Chart showing the recorded place of origin of immigrants to England in the period 1330-1550: https://www.englandsimmigrants.com/search/chart/bar?chartFacet=originRegionCombined.untouched …pic.twitter.com/oMUFdNtrTY
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Paul Johnson from Rotterdam (Netherlands), living in Westminster: oath of fealty in 1436: https://www.englandsimmigrants.com/person/4630 pic.twitter.com/efXaoPV1rF
Another is Luke de la Ark, who came to England from Cappadocia (Turkey) & obtained letters of denization in 1541... https://www.englandsimmigrants.com/person/21667
Btw, project has useful mapping function w/ no. of 14-16thC immigrants from different towns: https://www.englandsimmigrants.com/map/origin pic.twitter.com/HYfoeVl3n4
Article on immigrants in post-referendum Boston, Lincs; fwiw, names of 351 immigrants recorded from 14–16thC Bostonhttps://twitter.com/nytimes/status/751956534595358720 …
Also interesting to note that one of earliest references to Boston is by al-Idrisi in the mid-12thC:https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/714388132339298304 …
Immigrant influence on Boston seen in, for example, early adoption of brick here from E14thC https://content.historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/boston-lincolnshire/boston-lincolnshire.pdf/ …pic.twitter.com/AO3xjDToqt
Boston's 14thC Guildhall—one of oldest brick structures in England+constructed w/ help of Flemish immigrants c.1390pic.twitter.com/lbiDSLuHaY
Further details+pics of Boston's 14thC Guildhall here: http://www.bostonguildhall.co.uk/index.aspx?articleid=5467 … (incl pic) & http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-1045-1/dissemination/pdf/StMarysGuildhall_Boston.pdf …pic.twitter.com/j6VJcexhQI
how do they count "Spain" here, if no unified Spanish state or kingdom at the time
It reflects the original 14thC description, see https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015031079406;view=1up;seq=33 …pic.twitter.com/vv5dmkohoE
interesting, same as "Italy" appearing (though not including Genoa and Florence)
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