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This volume presents early insurance registers kept by the Sun Fire Office, which list and value the goods of cloth manufacturers. The textile industry was an important part of Devon's economy in this period and these documents survive in greater numbers for Devon than for any other area outside London. They tell us much about an important eighteenth-century industry, as well as about economic history and the history of business and insurance.

The Devon Cloth Industry in the 18th Century

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    Publisher: Devon & Cornwall Record Society
    Publication Date: 01/01/1978
    ISBN13: 9780901853226, 978-0901853226
    ISBN10: 0901853224

    Number of Pages: 186

    Non Fiction , History

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    This volume presents early insurance registers kept by the Sun Fire Office, which list and value the goods of cloth manufacturers. The textile industry was an important part of Devon's economy in this period and these documents survive in greater numbers for Devon than for any other area outside London. They tell us much about an important eighteenth-century industry, as well as about economic history and the history of business and insurance.

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