recognition of the necessity for co-operation between Eng- 
land and Scotland in commercial undertakings which 
ultimately proved one of the essential factors in the move- 
ment for a closer union between the two countries. 
The materials for this account of the Royal Fisheries 
have been found in the University Library, Aberdeen, the 
Advocates’ Library, Edinburgh, the British Museum and 
the Record Office, London. I here acknowledge grate- 
fully my indebtedness to Mr. P. J. Anderson, Librarian, 
Aberdeen University, and to his assistants, to Mr. Dickson 
of the Advocates’ Library, and to the authorities and 
officials in the British Museum and the Record Office. I 
have to thank Mr. John Clarke, Lecturer in Education 
in the University of Aberdeen, for calling my attention 
to certain publications bearing on my subject. 
My deepest thanks are due to Professor C. Sanford Terry, 
of Aberdeen University, who has evinced the greatest interest 
in my research, and whose kindly advice has throughout 
been invaluable to me. 
Finally, I would express my obligation to the Carnegie 
Trustees for their generous grant in aid of the publication 
of this book. 
JOHN R. ELDER. 
ABERDEEN, November, 1911. 
