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Liibeck (twenty) or of Holland (twenty-eight), this is not
a bad account for Scotland.1
The chief exports to Scotland consisted of iron, copper,
and tar, the chief imports of salt, cloth, wool, leather, and
manufactured goods. Pearls also were in great demand:
we even read of a recommendation given to pearl-fishers
that they should engage expert people in Scotland and bring
them to Sweden, where they were to enjoy the privilege of
free fishing in the rivers of the Crown.2 Prominent among
these was a certain Robert Buchan, “de Portlethin”
(Leith ?), as he signs himself. His letters to the Swedish
Chancellor Axell Oxenstierna show him to have been a
man of great mechanical skill, not without knowledge in
physics, botany, mineralogy, and alchemy, and of a very
singular character besides.3
Thus we see a commercial intercourse taking place
between the two countries which was neither insignificant
nor unimportant in its political aspect, especially when we
consider the small size and the undeveloped state of trade
of Sweden and Scotland.
1 See Schering-Rosenhane, Relation ofvcr Stockholm, in the R. A.
2 Riks-Rads Protokoll\ ix. 449.
3 Letters in the Riks A., Stockholm, dated about 1643. Once he
writes : “ Send me above all a man that will not talk.”
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