 The Tudor period was a time of transition for Leeds, from a relatively mean settlement to a solid cloth-trading town.In 1470, it was obscure enough to be described as being "near to Rothwell", which in the fifteenth century had the rights of a market town.By 1536, when John Leland visited it, he was able to report of it that it was a pretty market town which stood most by clothing and was as large as Bradford, though not so "quik", by which he evidently meant not so enterprising.