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Title: The City of Glasgow : its origin, growth and development ; with maps and plates
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Newbigin, Marion I. (Marion Isabel), 1869-1934 www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/book... Royal Scottish Geographical Society
Subjects: Glasgow (Scotland)
Publisher: Edinburgh : Royal Scottish Geographical Society
Contributing Library: University of Guelph Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Scottish Studies Foundation (Canada)

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g the Commonwealth, the commerce of Grlasgow continued till1707 in its limited primitive state. There was probably some manu-facture of coarse woollens, chiefly for home consumption, as suggestedby the name Fullers Gate; but the finer fabrics and articles ofmanufacture were imported from England and France. Gibson statesthat the city had some maritime importance in 1546 (p. 203), whenScots vessels engaged in privateering against the commerce of England.The year 1567 is mentioned as remarkably successful for the fishing, andthe export to Rochelle of herring is given as 1700 lasts of 12 barrelseach. By 1597 there is a record of six vessels .belonging to theport, of tonnage from 21 to 92, and totalling 280, and wine and timber(from the Highlands) are mentioned as articles of trade (Marwick, p. 44).The period from 1630 to 1660 seems to have been prosperous, andtrade seems to have increased up till the time of the Union. McUrestates that one Walter Gibson chartered the St. Agat of Holland,
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OVERSEAS RELATIONS. 63 450 tons, loaded her with 300 lasts of herring (12 barrels to the last),costing £6 sterling per last, and disposed of the cargo for a barrel ofbrandy and a crown per barrel at St. Martins in France. The returncargo was salt and brandy, and sold for such a sum that Gibson boughtthe ship and two other large vessels, with which he carried on a largetrade with France, Spain, Norway, Swedland, and Virginea. He issaid to have been the first to import iron direct to Glasgow, earliersupplies having come with dyestuffs from Stirling and Boness(McUre, p. 167). There follows a list of over a hundred trading to Virginea, Carriby-islands, Barbadoes, New England, St. Christophers,Monserat . . . The Tobacco Period^ 1707-1775.—Although at least the com-monalty of Glasgow was sufficiently opposed to the Union to indulgein rioting, the merchants were very much alive to the value of thecolonial trade. By the beginning of the eighteenth century the manu-factures were coming into

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