Cotton manufadtures, fuftians, &c.
Refined iugars 5 Edinburgh, Glafgow, Dundee, &c.
Hats nearly equal to the Englifh ; Edinburgh. |
Thread and yarn o f all kinds.
Thread lace ; Dalkeith, Hamilton, Leith.
Paper, both for printing and writing.
Candles.
Soap, hard and fo f t ; Leith.
Snuff.
S a lt ; Alloa, Kirkaldy, Prejlon Pans, & c. Vitriol and fal-ammoniac.
Bricks and tyles.
Confiderable breweries for exportation at Edinburgh and Glakm.'
Among the arts not effentially neceifary for human life may be
reckoned the curious manufadtures o f leathern fnuff-boxes. The
artifts Meffrs. Wilfon and Clerk have extended it even to mufical in-
ftruments, and made a violin entirely o f leather, which, I hear, gives
as melodious a found as the belt o f wood: and that they have lately
made a German flute o f the fame materials. Paper has been lately
made o f the weeds taken out o f Duddingjlon Loch ; I do not know
with what fuccefs. Perhaps this was attempted after the example
o f the Germans, who have o f late made a fort o f nettle, and other
vegetables.
W O O L L E N
W O O L L E N M A N U F A C T U R E .
WO O L L E N manufadtures are mentioned in 1424, in the
fecond parlement o f James I. where it is difcouraged by a
tax. “ Item, It is ordained, that o f ilk poundes worth o f woollen
“ claith had out o f the realme, the King fall have o f the out-haver
“ forcuftom twa fhillinges.”
After this, feveral regulations were prefcribed by legiflature, and
the wool prohibited from being fent into England. A law o f James II.
in 1457, (perhaps for the purpofe o f peopling the boroughs, and
civilizing his people, by drawing them out o f the woods into civil
fociety) prohibits any but burgefies to buy wool, to lit, nor mak claith,
nor cut claith. Yet, not to leave the majority o f his people naked,
adds, Bot it is to be otherwife faid, g if ane man hes wall of his awin fheip.
James V I . who (notwithftanding fome o f us Englifh may think
otherwife) had frequent intervals o f wifdom, prohibited the wearing
o f any cloth in Scotland but what was the manufadture o f the country.
I imagine, that in defiance o f all the laws againft fmuggling o f
wool out o f the kingdom, it was carried to Flanders. Old Hackluyt
mentions it among the few exports o f Scotland.
Moreover o f Scotland the commodities
A re felles, hides, and o f wooll the j la f i .
A nd all thele mu it pafle by us away
Into Flanders by England, footh to fay,
A n d all her woolle was draped for to fell
In the townes o f Fop cringe and Bell *.
Hollinjhead mentions thefe towns, p . 614.
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