Intro; Preface; Contents; Abbreviations; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1 The Place of Credit and Coin in the Medieval English Economy; The Relationship of Credit to the Monetary Economy; The Shortage of Coin; The Crown and the Coinage; Barter; The Constraints on Credit; Usury and Interest; Risks of Default; The Instability of Credit; Crises of Confidence; The Balance of Trade and Coin; The Wool Trade and Credit; Chapter 2 The Records of the Statutes of Acton Burnell, and Merchants, 1284-1349; The Registries; Conflicting Interpretations of the Certificates

The Certificates of Debt as a Sample of CreditA London Merchant's Record of Credit; Creditors and Debtors; The Relationship Between Wool Exports, the Mint's Output of Coin and Credit; Chapter 3 The Contribution of Alien Creditors to the English Economy, 1285-1289; Italian Creditors, 1285-1289; Cahorsin Creditors, 1285-1289; Gascon Creditors, 1285-1289; German Merchants, 1285-1289; Other Alien Creditors, 1285-1289; London and Alien Merchants, 1285-1289; Chapter 4 English Wealth and Credit, 1285-1289; London and Its Region; Lincolnshire; Yorkshire; Shropshire; Hampshire

Credit in Other Coastal CountiesThe Inland Counties; Chapter 5 The Growth of English Credit, 1290-1294; The Northern Counties; Yorkshire; Shropshire; Lincolnshire; Nottingham; Chester; London and the Southern Counties; Hampshire; Bristol; The New Registries; Exeter; English Creditors and Debtors, 1290-1294; Chapter 6 Warfare, Currency Confusion and Falling Credit, 1295-1299; Hampshire; Lincolnshire; Yorkshire; Shropshire; Herefordshire; Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire; Devon; London; Chapter 7 Recovery and New Patterns of Credit, 1300-1304; London; Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire; Lincolnshire

NorfolkYorkshire; Shropshire; Herefordshire; Devon; Chapter 8 Monetary Expansion and Economic Growth, 1305-1309; London and Its Region; Oxford and Its Region; Bristol and Its Region; Norfolk; Nottinghamshire; Leicestershire; Lincolnshire; Yorkshire; Shropshire; Herefordshire; Hampshire; Devon; Chapter 9 Crises, Conflicts and Mercantile Credit, 1311-1329; Circumstances Inimical to Credit; Repeal of the Ordinances, 1322; Differing Regional Concentrations of Merchants; London; London's Region; Norfolk; Suffolk; Lincolnshire; Yorkshire; Shropshire; Herefordshire

Bristol, Somerset and GloucestershireNottinghamshire and Staffordshire; Chapter 10 Warfare, Gold and Regional Disparities, 1330-1339; London; The Expansion of London's Region; Norfolk; Suffolk; Growth in the Midlands; Northamptonshire; Warwickshire; Oxfordshire; Bristol, Somerset and Gloucestershire; Dorset; Cornwall and Devon; Counties with Declining Credit; Lincolnshire; Shropshire; Herefordshire; Yorkshire; Chapter 11 English Financiers, a Gold Currency and Plague, 1340-1349; Coin and Credit; Counties with Falling Credit; Oxfordshire; Norfolk; Counties with Increased Credit