Presented in partial completion of the MA/MSc in International History at Columbia University and the London School of Economics, Thursday May 5, 2022 Word Count: 14995 “We learn that whereas the Hanse Towns have long enjoyed certain privileges in respect of the export of cloth from England… nevertheless certain malicious and envious citizens of London … Continue reading City of London v. Strangers: Hanse Merchants and the Changing Political Economy of Elizabethan England