Exeter Cloth Dispatch Book, 1763-1765

TODD GRAY MBE is Research Fellow at the University of Exeter and the author or editor of a number of volumes on Exeter and Devon including William Birchynshaw's Map of Exeter, 1743 and The Chronicle of Exeter, 1205-1722.

• IntroductionCLAUDE PASSAVANT AND EXETERClaude PassavantExeter in the 1760sCLOTH MANUFACTUREClaude Passavant's dispatch book: an analysisExeter's cloth merchants and industry in the 1760sThe Incorporation of Fullers, Weavers and Shearmen, in 1764Exeter's fulling mills in the mid eighteenth centuryThe archaeology of the cloth industry in ExeterCloth dyes and dyeing in the eighteenth centuryAn outline history of the Exeter dyersExeter lead cloth merchants' seals - a provisional listingTillet blocksCLOTHTiverton's woollen cloth trade in the 1760sSandfordsPATTERN BOOKSWestcountry pattern booksNorwich pattern books, pattern cards and patternsFolding pattern cards: marketing Lancashire fustians in the 1780sTHE DISPATCH BOOKAppendix 1: The Topsham bale book, 1763Appendix 2: The cloth account of John Hern of Ashburton, 1771-76Appendix 3: Letter of Claude Passavant to Henry Pelham, 16 October 1752Appendix 4: Letter of John Siper to Thomas Windeatt, 5 July 1756Appendix 5: Four Devon dye recipes, c.1710

a well rounded detailed study of various aspects of the wool trade and cloth production in Exeter and surrounding area, based on a variety of sources, placing Exeter and Devon in comparison to other English textile centres of the period like Norfolk or Manchester.