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Scottish trade in the early modern era

From a low base at the beginning of the sixteenth century, trade expanded in the 1530s, but suffered from the English invasions of the Rough Wooing in the 1540s.

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Jenny Wormald has commented that "to talk of Scotland as a poor country is a truism".

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Haddington, which had been one of the major centres of trade in the late Medieval period, saw its share of foreign exports collapse in the sixteenth century.

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England was only the fourth most important trading partner, ranking just above the Hanseatic and Baltic ports and receiving mainly salt and coal.

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From there some were driven to Norfolk to be fattened before being slaughtered in Smithfield for the London population.

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