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Valued rents ofburghs 1639 The valued rents of 1639 can be compared with the conventional tax assessments made in 1635. As might be expected, small but highly active ports, like Wigtown (but not Dunbar) and all those of southeast Fife, were taxed more highly than they were rated for rents. The same was true of small but bustling market towns like Jedburgh, Piltenweem Anstruther W Detail of South-east Fife Selkirk, Cupar and Lanark. The most intriguing contrast is for Glasgow, rated well above Dundee and Perth, but still in 1635 only taxed on a par with Perth; this suggests that its rise in the seventeenth century was initially triggered mainly by population growth, which after 1650 would come to be matched by economic expansion on all fronts. all!) 00 CD cIl~ al_ CIlC CIlal