Steelyard, Merchants of the
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▪ association of German towns
in the later Middle Ages, members of the Hanseatic League, an association of north German towns, who resided at its London establishment, known as the Steelyard (probably from Low German stâlgard, a courtyard). German merchants from Cologne had enjoyed privileges in London from Anglo-Saxon times, and by the late 13th century had been joined there by others from east German towns such as Lübeck and Hamburg. The Steelyard was off Thames Street, near Blackfriars, with a frontage on the river. In that area the Germans were exempt from English jurisdiction. English merchants always resented their privileges, but their loans were useful to the English crown and their carrying trade of value to the economy. But by the late 16th century, English trade outweighed theirs, and in 1598 Queen Elizabeth I closed the Steelyard.
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