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The Seventeenth-Century Customs Service Surveyed - Couverture souple

Stephens, William B.

 
9781138110342: The Seventeenth-Century Customs Service Surveyed
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1138110345 ISBN 13 : 9781138110342
Editeur : Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

Between January 1682 and the spring of 1684 William Culliford, Surveyor of the Customs, completed an extraordinary investigation into the integrity and efficiency of the customs establishments of southwest England and south Wales â" as part of a drive to maximize the Crown's income from customs duties (on which it relied for much of its revenue). His report on each of the ports he inspected, described and analyzed here, revealed widespread smuggling and fraud and a customs service both lacking in efficiency and riddled with corruption. The book also surveys the extent and nature of the maritime trade of the ports visited by this tenacious investigator, in the context of a wealth of statistical data on the customs revenue actually collected at all the main English and Welsh ports in the 1670s and 1680s.

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À propos de l'auteur

Over a career as Deputy General Editor of the Victoria County Histories, as Reader in the University of Leeds and as Hon. Research Fellow at University College London, Dr Stephens has published widely in the fields of economic and social history and in English and US local history.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1138110345
ISBN 13 
9781138110342
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
254
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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