The Scottish staple at Veere; a study in the economic history of Scotland . ed in favourof the term which is more familiar in connection with theEnglish Merchant Adventurers. The Scottish merchantswere authorised to appoint one or more governors, and thefact that the appointment was thus made by the Scottishmerchants marks an advance in the development of the Con-servators office, for the governors were thus Scottish officialsin a sense impossible in the case of the Conservators ap-pointed in accordance with the agreement of 1407. Thecloser definition of the governors judicial powers also mark
The Scottish staple at Veere; a study in the economic history of Scotland . ed in favourof the term which is more familiar in connection with theEnglish Merchant Adventurers. The Scottish merchantswere authorised to appoint one or more governors, and thefact that the appointment was thus made by the Scottishmerchants marks an advance in the development of the Con-servators office, for the governors were thus Scottish officialsin a sense impossible in the case of the Conservators ap-pointed in accordance with the agreement of 1407. Thecloser definition of the governors judicial powers also marksan advance to the extensive jurisdiction afterwards exercisedby the Conservator over the Scottish population resident atthe Staple port. During the fifteenth century the most interesting evi-dence in regard to the office of Conservator is to be found inthe commission given in 1472 to Anselm Adournes. Beforethis Etienne Anguis had indeed appeared as Conservator,defending the rights of Scottish merchants. In the caseof Adournes, however, the commission has been preserved,. THE CONSEKVATOE S HOUSE AT VEEEE. THE CONSERVATOE 363 and it is therefore possible to obtain from this document aclearer view of the contemporary conception of his officethan may be deduced from the slight references to the dis-charge of these duties by Anguis. The functions of theConservator as recorded in this commission were alreadyaccurately defined. His chief duties in regard to the defenceof the privileges of the nation, and the holding of courts ofjustice with the help of merchants at the Staple port werestated at length, and the arrangements made for raisinghis salary do not differ from those enforced at a later periodof the history of the Staple. Indeed it is not improbablethat a more rigid conception of the Staple contract and ofthe Conservators duties existed about the time of this agree-ment with Bruges, than is to be found in the opening yearsof the sixteenth century, when the system of exclusivel
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