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Overseas trade: the Middle Ages to the sixteenth century Woolfells, like wool, were exported mainly to Flanders and often together, as shown by the The Ledger of Andrew Haiybunon, a Scottish merchant and factor based in the Netherlands in the late fifteenth century. Yet the patterns, both of general export levels and of levels for individual towns, often varied significantly from those in the wool trade. Southern Scotland traditionally dominated the trade in woolfells even more than in wool, with over 70% ofthe trade in all but a couple of decades between the mid-fourteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Central Scotland had about 20% of the trade in woolfells, and northern Scotland under 10%. As in wool, northern Woollells :::;:::> (OOOs) 08 12 4 13i!! Stirling. Scotland's trade in woolfells was always monopolised by Aberdeen, Unlike wool, the volume of fells increased markedly in sixteenth century, reaching 18% ofall customs recei pts by the 1590s; and the capital largely benefited, holding 80% of the trade by the 1590s. With Linlithgow, the drop in fells came at much the same time as with wool; Haddington and Aberdeen compensated a little for their loss of wool exports with a reasonably steady share of the market in fells. In the cases of Dundee and Stirling, volume was actually rising quite sharply by the late sixteenth century. Woollells (OOOs) 150 100 4 ~Linlithg·OW Edinbu No returns extant Values (in OOs) too small to register on bar chart

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