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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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
Baldwin Brekemaker, a Dutchman living in Lincs, 1446—chief brickmaker for Tattershall Castle https://www.englandsimmigrants.com/person/37821 pic.twitter.com/Fu7jNJYdKc
Blaak Margaret, an immigrant living in Boston in 1440; no details on her origins, but thought to be a brothel-keeper https://www.englandsimmigrants.com/person/9631
Also ‘Gode for Eve’, ‘Long Grete’ & ‘Flemish Lysbet’, all from 15thC Boston; see further https://www.englandsimmigrants.com/page/sources/alien-subsidies/the-east-midlands/lincolnshire … & http://www.historischeskolleg.de/fileadmin/pdf/kolloquien_pdf/Kolloquien41.pdf …
wool.. ?
That and a wide range of other exports from Boston in 12th-14thC etc :)
Bloody Flemish, coming over 'ere an stealing work from our brickies! It'll never stand the test o' time, i'm tellin' ya!
Although the ancient Romans used bricks, and I thought they built brick buildings here in Britain before the fifth century.
some of my family were from Pembrokeshire. Big Flemish influence there, though tends to be more linguistic than architectural
Amazing! Over here, we hadn't yet shown up to ruin the lives of the Indians in 1390!
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