4 Weather and Farming through the Eyes of a Sixteenth-Century Highland Peasant

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Contributors xi
5. Acknowledgements xiii
6. Note on Currency and Measures xiv
7. Abbreviations xv
8. Map of Scotland xvi
9. Introduction: Exploring Scotland’s Agricultural History 1
10. 1 Imagining Scottish Agriculture before the Improvers 24
11. 2 The Use of Dykes in Scottish Farming 1500–1700 50
12. 3 The Famine of 1622–23 in Scotland 70
13. 4 Weather and Farming through the Eyes of a Sixteenth-Century Highland Peasant 93
14. 5 Stock, Fermes, Mails and Duties in a Midlothian Barony 1587–89 130
15. 6 The Roots of Improvement: Early Seventeenth-Century Agriculture on the Mains of Dundas, Linlithgowshire 147
16. 7 ‘God Knowis my Sleipis ar Short and Unsound’: Andro Smyth’s Collection of Rent, Tax, Teind and Tolls in Shetland c.1640 164
17. 8 Farming in the Stirling Area 1560–1750 176
18. 9 What Were the Fiars Prices Used For? 199
19. 10 Agriculture and Banking in Eighteenth-Century Scotland 1695–1750 216
20. 11 Capitalism’s Cradle? Ideas, Policies and the Rise of the Scottish Economy in the Mercantilist Age 1600–1800 235
21. Conclusion: A Historiographical and Bibliographical Overview 263
22. Index 275