Flanders
place · 4 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
coasts of Flanders · the industrious cities of Flanders
in the texts
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Region whose cities received English wool for cloth manufacture.
’ The English wool supplied the industrious cities of Flanders with material for their looms, and was carried to all points of the Mediterranean seaboard.
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
The coasts of Flanders, mentioned as an area requiring pilots whose service was withheld due to Cinque Ports jurisdictional disputes.
(8) If the King’s ships on the sudden have any need of pilots for the sands, coasts of Flanders or the like, wherein the portsmen are the best experienced, they will not serve without the Lord Warden’s or his lieutenant’s warrant, who perhaps are not near the place.
The Genius of the Common Law
Site of eighteenth-century military campaigns that occupied English attention alongside legal reform efforts.
They knew the raiment of the law wanted mending, and they mended it as well as they could in their time, having also campaigns in Flanders and Jacobite rebellions to think of.
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
A trading region across the Channel that exchanged woven cloth for English wool, mediated through London merchants.
Flanders bought English wool and sent back woven fabrics to rival which English looms could not aspire.