[Sca-cooks] Odd Book
Ian Kusz
sprucebranch at gmail.com
Fri May 6 20:18:42 PDT 2011
looked it up....woah, expensive!
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Daniel And elizabeth phelps <
dephelps at embarqmail.com> wrote:
> Picked up an odd book a while back and just got around to reading it,
> "Trade and Baking in Early Modern England." Only the first chapter "The rise
> of metropolitan markets" might be of interest to the list. It has a map of
> England showing the "farming countries of England" and goes into great
> detail about where things were raised and marketed and the movement of
> cheese, cattle, sheep, and poultry in the 16th century. It talks about what
> went by pack horse and from where, what went by wagon two wheeled and four
> and what went by boat up canals. Fair amount of information on how the mail
> was carried and money transported. All in all an odd little book. The
> remaining chapters go into commercial credit, bills of exchange that sort of
> thing.
>
> Daniel
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