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The annual data on textile-related trade, textile production, textile prices, price
indices, and wages in the medieval Low Countries and England provided in the following
spreadsheets have been extracted, over the course of many years, by Prof. John H. Munro
(Toronto) from the annual civic treasurers' accounts that have been placed in: the
Rekenkamer or Chambre des Comptes in the Belgian National Archives
(Algemeen Rijksarchief/Archives Générales du Royaume) and in the town archives of Bruges,
Ghent, Leuven, and Mechelen; and from the National Archives (Public Record Office) and the
Archives of the British Library of Political and Economic Science, and and certain published
documentary sources for both countries.
Some of these data have been published in quinquennial (5 year) or decennial means, along
with other textile data in: John Munro, "Medieval Woollens: Textiles, Textile Technology, and
Industrial Organisation, c. 800 - 1500", and "Medieval Woollens: The Western European Woollen
Industries and their Struggles for International Markets, c.1000 - 1500", both in David Jenkins,
ed., "The Cambridge History of Western Textiles", 2 vols. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2003), Vol. I, chapter 4, pp. 181-227; and Vol. I, chapter 5, pp. 228-324,
378-86 (bibliography).
Some data have also been reproduced in similar fashions (but not in annual indices) in
various other publications of Professor Munro, whose bibliographic citations are available
online at:
http://www.economics.utoronto.ca/munro5/Publications.pdf
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