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Scottish trade in the seventeenth century Linen cloth accounted for at least a third and, at times, two-thirds of the value ofall exports to England. But cattle, driven overland mostly through Carlisle (and not shown here), was probably the most consistently valuable single export to England and must have seriously reduced the amount of hides exported there and elsewhere by sea. The map does not, however, reflect the large number of small, open boats plying southwards across the Solway with hides and other staple wares. Other skins continued to be shipped, especially to London, which in peak years received as many as the Baltic. Neither ........ . .... .. ... . ,':::::::::::::::::::::::: i"l" Other countries '.:.::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ::::::::::::::.' 84.2% ................... . . ,-:-:::::::::::::::::::::::::-:-", Percentage of ships departing from Scotland 1680 to 1686 1000 herring nor salmon figured greatly amongst exports to England and barriers were successfully raised against cheaper Scottish grain, salt and coal after the Restoration, although the large number of ships leaving Prestonpans and Bo'ness were small colliers. Exports to Spain were slight and those to America, confined largely to west-coast ports, were mixed -including indentured servants as well as coal, linen and woollen cloth -but as yet modest in both value and quantitiy \1)] Total number of ships departing from Scotland 1680 to 1686 Number of ships departing from Scotland to England, ML Spain and America 1680 to 1686, by burgh 282

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