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Discussing husbandry in Scotland - that Duchess of Gordon the younger was the first to introduce it there - concerning linen manufacture
Read to the Royal Society on 7 May 1730

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RBO/14/120
Earliest possible date
1730
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5 pages
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Manuscript

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'An account of a Book intitled: an Essay on Ways and means for enclosing following planting etc Scotland' by Cromwell Mortimer, 1730, RBO/14/120, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_14_120/an-account-of-a-book-intitled-an-essay-on-ways-and-means-for-enclosing-following-planting-etc-scotland-by-cromwell-mortimer, accessed on 15 June 2025

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