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Place-dates: David 11 to lames V The last three place-date map cover the reigns of lames III (146088), lames rv (1488-1513) and lames V (1513-42). The maps show respectively 12, 57 and 46 places where acts were issued: the durations ofthe reigns were about 28, 25 and 29 years. The frequency of the extant acts confmns the overwhelming preponderance of Edinburgh as the place of issue: these represent 98% ofover 900 acts, 70% of over 2000 acts and 50% of nearly 3000 acts. A striking fact is that during the period of lames Ill's adult rule (November 1469 to May 1488), out of a total of 712 great seal documents which bear a place of issue, all but five emanate from Edinburgh. This static royal administration differs markedly from the much wider distribution ofacts in the next two reigns. In all three reigns, the place where the biggest number of acts were granted was Stirling -respectively, 5%, 14% and 15%: in lames V's reign the Falkland number reached 6.7 %, and Linlithgow and St. Andrews had 4% but the number of acts issued in other places was minute in all three reigns. (The map of the place-dates for lames IV does not attempt to plot the detail of his Highland campaigns in the 1490s: and the English campaign of 1496 is the subject of an earlier map.) Edinburgh / ,J Places where acts were issued • One act o I ® Number of acts where more than one 0 Place-dates: James III (1460 -88) 25, 10 20 kms 50 ,, 30 miles 75, , 50 100 ,, 60 NATM 180

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