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THE CELY PAPERS
SELECTIONS FROM THE
CORRESPONDENCE AND MEMORANDA OF THE CELY FAMILY
MERCHANTS OF THE STAPLE
A.D. 1475-1488
EDITED FOR THE ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY
by
HENRY ELLIOT MALDEN, M.A.
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
39 Paternoster Row, London
New York and Bombay
1900
Part
I: Introduction with Footnotes and Appendix I & II
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II: Letters 1 through 50
Part
III: Letters 51 through 91 | Part
IV: Letters 92 through 124
Part
V: Letters 125 through 150
The Cely Papers cover 1475-1488, and are a marvelous mirror into the
lives and lifestyle of a very wealthy family of English wool merchants,
members of the Staple of Calais and owners of business and residential
property in London as well as some estates in Essex. They traveled regularly
between England and the Continent on business and carry on a fascinating
correspondence that passes, often with amazing speed, between London
and wherever family members or members of the firm happen to be on the
Continent, but most usually they can be found at Calais or in their
London headquarters on Mart Lane.
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