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Destinations of shipping from Leith, 1510 to 1513 The Leith port books for 1510-11 and 1512-13 are among the earliest century and, although there was no official Scottish staple in France, surviving Scottish port books. Unlike the customs accounts, the port Dieppe clearly attracted the bulk of Leith's French trade, at least books include the particulars ofthe cargoes sent by named merchants between 1510 and 1513. on each ship leaving Leith for foreign destinations. From 1508 Veere Despite growing political tension after 1509 and piracy was the compulsory entry port (or staple) for Scottish shipping committed by both sides, a few ships continued to trade with visiting the Low Countries; cargoes were mainly ofwool, woolfells England. Their cargoes, however, in which salmon predominated, and cloth, though some hides, skins and miscellaneous other goods were small. The low level of Baltic-bound vessels perhaps also were also sent. Most were probably destined for sale in the growing reflects the dangerous political situation in the Baltic. The Scots were commercial centres of Antwerp and Bergen op Zoom allied to the Danes in their war against Sweden and several Hanseatic The cargoes for French ports were similar though the proportowns, led by Liibeck, though Danzig endeavoured to remain neution of hides was somewhat larger. In addition, large amounts of tral. The Danzig-bound vessels were laden primarily with lambsalmon, cod and herring were also sent to Normandy. An expatriate skins. Cloth and coal were sent to Copenhagen, but the three Scottish community had lived in Dieppe since the later fifteenth Stralsund-bound ships were virtually empty. Numbers of ships 25 D D 0 • ~ 0 0 ~ Cl) :; "0 c: c: c: "0 C> Co ~ 0 0 c: Cl) c: ·N Cl) .:; "'" c: Co ~ .~ "0 C> :> c: Cl) .., c: 3-

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