Appendix: Foreign trade in early modern Hull to 1700

A History of the County of York East Riding: Volume 1, the City of Kingston Upon Hull. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1969.

Citation:

'Appendix: Foreign trade in early modern Hull to 1700', in A History of the County of York East Riding: Volume 1, the City of Kingston Upon Hull, ed. K J Allison( London, 1969), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/vch/yorks/east/vol1/pp172-173 [accessed 26 November 2024].

APPENDIX: FOREIGN TRADE

TABLE 1: Wool Export: Denizen, 1510–47

(quinquennial figures) (fn. 1)



	Sacks exported
1510–14	1,452 (fn. 2)
1515–19	2,911
1520–4	1,877 (fn. 2)
1525–9	1,712
1530–4	348 (fn. 2)
1535–9	517
1540–4	655
1545–7	20 (fn. 3)

TABLE 2: Cloth Export: Denizen and Alien, 1510–47

(quinquennial figures) (fn. 4)



	Cloths exported
	Denizen	Hanse	Other alien	Total
1510–14	3,177	3,448	189	6,764
1515–19	2,872	3,543	209	6,624
1520–4	2,198	1,379 (fn. 5)	159 (fn. 6)	3,736
1525–9	3,023	2,550	155	5,728
1530–4	1,903	1,447	85	3,435
1535–9	2,966	314	185	3,465
1540–4	3,580	189	98 (fn. 7)	3,867
1545–7	186 (fn. 7)	202 (fn. 7)	172 (fn. 7)	560

TABLE 3: Cloth Export, 1614 and 1637 (fn. 8)



	To Baltic		To all other parts
	Kerseys	Dozens (fn. 9)	Kerseys	Dozens
1614	32,480	2,062	13,133	3,625
1637	13,742	4,759	20,613	16,734

TABLE 4: Cloth Export, 1609–1700 (fn. 10)



	1609	1637	1682	1700
Kerseys	39,079	34,355	34,399	53,868
Dozens	2,723	21,493	27,656	27,335
Bays		961	12,221	17,175

TABLE 5: Various Imports, 1633–96 (fn. 11)



	Iron	Flax	Hemp	Tar and pitch
(tons)	(cwt.)	(cwt.)	(lasts and barrels)
1633	66	6,830	185	13
1681	1,273	11,938	8,633	192
1685	1,971	9,185	18,187	250
1696	1,463	5,108	2,924	286

TABLE 6: Number of Ships Entering Hull from Abroad, 1567–1687 (fn. 12)



Origin	1567	1609	1637	1687
Low Countries	41	30	36	21
Germany		4	6	4
France	16	10	35	19
Spain	4	1
Total Western Europe	61	45	77	44
Norway	3	16	29	59
Sweden			7	16
Danzig, Elbing, and Konigsberg	14	33	32	16
North Baltic	4			18
White Sea and Arctic	4	4	1
Total North Europe and beyond	25	53	69	109
Scotland	43	19	6
America				1
Grand Total	129	117	152	154
English ships	61	60	105	135
Foreign ships	68	57	47	19

TABLE 7: Number of Ships Entering Hull Coastwise, 1600–92 (fn. 13)



	1600	1636	1692
Colliers	225	132	194
Others	68	186	145
Total	293	318	339