Scotland - Economic conditions - Early works to 1800

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To His Grace Her Majesties High Commissioner and the Honourable Estates of Parliament . The Heemble Petition of the peer Shank Workers and Fingren Spinners of Aberdeen, and Places thereabout.
Date: 1707?]
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Observations on the means of exciting a spirit of national industry chiefly intended to promote the agriculture, commerce, manufactures, and fisheries, of Scotland. in a Series of Letters to a Friend. Written in the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-Five. By James Anderson, Author of the Essays Relating to Agriculture and Rural Affairs.
Anderson, James, 1739-1808.Date: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]
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Essays on the trade, commerce, manufactures, and fisheries of Scotland Containing, Remarks on the Situation of most of the Sea-Ports; the Number of Shipping employed; their Tonnage: Strictures on the Principal Inland Towns; the different Branches of Trade and Commerce carried on; and the various Improvements made in each: Hints and Observations on the Constitutional Police; with many other Curious and Interesting Articles never yet Published. By David Loch Merchant, And General Inspector of the Fisheries in Scotland. In three volumes.
Loch, David, d. 1780.Date: M,DCC,LXXVIII. [1778]-79
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Reflections on the causes and probable consequences of the late revolution in France with a view of the ecclesiastical and civil constitution of Scotland, and of the progress of its agriculture and commerce. Translated from a series of letters, written originally in French, and dedicated to the National Assembly, by Mons. B-de.
B-de, Mons.Date: M,DCC.XC. [1790]
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The statistical account of Scotland Drawn up from the communications of the ministers of the different parishes. By Sir John Sinclair, Bart.
Sir John Sinclair, 1st BaronetDate: M,DCC,XCI. [1791]