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Merchant Research Project
Editorial history
15/08/2011, CSG: Created page
28/11/2011 and 13/04/2015, CSG: Restructured and rewrote introduction
Welcome to the Merchant Research Project wiki pages.
The Merchant Research Project provides a collaborative platform for scholars interested in the social, commercial and material life of merchants in mid-seventeenth century Europe and in the international reach of their lives.
Specifically, these wiki pages have been developed as a resource on the social, commercial and material life and environment of the Kent, London and Surat merchant Sir George Oxenden. However, it has the potential, through collaboration, to offer a broader connected micro-history of mid-seventeenth century commercial life.
The emphasis of the wiki is on making visible, and connecting, previously unpublished primary documents.
At its core is the previously unpublished private correspondence of Sir George Oxenden.[1] The correspondence is contained in letter books held at the British Library. These letter books are lightly indexed in the British Library online catalogue. They have neither previously been calendarised, nor have they been available in transcribed and annotated form.
A sense of the range of this correspondence in terms of the letter writers and their locations can be derived from an Alphabet of names and an Alphabet of places. Complementing these letters is a substantial corpus of primary legal documentation, drawn from the Court of Chancery, and increasingly from the High Court of Admiralty; together with post mortem inventories and wills proved at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.
The extent of the new primary and secondary material available on the wiki is described under Size & Scope of the Wiki.
The content of the wiki is work in progress. It does not constitute finished peer reviewed material, and is not provided for external publication, neither in whole nor in part.
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- ↑ BL, Add. MS. 40708-40713: Private correspondence of Sir George Oxenden, Oxenden papers, vols. 11-18
