Note 151 — REIGN OF WILLIAM III.: 1695–1702.

In April 1703, John Dunbabbine, an Englishman, who in his own country had for several years followed the trade of pin-making ‘to the satisfaction of all those with whom he had any dealing,’ was now inclined to set up a work at Aberdeen, which he thought would be ‘very much for the advantage of the kingdom [of Scotland] and all the inhabitants thereof.’ All he required previously was his work being endowed with the privileges and immunities of a manufactory; which the Privy Council readily granted.