Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- List of Figures and Tables
- Introduction
- Part I Frameworks
- Part II Experiences
- 4 ‘Fire that's Kindled Within Doores’: The British Civil Wars and Interregnum, 1639–1660
- 5 ‘In Pursuit of His Majesty's Enemies’: Franco-Stuart Conflict, 1627–1667
- 6 ‘For the Security and Encouragement of the Free Trade of Scotland’: The Nine Years' War and the War of the Spanish Succession, 1688–1713
- 7 Beyond 1707: Franco-‘British’ Relations?
- Conclusion: ‘The Said Privileges are Still in Vigour’
- Appendices
- Appendix A Consumers of wine imported in the Rowland of Hambrough by John Harmonson Lepman, 22 January 1673
- Appendix B Customs rates, France, 1644 and 1667
- Appendix C Prizes brought into Le Havre, 1692–7
- Appendix D Passports granted to British ships in La Rochelle, 1695
- Appendix E Scottish ships granted permission by the Admiralty of Guyenne to pass through the port of Bordeaux, 1691–7
- Appendix F English Ships Granted Permission by the Admiralty of Guyenne to Pass through the Port of Bordeaux, 1689–97
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
7 - Beyond 1707: Franco-‘British’ Relations?
from Part II - Experiences
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- List of Figures and Tables
- Introduction
- Part I Frameworks
- Part II Experiences
- 4 ‘Fire that's Kindled Within Doores’: The British Civil Wars and Interregnum, 1639–1660
- 5 ‘In Pursuit of His Majesty's Enemies’: Franco-Stuart Conflict, 1627–1667
- 6 ‘For the Security and Encouragement of the Free Trade of Scotland’: The Nine Years' War and the War of the Spanish Succession, 1688–1713
- 7 Beyond 1707: Franco-‘British’ Relations?
- Conclusion: ‘The Said Privileges are Still in Vigour’
- Appendices
- Appendix A Consumers of wine imported in the Rowland of Hambrough by John Harmonson Lepman, 22 January 1673
- Appendix B Customs rates, France, 1644 and 1667
- Appendix C Prizes brought into Le Havre, 1692–7
- Appendix D Passports granted to British ships in La Rochelle, 1695
- Appendix E Scottish ships granted permission by the Admiralty of Guyenne to pass through the port of Bordeaux, 1691–7
- Appendix F English Ships Granted Permission by the Admiralty of Guyenne to Pass through the Port of Bordeaux, 1689–97
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
In 1650 James Mowat wrote in a letter to a business associate in Edinburgh that ‘if you werre hier you could gaine what you please, for theris many english and severall Scots that you might deall with’. The recipient of this letter was none other than John Clerk of Penicuik. As has been made apparent throughout this volume, Clerk was at the heart of a wide-ranging network of Scottish individuals and, along with other prolific Scots including Michel Mel in Dieppe and William Popple in Bordeaux, he not only pursued Franco-Scottish commerce but encouraged the participation of other Scots in these endeavours despite the inclement political climate. He was able to do this because of his own skills and knowledge, but he also drew on a wide range of networks and associations fostered over a long period.
Though the primary purpose of this book has been to explore the specific Franco-Scottish relationship, limiting focus to the Scottish experience leaves a great deal unsaid about the wider British agenda. As suggested by Mowat the networks fostered by Scottish mercantile agents in France during the long seventeenth century were not exclusively Scottish. English as well as Irish individuals participated in French commerce, if in different circumstances and with varying levels of success. The British perspective is one that is particularly pertinent in a period when the domestic political status of the three kingdoms of Britain was changing. As already discussed, the events of 1560 have been heralded not only as the moment the Auld Alliance ended, but as the beginning of closer relations between Scotland and England, apparently cemented by the 1603 and 1707 unions.
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- Conflict, Commerce and Franco-Scottish Relations, 1560–1713 , pp. 135 - 152Publisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014