Excerpt from The Compt Buik of David Wedderburne Merchant of Dundee 1587-1630: Together With the Shipping Lists of Dundee 1580-1618It is certainly very carefully formed, although we may regret that it appears intended to contain and exhaust all articles of possible commerce. It would have suited our pur pose, the purposeof the historian, better, if it had indicated the commodities which were habitually, or even occasionally, shipped and landed, bought, sold, bartered in Scotland, just nine years after King J ames had gone to fill the long-expected seat of Queen Elizabeth, and thought that he had ended the national feud which had so long interrupted. The'commerce of his two kingdoms.'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.