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The coastal metropolitan corn trade in later seventeenth-century England

The research for this article involved the systematic transcription and analysis of all data for the corn trade in the massive London coastal port books that survive for 14 years over the period 1649-1695, as well as that contained in more than 100 coastal and overseas port books for Kent ports and 33 coastal accounts for ports in south Wales, East Anglia and North-East England. The resulting article revolutionizes our understanding of the late seventeenth-century dimensions and constitution of what, apart from the coal trade, was the most important domestic seaborne commerce in early modern England.