At the end of the 17th century, with the beginning of the Nine Years’ War (1689) between Spain and France, a persecution of French goods, capital and subjects began throughout Spanish territory. In this situation, the smuggling judge Antonio de Torres Prieto visited Murcia and its commercial establishments to carry out a search of the goods present in them, focusing especially on the textile manufactures, thus focusing on their volume, typology and origin.
The source is not without its problems, as the possibility of merchants hiding part of their goods or manipulating the account books is constantly present, although it does provide key information on the stock of goods present in the establishments visited by the smuggling judge, and in order to try to be as accurate as possible, it also relies on the register of goods that entered and left through the customs office in Murcia.
From the visits to the shops in Murcia during the two-year period 1691 and 1692, some forty establishments, it can be shown that 66.3% corresponded to articles made of vegetable fibres (linen, hemp and cotton), 9.6% to silk goods and 23.3% to woollen goods, in keeping with the climatic conditions of the region and the city. The question to be dealt with here is the number of pieces found, since at no point is the question of whether they were sufficient to cover the needs of the inhabitants of Murcia and its immediate surroundings, who had been accustomed for some years to French textile manufactures.

Collection: Statistics

Project: 2. Social and economic impact of technological revolutions in Europe., 3. Rural world and urban world in the formation of the European identity.

Chronology: XVII

Scope: Secondary Education, Baccalaureate, University

Link: http://www.tiemposmodernos.org/tm3/index.php/tm/article/view/1279

Resource type: Statistics

Format: Table

Source: Arroyo, J. y Sánchez, J. A. (2016). "El comercio de tejidos al por menor en la ciudad de Murcia al inicio de la Guerra de los Nueve Años: Análisis de una coyuntura internacional", en Tiempos modernos, nº 32, p. 10.

Language: Spanish

Date: 2016

Owner: Roberto José Alcalde López (Modernalia)

Copyright: ©Tiempos Modernos ©Julio Arroyo Vozmediano ©Juan Antonio Sánchez Belén

Abstract: Table showing the weavings recorded by gender in Murcia at the end of the 17th century

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