1982-3)
Charlotte Britton, 'Entertaining the Queen: Queen Anne's royal progress to
Bristol in 1613' (pdf). (BA Dissertation, University of Bristol, 2011).
Published by the Department as a joint-winner of the award for Best
Undergraduate Dissertations, 2011.
Robert Davies, ‘How successful was the common
informer system and how were they perceived in Tudor and Stuart England?
(Special Field Project, University of Bristol, 2017)
Jocelyn Davis, ‘What light do the
Mayor's Audit Books throw on the nature and evolution of the St James Fair
during the sixteenth century?’ (SIS / Special Field essay, University of
Bristol, 2015)
Jocelyn Davis, ‘Liquid assets: an
analysis of the supply and control of water in Bristol in the sixteenth
century, based on entries in the Mayor’s Audit Books, 1532-1574’ (MA
Dissertation, University of Bristol, 2015)
Oliver Dunn, 'The Petitions of Thomas
Watkins against Customer John Dowle 1598 - 1600'
(BA Thesis, University of Bristol, 2006)
Susan Flavin, 'The Development of
Anglo-Irish trade in the sixteenth century' (MA Dissertation, University of
Bristol, 2004)
Susan Flavin, 'Consumption and
Material Culture in Sixteenth-Century Ireland' (PhD Thesis, University of
Bristol, 2011)
Charlie Gent, 'The case of currants: The
Levant Company monopoly as a stimulus for Bristol’s illicit trade 1590-1666'
(Special Field Project, Bristol, 2009)
John
Godwin, ‘The origins of Bristol’s mayoralty’, Transactions of the Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological
Society, 133 (2015), 141–150 [Based on a MA dissertation]
John Godwin, ‘The Restoration and
its impact on Bristol’ (University of Bristol, draft PhD chapter, 2017)
Sophie Harcourt, ‘How did merchants seek to
circumvent Southampton’s monopoly on malmsey and the high custom duties on
sweet wines in the sixteenth century?’ (Special Field Project, University of
Bristol, 2017)
Alex Higgins, 'The Society of Merchant
Venturers’ attempts to obtain a share in the licence to export Welsh butter
in the early seventeenth century' (Special Field Project, University of
Bristol, 2009)
Alexander Higgins, 'The 1636-7 Royal
Commission investigating alleged smuggling offences committed by the
Merchants of Bristol' (BA dissertation, University of Bristol, 2011)
Alexander Higgins, ‘The
Establishment of the Head Port of Gloucester, 1565-1584 (Mphil
Thesis, University of Bristol, 2012)
Joe Inwood, 'How Did Anthony Standbank rise to prominence and become one of the
leaders of Bristol’s community?' (BA Essay, University of Bristol, 2005)
Joe Inwood, 'The Chesters
of Bristol: A Tudor Merchant Dynasty' (BA Thesis, University of Bristol,
2006)
William Jessop, 'Privateering in
Elizabethan Bristol, A Case Study on John Hopkins' (MA Dissertation,
University of Bristol, 2004)
Evan Jones, 'Bristol Shipping Industry in
16th Century' (PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1998)
George Mallet, 'The economics of the
illicit wine trade in Elizabethan England' (Special Field Project, University
of Bristol, 2008)
George Mallet, 'Early seventeenth
century piracy and Bristol' (BA Dissertation, University of Bristol, 2009)
Yoshihiko Okabe, 'Probate Inventories of
Bristol: Selected Examples from Ecclesiastical Cause Papers, 1694-1783'
(University of Bristol / Kobe Gakuin University,
2013)
Annabel Peacock, 'The Men of Bristol
and the Atlantic Discovery Voyages of the Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries
(MA Dissertation, University of Bristol, 2007)
Catherine Pitt, 'The Wine Trade in
Bristol in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (MA Dissertation, University
of Bristol, 2006)
Martin Rorke,
'Scottish Overseas Trade, 1275/86-1597' (PhD, University of Edinburgh, 2001)
Richard Stone, 'How were the Tyndall
brothers able to establish their fortunes?' (Special Field Project, University
of Bristol, 2006)
Duncan Taylor, 'The Overseas Trade of
Mid-Sixteenth Century Bridgwater' (MA Dissertation, University of Bristol,
2006)
Duncan Taylor, ‘The Maritime Trade of
the Smaller Bristol Channel Ports in the Sixteenth Century’ (unpublished PhD,
University of Bristol, 2009)
Eleanor Tyler, ‘“The Entertainementte
of the Righte”: An analysis of noble visits to
Bristol in the Sixteenth Century’ (Special Field Project, University of
Bristol, 2015)
Franky Wardell, ' Queen Elizabeth I’s
Progress to Bristol – an examination of expenses' (Special Field Project,
University of Bristol, 2009)
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