An excellent explanation of the concentration of Carpenters in Yorkshire is best given by Anne Crawford in her essential A History of the Vintners’ Company. She says: “It was his (King Edward l) great charter of 1302 which weighted the balance firmly in favor of his Gascon subjects. It allowed them to live where they liked instead of with a denizen (or native host) and to sell their wine wholesale to whom they pleased.” (Pp. 16-17) Thus the reason the Gascon Carpenters collected themselves in the Yorkshire area was one of law. They lived in a sort of trade ghetto. Also Crawford explains the great number of violence related court dispositions of these Carpenters. A kind of war had broken out between the English merchants and the now favored Gascons. A great number of murders took place. The records still exist and there were apparently economic motives and causes. Also Crawford explains how a denizen resident of London like Edward Carpenter (Eduard le Carpentier) was a true power broker. “Then he was in a very privileged position indeed”, she says.