Letter on smuggling operations involving the Isle of Man and illegal wool exports
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- Sources
- Name
- Letter on smuggling operations involving the Isle of Man and illegal wool exports
- Description
- A letter from Charles Lutwidge to unnamed authorities ("Your Honours") detailing smuggling operations centred on the Isle of Man. The writer describes how contraband goods (brandy, tea, wool) are transported between Great Britain, the Isle of Man, France, and Scotland via small vessels. The letter emphasizes the economic and moral damage caused by this illicit trade.
- Date
- 1 July 1764
- Related To
- Charles Lutwidge
- Type
- Financial Data
- Uncertain Readings
- Archive / Repository
- md:20260219_135927.md
- img:20260219_135927.jpg
- Collection
- The Last Years of the Lordship
- Type
- Administrative Correspondence
- Date Created
- 1764-07-01
- Creator
- Charles Lutwidge
- Audience
- Your Honours (unnamed authorities)
- Contributor
- Cha^s Lutwidge
- Provenance
- Text appears to be a fragment or excerpt from a longer document. Uses abbreviated contractions (ob^t, h^ble, Serv^t, Cha^s) typical of 18th-century correspondence.
- Language
- English