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Book Review: Silk and Tea in the North: Scandinavian Trade and the Market for Asian Goods in Eighteenth-Century Europe

The chapter on the import trade of Welsh ports in the Middle Ages also provides much insight into the way in which this was organised looking particularly at the role played by Chester in the North. One Chester merchant William de Doncaster the elder seems to have played a key part in developing seaborne trade in North Wales, particularly Beaumaris. More could have been said about the links between Bristol and the Welsh ports on the other side of the Severn estuary including both Chepstow and Newport. This was certainly flourishing in the early sixteenth century, as demonstrated by the published exchequer customs accounts. There is much of value in this book for maritime historians with interest in both naval matters and sea-borne trade. In many ways, it fulfils the purpose set out by the author, drawing attention to what is otherwise a neglected area of medieval maritime history