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Trade: wool producing monasteries The handbook ofthe Italian merchant, Francesco Balducci Pegolotti, which was composed about 1400, contains two lists of prices ofwool from various Scottish monasteries: the first list gives prices of three types of graded wool from eight monasteries (all of which except Dunfermline were Cistercian); the second gives seven houses which sold unsorted wool at an average of 9-10.5 merks a sack. The concentration of these wool producing monasteries (based on • Other places • Monasteries selling graded wool o Monasteries selling ungraded wool (Cl Cistercian house (B) Benedictine house lA) Augustinian house (T) Tironensian house Professor Duncan's identification of them) in the east and the southeast is striking. It underlines the predominance ofeast coast burghs in overseas trade. Berwick, and by the fourteenth century; Edinburgh were well placed to export wool which went mostly to Flanders; the ungraded wool came from their hinterlands. Although Glenluce and Dundrennan may have sent wool to Ireland, Pegolotti's prices suggest that their wool was of the best quality and perhaps worth transporting to the east. kms o I 25, 50 ,, 75, , 100 , , miles Wool producing monasteries EE 237Transcribers who have contributed to this page.
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