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Scottish Arms Makers: A Biographical Dictionary of Makers of Firearms, Edged Weapons and Armour Working in Scotland from the 15th Century to 1870.

C. E. Whitelaw, spent thirty years searching the surviving Burgh and Guild records, both published and unpublished, as well as the local directories, histories, memoirs and account books, extracting the names of individual craftsmen together with details of their training and experience. He listed not only the gunmakers, armourers and swordsmiths, but also the founders and hiltmakers, the lorimers, bowyers and bucklers and such specialists as the gun-stockers and the makers of Steill bonnets, brigandines, halberds and worms for guns. The major cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow furnish the largest number of craftsmen and crafts, but Aberdeen, Dundee, Inverness, Perth and Stirling all add substantially to the total, and at least the names and occupations of a surprising number of craftsmen from small towns and villages have survived in the records.