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Overseas trade: the Middle Ages to the sixteenth century A huge variety of animal skins was exported, ranging from rabbit to duties on lambskins and shorn sheepskins seem to have been goat and otter, but the main groups were lambskins and shorn successfully resisted until the late 1570s; whereupon lambskins in sheepskins. Duty was introduced on wild animal pelts in 1424 and on particular reappear as major exports. In the intervening period, while lambskins and shorn sheepskins in 1434. The recorded volume of duty was apparently levied on wild animal pelts, duty on lambskins wild animal pelts exported was always low, but huge quantities of and shorn sheepskins seems only to have been collected from foreign lambskins and shorn sheepskins were exported in the short period merchants. Even so, the customs returns on these skins were far between the introduction of the new duties and the death of James I greater than on wild animal pelts, most of which may simply have in 1437. evaded duty. Skins Duty on all these skins lapsed after James I's death and was (ODDs) not reintroduced until the 1450s. For whatever reason, customs 250 Inverness 200 ~ 1..1 Aberdeen-- 150 100 mTTli Perth Dy~a 7!11il1'V". B ~ Inverkeithi.'2..g~ /'iNorth Berwick.,.l1