Wool Staple Markets
Designated trading centers for grading, taxing, warehousing, and exporting wool.
Core metadata
- ID: wool_staple_markets
- Era: Medieval
- First known date: 1313 (year)
- Region: England / St Omer and later Calais wool staple
- Review status: source_checked
- Maturity: N/A
Prerequisites
- Bills of Exchange & Early Finance (bills_of_exchange_early_finance)
- Fulling Mills (fulling_mills)
- Guilds (guilds)
Dependents
- None.
Fields
- None.
Node sources
- The Merchants of the Staple of England (Company of Merchants of the Staple of England, 2026, review) • Supports: node
- Medieval customs accounts (The National Archives, 2026, official_agency) • Supports: node
Prerequisite edge evidence
Edge/source evidence summary:
- Prerequisite edges: 3
- Average edge confidence: 70%
- Prerequisite sources: 2
- expert_inference: 3
| Prerequisite | Type | Confidence | Evidence level | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fulling Mills (fulling_mills) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Fulling Mills provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. | No sources recorded. |
| Guilds (guilds) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Guilds provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. |
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| Bills of Exchange & Early Finance (bills_of_exchange_early_finance) | historical_predecessor | 75% | expert_inference | Bills of Exchange & Early Finance is an earlier historical predecessor or foundation, not a one-to-one engineering dependency. |
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