Smuggling

Calendar of Patent Rolls

Museum Ref No: CalPatRollsHenryVI5pp104
Order for customs to be paid by two ships caught attempting to smuggle goods out of Poole. 7th Oct. 1447. With thanks to the Calendar of Patent Rolls project of Professor G. R. Boynton and the University of Iowa. J. Hopkin.
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Chacksfield, "Smuggling Days"

Museum Ref No: MAR 364.13309423
"Smuggling Days" by K. Merle Chacksfield, published by Dorset Publishing, Milborne Port, 1966. ISBN 0 902129 56 2. Pages 91-96.
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Culliford Report

Museum Ref No: MAR 364.13309423
Pages 9-10-11-12-13 of Dorset Smugglers by Roger Guttridge, published by Dorset Publishing Co.,Sherborne, 1984. ISBN 0902129 53 8, detailed description of smuggling activities in Poole 1682 with names.
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Culliford Report 1681-83

Museum Ref No: MAR 364.13309423
Dorset Smugglers by Roger Guttridge, published by Dorset Publishing Co.,Sherborne, 1984. ISBN 0902129 53 8. Pages 10-11
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Dorset Smugglers

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Dorset Smugglers by Roger Guttridge, published by Dorset Publishing Co.,Sherborne, 1984. Illus. ISBN 0902129 53 8
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Farquarson-Coe, A., Hants and Dorsets Smugglers

Museum Ref No: MAR 364.13309423
Hants & Dorset's Smugglers by A. Farquarson-Coe, published by James Pike, St Ives, 1975. ISBN 0 85932 159 2. Pages 7-9
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Gulliver, Smugglers' Britain

Museum Ref No: MAR 364.133
Smugglers' Britain by G. Bernard Wood, published by Cassell & Co. Ltd, London 1966. Chapter Twenty-Three - Gulliver and Lilliput.
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Poole: The Devil's Pool

Museum Ref No: MAR 364.13309423
Smuggling in Hampshire and Dorset by Geoffrey Morley, published by Countryside Books, Newbury, 1983. Illus. ISBN 0 9053932 24 8. Chapter 10 'Poole: the Devil's Pool'.
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Preventative service

Museum Ref No: MAR 364.13309423
Baccy, Rum and Tea from Poole: an archive teaching unit on local smuggling compiled by A.J. Miller, published by Henry Harbin School, Poole, 1979. Illus. Pages 7-12 and 21-25
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Smuggled Goods Seized, 1739

Transcription of extract from Salisbury Journal 11th September 1739 reads: "Pool. September 1st. Yesterday was seized and brought to the warehouse by Mr Timothy, supervisor of his Majesty's Customs in this port, and Mr Stagg, residing officer, assisted by 4 of the tidesmen, 28 anchors of Brandy, sunk about 3 leagues from the shore in a place where the smugglers declared the Devil himself could not find it."
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