It was customary for the staplers to pay for their wool by bills due, as a rule, at six months, and Thomas Betson would be hard put to meet them if the foreign buyers delayed to pay him.
May is the great month for purchases, and Northleach the great meeting-place ofstaplers and wool dealers.
These two collections give us a vivid picture of wool staplersin their public and private lives.
Some of the wool came to London itself, where many of the staplershad offices in Mark Lane (which is a corruption of Mart Lane) and was weighed for the assessment of the customs and subsidy at the Leadenhall.
In those days the coat on the Englishman's back was made out of English wool, indeed, but it had been manufactured in Flanders, and the staplers saw no reason why it should ever be otherwise.
Six years later when the Staplers again summoned them before the King for their “crooked minds and froward sayings” and lawless deeds of violence, they answered with uncompromising contempt.
Cloth manufacturers in particular entered on a period of protected security such as the Staplers had never known, when kings became the nursing fathers of their trade, and its prosperity was considered an absorbing charge to the government.
In November, 1504, the Staplersand Adventurers appeared before the Star Chamber.
The Staplers pleaded a charter which declared them free from the jurisdiction of the Adventurers.
It was practically the jealousy of the Staplers that had first driven the Adventurers from Bruges, and no sooner did they feel their strength than they prepared to make their ancient enemies pay the penalty for old wrongs.
Driven from the marshes of Middleburg they turned to Antwerp which the Staplers had forsaken.
It meant that his future career was in jeopardy, especially as it was freely mooted that Sir Hardy Staplers was shortly to be made First Sea Lord of the Admiralty.
I brought the case before the notice of Admiral Sir Hardy Staplers on the eve of our dash for the North Pole.
The inspection finished, Admiral Sir Hardy Staplers and Whittinghame retired to the latter's private cabin to discuss the proposals for the "Meteor's" future.
Admiral Sir Hardy Staplers must have communicated with the Admiralty with the least possible delay, for one of Whittinghame's conditions was that he and his crew should receive official recognition.
As to the property assessed, wool-staplers and maltsters were the principal items.
But fellmongers and staplersas factors in English trade and industry were beginning to pass away by the middle of the seventeenth century.
The trouble seems to have been that the fellmongers and staplers were deemed useless middlemen between the growers and the clothiers, and injurious to the clothing industry because of their abuses.
The controversy was carried before the Council of State and its committees, and both fellmongers and staplers argued long and forcibly in defence of their trade.
English records to an organised body of wool merchants with a mayor and council; it is clear from the last words of the ordinance that both Staple and Staplers were older than the royal interest in them.
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