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- Title
Money supply and credit in rural Cheshire, c.1600-c.1680.
- Authors
MATTHEWS, STEPHEN
- Abstract
This article examines the incidence of moneylending and the supply of cash in four rural communities and one small urban centre in Cheshire through the seventeenth century. The evidence on which it is based is drawn from wills and inventories, supplemented by such probate accounts and depositions as are available. It considers the questions of who lent money and to whom, for what purposes and in what amounts. It also examines the incidence of cash holdings in inventories and the effect that the Civil War and its aftermath had upon the availability of cash.
- Subjects
CHESHIRE (England); ENGLAND; UNITED Kingdom; MONEY supply; MONEYLENDERS; ENGLISH civilization; DEBTOR &; creditor; ECONOMICS of war; BRITISH history sources; STUART Period, Great Britain, 1603-1714; BRITISH Civil War, 1642-1649; SEVENTEENTH century
- Publication
Continuity & Change, 2009, Vol 24, Issue 2, p245
- ISSN
0268-4160
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0268416009007176