The result was a substantial influx of money that in turn encouraged the import of manufactured luxury goods; by 1391 shipments from abroad routinely included "ivory, mirrors, paxes, armour, paper..., painted clothes, spectacles, tin images, razors, calamine, treacle, sugar-candy, marking irons, patens..., ox-horns and quantities of wainscot".Ramsay, pp. xxxi–xxxii. Imported spices now formed a part of almost all noble and gentry diets, with the quantities being consumed varying according to the wealth of the household.Woolgar, p. 30. The English government was also importing large quantities of raw materials, including copper, for manufacturing weapons.Ramsay, p. xxxii. Many major landowners tended to focus their efforts on maintaining a single major castle or house rather than the dozens a century before, but these were usually decorated much more luxurious than previously. Major merchants' dwellings, too, were more lavish than in previous years.Kermode, pp. 19–21.
