Excerpt from Medieval Scotland: Chapters on Agriculture, Manufactures, Factories, Taxation, Revenue, Trade Commerce, Weights and MeasuresThese chapters, with two exceptions, originally appeared in the Glasgow Herola' as a series Of articles on Early Scotland: and I am much in debted to the proprietors of that paper for their courteous and liberal permission to reprint them. Two articles which appeared in that series, one on the Currency and the other on the Early Mining Industries, are already in a permanent and extended shape in the Introductions to the Records of flu: Coz'nage of Scotland and Records of Early Mining in Scoilana', and have not been reprinted.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.