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Overseas trade: the Middle Ages to the sixteenth century Aberdeen Inverkeithing Ayr Inverness c(2 Arbroath Irvine Banff Kinghorn -~ ~ Berwick Kirkcudbright Bu rntisland Linlithgow Cupar Melrose p. Crail Montrose All 0-Culross North Berwick CommocIiIies Durnbarton Perth Dundee Preston pans Dunbar Pittenweem Dysart StAndrews Edinburgh Stirling Berwick upon Tweed Elgin Wigtown Other English woOl 1375-80 Overseas trade: burghs' share ·of customs: fourteenth century Many further commodities were subjected to duty by lames I, of death was levied only on aliens. The sea fisheries remained insigwhich cloth, shorn sheepskins, salmon and lambskins (in that ornificant until the 1470s but thereafter the Forth and Clyde ports took der) were initially the most important -the duty on shorn sheepon a new lease of life, although on the east coast a high proportion skins and lambskin was introduced in the 1430s but after James I's of catches was exported through Edinburgh. All Cod SaIl CommocIiIies 1425-31 1475-79 Overseas trade: burghs' share of customs: fifteenth century did stimulate exports from ports like Dundee, Perth and Montrose; and Inverness (where returns for the 1590s are not extant) more this rise, especially in salmon exports, benefited Aberdeen (which than is suggested here, but the most dramatic increase' was in the did not custom salmon exported by burgesses until the late 1530s) ports of south-east Fife. All Cod SaIl Coal CommocIiIies 1535-39 1595-99 Overseas trade: burghs' share of customs: sixteenth century ML,ASt 243