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Restructuring urban economies in the later Middle Ages The dependence of west-coast ports on wool seems always to have been much slighter, but a signjficant cloth industry, with its markets in Brittany, Bordeaux and La Rochelle, is evident in Ayr and Dumbarton in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and Irvine in the sixteenth, as well as in Kirkcudbright and Wigtown, which are not shown, in the fifteenth. Ayr Dumbarton All three of the ports shown developed an interest in the export of hides which fell away sharply -after 1470 in the case of Ayr and Irvine, but not until the late 1550s in the case of Dumbarton. By the second half of the sixteenth century, all three were largely dependent on the herring industry, which had been revived in the 1480s. • Banff • Inverness Irvine Englishmen's imports English wool Wool Woolfelis Hides Cloth Skins Salmon Herring Cod Salt Coal Customs on exports by commodity 1327 -1590 ML,ASt 247

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