The Records of a Scottish Cloth Manufactory at New Mills, Haddingtonshire, 1681-1703: Edited From the Original Manuscripts, With Introduction and Notes (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Lord rosebery, in moving the adoption of the Report of the Scottish History Society in 1908, drew attention to the valuable information, relating to the environment of those who lived long ago, contained in their account-books, diaries, and family papers. In the Account Book of Sir John Faults, 1671-1707, members of the Society already have a record of the purchases of a gentleman of the period, and the manu scripts printed in this volume are supplementary in so far as they cover much of the same interval, but treat of it from the point of view of the producer rather than that of the consumer. Further, being minutes, and not formal accounts, these documents contain a large amount of new material, dealing not only with the mechanism of business, but with the life of the time.

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