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Assessments on burghs 1587 Tax CUstoms East Lothian E.Lothian assessmenIs assessments 1.25% 2.65% S.E. Fife 9.3% Tay 26.6% North East North East 14.3% 11.7% Tax and customs assessments 1587, by region Every region paid less in customs tax, except for Edinburgh, which had alone accounted for 61 % ofcustom paid 1581-3, and south-east Fife, where every port paid more. All the towns or ports of the Borders, Solway, Upper Clyde (including Glasgow) and the Upper Forth (except for Inverkeithing) paid less. Ayr was the only westcoast port with a large enough stake in the export trade for its assessment to rise. Of the Tay towns, only Perth and Montrose paid' more; and in the north-east a trio of Inverness, Elgin and Banff, 38.1 Customs 9.5 ~»>~~{{>~~~t.-, ..,~7",:,:.5~ .....;":'~};....,. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~I~~~~:~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ..... 28.8 Tax 6.0 which probably stemmed from their trade in salmon. Some entries for ports -like North Berwick, Nairn, Irvine, Whithom and Wigtown -are markedly lower in the customs tax and they may have relied on coastal rather than overseas trade. Yet no burgh was rendered exempt in the customs tax, even if some, like Tain and Forfar, had their assessments cut to a nominal fraction: every royal burgh, whether port or inland town, provincial or local market centre, depended to some extent on the export trade in staple commodities -wool, skins, hides, cloth, fish, salt or coal. 2.8 2.5 3.3 2.5 :::::::::::::::!:::::::::::::::!:::::::::::::::!:::::::::::::::1 Edinburgh Dundee Aberdeen Perth SI Andrews Glasgow Dysart Ayr Tax and Customs assessments on leading burghs 1587, as a percentage ML of total assessments on all burghs 315