72:(modernised) There stands yet 2 sacks of wool of yours unsold, and when they are sold, I shall send you your reckoning of all things between us. ... Please you to know that here is an evil market, so help me God, except your wool, ... Hides (skins), I believe, shall be the best merchandise that come here at Eastertide, for there is many folk that ask for them
69:"Thar standis yet ii sekkis of woll of youris unsauld, and quhen thai are sauld, I shall send you your reckoning of all things between us. ... Please you to wit that here is an evil mercat, sa help me God, except your woll, ... Hydis, I trow, shall be the best merchandise that come here at Pasche, for thar is many folkis that speris (ask) about thaim"
65:. Halyburton's ledger provides evidence on the exchange rates for the gold and silver coins used in international trade. Primarily, Andrew's clients sent him wool or skins to sell. A letter from Andrew to a Scottish client survived with the ledger, advising hides would sell best at Eastertide 1502; he wrote,
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called Andrew 'our merchant' and 'the King's familiar servant,' and 'privilegiorum nationis in istis terris conservator,' - conservator of our nation's privileges in your lands. The letters reminded the council of
Middelburg of Andrew's jurisdictions over Scottish trade issues, and how he should
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Andrew
Halyburton bought painting materials in Antwerp for an Edinburgh merchant, Thomas Cant, in June 1497. Thomas Cant had sold cloth, clothes, and hats to the royal wardrobe since 1474, and Master John Cant, probably his son, bought a
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One of Andrew's ledgers survives in which he recorded a series of accounts he opened with
Scottish clients who sent money and goods to him in Flanders, often to fund special purchases. Some of the cargoes were carried in the ships of
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where he was 'Conservator of the
Scottish Staple,' or 'Conservator of the Scottish privileges in the Low Countries.' A surviving letter in French calls him, 'Conservateur de la Nasion des Eschosoys a Midelburg.' This
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was granted to John
Mossman, as attorney of Andrew's son, Thomas Haliburton. The 'sasine' of this transaction was disputed by a neighbor John Knollis. Thomas was dead by 1534, and his sister Cornelia was his heir.
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role administered to the
Scottish import and export trade with the county of Flanders. However, few official Scottish or Flemish records of Andrew's administration survive. In two letters to the town of Middelburg
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in 1503. Few details are known of Piers' work, except his assistance in painting costumes and heraldry for tournaments, but the King gave him a salary and accommodation, and it is likely that Piers
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Andrew
Halyburton was well-connected in the close-knit society of Edinburgh merchants. His sister Helen Halyburton was married to Laurence Taillefer who was joint 'Customar of Edinburgh' with
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Andrew
Moubray senior was married to a Jonet Halyburton, who was perhaps Helen and Andrew's eldest sister. Jonet's brothers James and David Halyburton served in the
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in May 1506. Andrew was described as an 'agent in
Flanders.' On 31 December 1507, James IV appointed John Francis as 'Conservator of the Privileges in Flanders,
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and father of the younger Andrew
Moubray's wife Katrine, as his 'gossop,' a Scots word meaning relative. He called an associate, the Edinburgh textile merchant
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In September 1505 Halyburton hired a Flemish painter, 'Piers', to come to Scotland and work for James IV. This was possibly Peerken Bovelant, an apprentice of
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senior. The role of the Customar was to collect trade taxes in Edinburgh for the crown. Helen Halyburton had previously married a member of the
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349:, London: Royal MS. 13 B II, fol. 7: Smit (1942), pp. 107-8 no. 144, another royal letter regarding Andrew from the archives of Middelburg.
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677:(Edinburgh, 1867), pp. xxvi fn, 25-6 , pp. 89-91, account of "Andrew Moubray younger"
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acted on Andrew's behalf, enforcing the payment of rent at Andrew's house on the
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De Liggeren en andere Historische Archieven der Antwerpsche Sint Lucas gilde
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speak in their courts on behalf of Scottish sailors and captains.
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M. M. Archibald, 'Coinage in Andrew Halyburton's Ledger,' in,
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Halyburton paid money to the Italian merchant and financier
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Studies in Numismatic Method, Presented to Philip Grierson
316:(Edinburgh, 1867), p. xx & illustrated frontispiece.
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Hugo Van Der Goes and the Trinity Panels in Edinburgh
437:; 'through stone,' 'through n.,' 'throuch, Scots n.'
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26:(before 1490 – 1507) was a Scottish merchant.
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524:Accounts of the Treasurer: 1506-1507
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403:(Edinburgh, 1867), pp. xxi-xxii.
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651:(Mainstream, 1990), pp. 19, 27.
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