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Study of the Edinburgh burgess community and its economic activities, 1600-1680

While many histories of Edinburgh have been written, dealing with
the architecture, folklore, culture, religion and politics of the city
in the last five hundred years, little attempt has been made to chart
the economic progress or to investigate the social structure of
Scotland's capital. This thesis aims to illustrate the economic
history of Edinburgh in the seventeenth century and to depict the
urban' society of the period, largely through the exploits of its
freemen, the burgess community.

Edinburgh suffered its own particular disasters in a century
whose middle years saw unprecedented national conflict. The accession
of James VI to the English throne in 1603 removed the' Scottish king
and court to London. The last visitation of bubonic plague to
Scotland in 1645 removed anything up to one-third of the population of
Edinburgh, its port of Leith and outlying suburbs. In addition, the
city's role as capital of a rebellious kingdom ensured her twenty
years of both physical turmoil and financial hardship, firstly at the
hands of the Covenanters and secondly under the occupation of
Cromwell. One question which should be asked, but can only be
partially answered from the available research material, is - what
effect did these incidents and intervals have on the economy of the
city?

Edinburgh was not noted as a manufacturing centre; its economic
importance rested on trade and commerce. It is therefore to the
merchants of the city that we should look for an insight into the
economic condition of the burgh, and to a lesser degree, to the
craftsmen, their socially inferior partners in the burgess community.
The numbers, origins, status and social mobility of both groups have
been studied, together with the sources and distribution of their
wealth, in terms of goods, money, shipping and property. The impact
of Edinburgh and its traders on other regions of Scotland has also
been examined, and comparisons have been made, where possible, between
the Scottish capital and the larger English towns. Finally, by using
a variety of economic indicators, an impression has been pieced
together of the economic progress of Edinburgh in the seventeenth
century

McMillan, Joyce K.

Edinburgh Research Archive

A study of the Edinburgh burgess community and its economic activities, 1600-1680

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Study of the Edinburgh burgess community and its economic activities, 1600-1680.

Study of the Edinburgh burgess community and its economic activities, 1600-1680.

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