Illicit business: accounting for smuggling in mid-sixteenth-century Bristol · Revestment 1765

Name: Illicit business: accounting for smuggling in mid-sixteenth-century Bristol
Description: A peer-reviewed economic history article examining smuggling in 1530s–1540s Bristol through merchant account books and customs records. Jones demonstrates that smugglers were regular merchants who recorded illicit transactions alongside legitimate trade in standard accounts, and uses record linkage to quantify smuggling in leather and grain exports. The study illustrates how high tariffs incentivised evasion and provides methodology applicable to other early modern smuggling analysis.
Date: 2001
Place: Spain; Edinburgh; Ireland; London
Type: Financial Data
Type: Academic Paper
Date Created: 2001
Identifier: PRO E122 199/3, 21/10, 199/4, 21/15, 21/12
Language: English