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Scottish trade in the seventeenth century Thomas Tucker's reorganisation of customs administration in 1656 was continued and extended after the Restoration. By the 1680s there were over twenty 'precincts', each with its head port where customs were collected: their approximate boundaries are given here, with details of imports, drawn from T C. Smout, Scot/ish Trade on the Eve ofUnion (1963), for the main ports only. The precincts included five along the Border, made necessary by the re-imposition ofan English customs barrier after 1660. Deals (sawn fir planks) and iron came from Norway and Sweden respectively, mostly into eastcoast ports; madder, a dyestuff, from the Netherlands; most leather, ..... 25 50 75 100 0102030405080 dealS :-: iron madder .. leather by contrast, came from England, either by sea into the Clyde or overland. Wine, by contrast, came largely from France, dried fruit from the wholesale markets of the Netherlands, hops from England or Flanders; cooking pots, brass ware kettles and the like from northwest Germany and Sweden as well as from England and the Netherlands. The quantities of lUXUry consumables coming into Leith confirms it as an entrepat for other Scottish ports and the capital as a centre of conspicuous consumption; but the disproportionate amount of madder and pots entering Bo' ness was far more than local needs merited and must have been transported overland to the west and south-west. ..... 25 50 75 100 o 10 20 30 40 50 eo Wine :-: dried fruit hops . . pots Imports of deals, iron, madder and Imports of French wine, dried fruit, leather by ports 1686 to 1696 hops and pots by ports 1686 to 1696 276

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