Gazetteer of Scotland

xxii INTRODUCTION.
on thofe who raife the greateft quantities of Scots flax, lintfeed, &c. They
have appointed ftampmafters in every confiderable town and village as judges
of the fabric of the linen manufacture, and to affix their ftamps, without which
the cloth is not deemed fufficient.
MONEY.
The currency of fterling money in Scotland and England is the fame. But
many of the Scots ftill retain the value and denomination of the coins, which
were in circulation in Scotland at the time of the union of the two crowns.
The penny Scots is only one-i2th the value of an Englifh penny ; the mil-
ling Scots is the 12th part of a fhilling fterling, or one penny fterling; the
pound Scots bears the fame proportion, or is equal to one fhilling and eight-
pence fterling ; and fo on of their merks, &c. : but thefe are not coins, but
only denominations of fums.
RENTS, VALUED and REAL.
In the Statiftical Account of Scotland by Sir John Sinclair, vol. xxi. p. 472,
we have a table of the valued rent in Scots money, and of the real rent in
fterling money, by counties, drawn up on fo apparently accurate a calcula-
tion, that we have thought proper to infert it in the Appendix, Table E. By
that table, the valued rent of Scotland is 3,802,5741. 10s. 5d. Scots, equal to
3i6,88il. 4s. 2d. one-i2th fterl.; and the real rent, including houfes, 2,937,5001,
©r, in round numbers, three millions fterling.
POPULATION.
The population of Scotland has been pretty accurately afcertained, at dif-
ferent periods : firft, about 1755, by Dr. Webfter, when engaged in eftablifh-
ing the fund for the widows of the clergy : fecondly, in 1790-8, by Sir John
Sinclair, in the returns from the different clergymen of their parifhes : and,
thirdly, by the returns made in 1801 by the different fchoolmafters, in con-
formity to an a<ft of parliament paffed that year. An abftract of the latter
we have the happinefs of being able to lay before our readers, in the Ap-
pendix, Table A,