Excerpt from The Scottish Staple at Veere: A Study in the Economic History of Scotland David I. (1124 we are informed, established towns and invited foreign traders to settle in them. During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries the Flemish settlements, re inforced in this way, acquired considerable importance. They were not confined to any one part of Scotland, though naturally it was chiefly on the East coast that the Flemings found a resting-place. Berwick they contributed to make one of the greatest commercial towns of the age. They were found thickly settled in Fife and Forfarshire, and Aberdeenshire was particularly distinguished for its colonies of Flemings, and even as far north as Inverness their industry left its mark on Scottish history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.