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The Society Captures the Golden Fleece

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

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“The Golden Fleece; or the Trade, Interest, and Well Being of Great Britain,” a recent acquisition of The Business Historical Society, is a rare pamphlet dated 1736, which gives a contemporary summary of the wool situation in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. From the time of Edward III, the petted woollen industry, for so long the pride of Britain, enjoyed the protection of the government.

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