Originally, it was simply a sheltering place for wool traders.
He became a wool trader, probably working with his father.
Lesage came from Venoix near Caen and was originally a wool trader.
He waved the wool traders through with a warning to unload their pack animals and have them out of the town before curfew.
Initially he worked as wool trader, not rich and without any noble title.
Leslie, and perhaps his other son, went into business with him as wool traders.
Its original goal was to provide Australian wool traders with hedging facilities in their own country.
They had come abreast of a wool trader, who was haggling over fleeces beneath the archway opening into the city's central square.
He formed a business partnerships with the Altoviti family, who were influential wool traders and bankers.
His father was a wool trader turned banker.