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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 21:27:29 -0600 Reply-To: H-Net and ASLH Legal History Discussion list <H-LAW@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net and ASLH Legal History Discussion list <H-LAW@UICVM.BITNET> From: Chris Waldrep <cfcrw@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> Subject: smuggl
From: "DAVID WARRINGTON (617) 496-2115" <WARRINGT@HULAW1.HARVARD.EDU>
Though I can't think of any legal histories that examine this very interesting topic, it occurs to me that Scott's novels about eighteenth-century Scotland are full of references to smuggling and smugglers. _Redgauntlet_ comes to mind as an especially interesting example of this obsession. The character of Thomas Trumbull, the smuggler with whom the young lawyer Alan Fairford gets entangled, and his whole system of operations are painstakingly delineated; there's also the connection Scott draws between smugglers and Jacobites. Novels may not be exactly what you're looking for, but Scott (and the critical work on Scott) may be a useful point of departure, particularly since Scott was a Clerk of the Court of Session and well-versed in legal matters himself.
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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 12:27:54 -0600 Reply-To: H-Net and ASLH Legal History Discussion list <H-LAW@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net and ASLH Legal History Discussion list <H-LAW@UICVM.BITNET> From: Chris Waldrep <cfcrw@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> Subject: smuggling
From: Michael A Bellesiles <mbelles@emory.edu>
On that once honorable trade of smuggling, the best recent piece is Cal Winslow's article on the Sussex smuggling trade in Douglas Hay, et al., Albion's Fatal Tree. See also Mui, "Smuggling and the British Tea Trade," in AHR 74 (1968); Brewer and Styles, eds., An Ungovernable People. Good luck. Michael B.
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Date: Sun, 26 Feb 1995 17:40:06 -0600 Reply-To: H-Net and ASLH Legal History Discussion list <H-LAW@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net and ASLH Legal History Discussion list <H-LAW@UICVM.BITNET> From: Chris Waldrep <cfcrw@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> Subject: Smuggling
From: Dave Postles <pot@leicester.ac.uk>
For Bennett Graff
Some general sources on Scottish smuggling, although some of them are not that substantial, include:
Frances Wilkins, _Strathclyde's Smuggling Story_ (1992);
France Wilkins, _The Smuggling Story of Two Firths (Montrose to Dunbar)_
(1993);
Frances Wilkins, _Dumfries and Galloway's Smuggling Story_ (1993).
Wilkins has also edited Scottish Customs and Excise Records (from 1707).
See also John A Thomson, _The Smuggling Coast: the customs port of Dumfries_ (1989).
Duncan Forbes, _Some Consideration of the Present State of Scotland_ (1744) has something to say about smuggling, but this might be too early for your purposes.
Elizabeth Ewan
Scottish Studies, History Dept.
University of Guelph
Guelph, Ont N1G 2W1
From: Dave Postles <pot@leicester.ac.uk>
Dear All,
For anyone interested in smuggling in England, see Paul Monod's
insightful, "Dangerous Merchandise: Smuggling, Jacobitism and Commercial
Culture in Southeast England 1690-1760", JBS, xxix (1990) 150-82.
Daniel Szechi
Auburn University
szechda@mail.auburn.edu
From: SCHWEITZ@UCIS.VILL.EDU
See Jacob Price, France and the Chesapeake: A History of the French Tobacco Monopoly, 1674-1791 (1973) and Arthur Middleton, Tobacco Coast: A Maritime History of the Chesapeake Bay (1953) for good descriptions of the Scots merchants' roles not only as participants in, but as primary organizers of, the lucrative tobacco smuggling trade between the Chesapeake and the Continent (tobacco was required by law to be unloaded and reloaded in London before proceeding to the Continent; all re-exported tobacco from London was subject to a tax; the Scots managed to completely bypass London with virtual impunity.) The inability of London to prevent rampant Scots smuggling reveals the large gap that existed between the ability to PASS official mercantile regulations, and to ENFORCE them.