One of the immediate and most important effects of the Act of Union in 1707 was the creation of a united free trade area managed from London. When pre-industrialization began a few decades later it ...

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The database forms the primary means of searching the class of records known as "King's Remembrancer, particulars of account and other records relating to lay and clerical taxation", or, more ...