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The Exeter Cloth Dispatch Book, 1763-1765 (Devon and Cornwall Record Society, 63)
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Synopsis "The Exeter Cloth Dispatch Book, 1763-1765 (Devon and Cornwall Record Society, 63)"
This book reproduces a newly discovered manuscript detailing the exports of Claude Passavant, a Swiss émigré merchant. Passavant's dispatch book comprises the most extensive surviving collection of Devon cloth with 2,475 surviving cloth samples. Thirteen chapters discuss the local and wider contexts of sixteenth century cloth making. This study explores the quality, range, and vibrancy of cloth that lead to Exeter becoming an internationally renowned centre for the manufacture and trade of woollen cloth.TODD GRAY MBE is Research Fellow at the University of Exeter and the author or editor of a number of volumes on Exeter and Devon including William Birchynshaw's Map of Exeter, 1743 and The Chronicle of Exeter, 1205-1722.Table of ContentsIntroductionCLAUDE PASSAVANT AND EXETERClaude PassavantExeter in the 1760sCLOTH MANUFACTUREClaude Passavant's dispatch book: an analysisExeter's cloth merchants and industry in the 1760sThe Incorporation of Fullers, Weavers and Shearmen, in 1764Exeter's fulling mills in the mid eighteenth centuryThe archaeology of the cloth industry in ExeterCloth dyes and dyeing in the eighteenth centuryAn outline history of the Exeter dyersExeter lead cloth merchants' seals - a provisional listingTillet blocksCLOTHTiverton's woollen cloth trade in the 1760sSandfordsPATTERN BOOKSWestcountry pattern booksNorwich pattern books, pattern cards and patternsFolding pattern cards: marketing Lancashire fustians in the 1780sTHE DISPATCH BOOKAppendix 1: The Topsham bale book, 1763Appendix 2: The cloth account of John Hern of Ashburton, 1771-76Appendix 3: Letter of Claude Passavant to Henry Pelham, 16 October 1752Appendix 4: Letter of John Siper to Thomas Windeatt, 5 July 1756Appendix 5: Four Devon dye recipes, c.1710
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