Scottish Custom Books V0.8

This model has been trained on a text collection consisting of samples from the Scottish port books dated between 1660 and 1691 all from the collection of the National Records of Scotland. The model has been trained in order to provide a systematic analysis of the overseas’ export of Scotland in the period following the Stuart restoration of 1660 and ending with the Act of Union of 1707. The model has been trained on complete port books from nine different ports representing the different jurisdictions of seventeenth century Scotland. The following port books has been included in the training material: Aberdeen (1690-91), Ayr (1667, 1681, 1681-82, 1682, 1682-83, 1684-85, 1685-86, 1689, 1689-90, 1690), Blackness and Bo’ness (1681-82), Edinburgh (1672-73, Inverness (1665-67, 1668-69, 1672-73, 1684-85, 1690), Kelso (1689-90), Kirkcaldy (Fife) (1672, 1673, 1680-81, 1681, 1681-1682, 1682-83, 1683-84, 1684-85, 1684-85, 1685-86, 1688-89, 1689-90), Leith (1671-72, 1681, 1682-83, 1683-84, 1684-85, 1684-85, 1685-86, 1688-89), Montrose (1672-73). The training material contains a decent variety of hands, styles and page layouts representative for the port books of the period.