Chapter 22: Economic Development in Elizabethan England

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Value of trading activities to the economy in Elizabethan reign?
Considerably exceeded that of foreign trade, a wider range of luxury goods=imported (more affordable for wider range of population), Cloth trade w/Netherlands declined (major move to AMS), attempts to establish new overseas markets took place
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Attempts to expand trade? Who?
John Hawkins: invented English slave trade. Made 3 expeditions from 1562 acquiring slaves in Africa and selling them to South America. First 2=successful (but annoyed Spanish) 3rd = blockaded in San Juan de Ulua port.
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Main changes in English trading patterns in 1580s?
1) Main markets for English wool moved from Southern to Northern Netherlands. 2) increase trade w/Ottoman empire.
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Attempts at colonisation? Who?
1585: Raleigh, w/support of investor Walsingham, secured patent to colonise what would become known as Virginia + N Carolina. Disastrous, poor organisation, not Queen's priority (war w/Spain).
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Incomes of landowners?
Increased: Acquired a range of material possessions which would have been unknown to older generations.
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Consequence of knock-down prices of land after dissolution of monasteries?
Huge proliferation of building incl. country houses.
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