[Sca-cooks] Odd Book
Daniel And elizabeth phelps
dephelps at embarqmail.com
Sat May 7 05:12:16 PDT 2011
Correct "Trade and Banking"
Daniel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry Decker" <t.d.decker at att.net>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Friday, May 6, 2011 11:04:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Odd Book
>From your description, I assume that is "Trade and Banking..." rather than
the much more interesting "Trade and Baking..."
Bear
> 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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