Siobhan Talbott is a research fellow at the University of Manchester, and previously held fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research, London. Her research interests lie in early modern British, European, and Atlantic economic and social history, and in particular the ways in which wars and other political conflicts affected trade routes and commercial relationships. She is Treasurer of the Economic and Social History Society of Scotland.

• Introduction; Chapter 1 Beyond 1560: The Auld Alliance; Chapter 2 Markets and Merchants; Chapter 3 'The Custom House Officers are So Agog of Seizing': Legislation and Commercial Policy; Chapter 4 'Fire That's Kindled within Doores': the British Civil Wars and Interregnum, 1639–1660; Chapter 5 'In Pursuit of His Majesty's Enemies': Franco-Stuart Conflict, 1627–1667; Chapter 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; Chapter 7 Beyond 1707: Franco-'British' Relations?; Chapter 8 Conclusion: 'The Said Privileges are Still in Vigour';

Siobhan Talbott is a research fellow at the University of Manchester, and previously held fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research, London. Her research interests lie in early modern British, European, and Atlantic economic and social history, and in particular the ways in which wars and other political conflicts affected trade routes and commercial relationships. She is Treasurer of the Economic and Social History Society of Scotland.

• Introduction; Chapter 1 Beyond 1560: The Auld Alliance; Chapter 2 Markets and Merchants; Chapter 3 'The Custom House Officers are So Agog of Seizing': Legislation and Commercial Policy; Chapter 4 'Fire That's Kindled within Doores': the British Civil Wars and Interregnum, 1639–1660; Chapter 5 'In Pursuit of His Majesty's Enemies': Franco-Stuart Conflict, 1627–1667; Chapter 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; Chapter 7 Beyond 1707: Franco-'British' Relations?; Chapter 8 Conclusion: 'The Said Privileges are Still in Vigour';

Siobhan Talbott is a research fellow at the University of Manchester, and previously held fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research, London. Her research interests lie in early modern British, European, and Atlantic economic and social history, and in particular the ways in which wars and other political conflicts affected trade routes and commercial relationships. She is Treasurer of the Economic and Social History Society of Scotland.

• Introduction; Chapter 1 Beyond 1560: The Auld Alliance; Chapter 2 Markets and Merchants; Chapter 3 'The Custom House Officers are So Agog of Seizing': Legislation and Commercial Policy; Chapter 4 'Fire That's Kindled within Doores': the British Civil Wars and Interregnum, 1639–1660; Chapter 5 'In Pursuit of His Majesty's Enemies': Franco-Stuart Conflict, 1627–1667; Chapter 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; Chapter 7 Beyond 1707: Franco-'British' Relations?; Chapter 8 Conclusion: 'The Said Privileges are Still in Vigour';