Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443-1509) was the mother of Henry Tudor (1457-1509). This edition selects the principal household accounts from the period (1498-1509) during which she ran her own household entirely independent of her third husband, Thomas Stanley, earl of Derby.
The Cantelowe Accounts record a large sale of English wool in Pisa and Florence in 1450-51 and offer the earliest evidence of an English merchant using Italian as a second language. The text features a unique mixed-language code (combining Middle English, Latin, Anglo-French and Tuscan) and an unprecedented near total use of Arabic numerals.
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