Series 5 > British Linen Company, 1745-1775

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THE BRITISH LINEN COMPANY
Shairp, Thomas, of Houston 30, 60, 71
shipping losses 44, 78, 92, 105,137
Sill, Bridges & Blount 92, 106, 150
Sim, William 43
Simpson, Alexander 204, 206
Sinclair, Samuel 201, 202
Skirven, Andrew, bleacher at Baldovie
127
Smith, Adam 16
Smith, Colin, bleacher at Brechin 4
Smith, James 84, 104
Sommervail, Alexander 201
Speirs, Alexander 54, 132
spinning: in Highlands 3, 9, 35, 44, 49,
53, 65, 86,113, 114,121,133,141,
142,170,182,196, 201; at LeadhiUs
31; in Orkney 27, 28, 43; at Salton
117
spinning mistresses 27, 36, 114
spinning and the cost of hving 102,
126, 141
stampmasters 3, 36, 84, 90, 124, 137
Stark, Mark, & Co. 195, 196, 199, 205,
208
Stewart, James, 8th earl of Moray 34, 57
Stewart, Mr, West India merchant 163
Stewart, Thomas 211, 218
Stirling 208, 223, 224
Stiven, David 34
Strathmiglo 118
Strathnaver, Lady see Morrison,
Katharine
Sunday observance 84
Sutherland, Mrs 80
Swan, George, bleacher at Perth 138,
141
TAIN 9, 42, 44, 86
tartan manufacture 224
timber imports 206
tobacco trade 102
Tod, William 3, 6,15,17,18, 25, 41,
60, 67, 80, 83, 84, 85, 87, 106, 107,
141,142, 148, 176,193, 223; in
Germany 8; in London on
parhamentary business 5, 10, 68;
takes charge at London 10, 65, 67,
79, 102; resignation and London
agency 12, 108, 109,110,141,146,
219, 220, 221,222
Tod & Anderson 130,139, 146,152,
153, 154,161,164, 166,167,170
Tranent 180
UDNY, George 69, 70
Urquhart, James 205
VITRIOL see oil of vitriol
WALE & FRASER, Riga 111
Wallace, Gardyne & Co. 184
warehouses 34, 102, 143, 193, 201
Warrington 103
Watson, John, writer 57
Watson, John, of Ceres 22, 82
weaving factories 83, 84, 85, 101, 106,
126, 143
Weir, William 51, 119
Wemyss, John 36
Whitby 115
Whitehaven 95
Whyte, Robert 22, 60, 63, 95, 99, 101,
102,115
Wick 9, 86, 90
Wight, Andrew 34
Wilkie, Captain Robert 78
Wilson, David, & Co. 130
window tax 57
Wolf, Baron, at St Petersburg 48, 67
wrecks 78
Wright, James 134