ANNALS OF SCOTLAND. 71 



by Henry, was, c< That the {hips were carrying pro- 

 vifions to his enemies, the French, and that the 

 crews had fpoken difrefpe&fully of the Englifh 

 party in Scotland." To this it was anfwered by 

 the Scots, cc That the fliips were only laden with 

 fjh, and that the treaty did not prohibit the fubjects 

 of Scotland from carrying on their trade as ufual." 



In 1 544, the Englifh army pillaged the town of 

 Leith; " where/' fays lord Herbert, <c they found 

 more riches than they could have eafily imagined." 

 Dr. Drake, another Englilh hiftorian, fpeaking of 

 that period, relates, " That his countrymen took 

 twenty-eight of the principal fhips of all Scotland, 

 fraught with all kinds of rich merchandife, as they 

 returned from France, Flanders, Denmark, and 

 other countries, and brought them into Englifh 

 ports." 



In 1545, Henry prevailed with the Flemings ta 

 feize fixteen Scots fhips and their cargoes. 



Louis Guicciardin, in his account of the com- 

 merce of Antwerp with foreign nations, about the 

 year 1560, fays^, " To Scotland Antwerp fends but 

 little, as .that country is chiefly fupplied from 

 England and France. Antwerp, however, fends 

 thither fome fpiccs, fugars, madder, wrought filks, 

 camblets, forges, linen, and mercery. And Scot- 

 land fends to Antwerp vaft quantities of peltry, of 

 many kinds, leather, wool, indifferent cloth, and 

 fine large pearls, though not of quite fo good a 

 water as the Oriental ones." The fame author, 

 fpeaking of the commerce of Holland, obferves, 

 " ThatVere, or Campvere, owes its principal com- 

 merce to its being the fVaple port for the Scot* 

 fhipping, and fo has been for a long feries of years," 



Befides Campvere on the continent, the antient 

 city of St. Andrews had long been a mart of gene-* 

 ral commerce. The town was large, elegant, full 

 of merchandife, fhipping, and bufmefs. It was the 

 great refort of trading veflels from all parts of 

 Jturope, who, to the amount of three or four hundred, 



E 4 held 



