Stephens The Seventeenth-Century Customs Service Surveyed 9781138110342

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Автор: Stephens
Название: The Seventeenth-Century Customs Service Surveyed
ISBN: 9781138110342
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
Классификация:

История Британии и Ирландии

История раннего нового времени: с 1450/1500 гг. по 1700 г.

ISBN-10: 1138110345
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 256
Вес: 0.47 кг.
Дата издания: 24.05.2017
Язык: English
Размер: 234 x 156
Читательская аудитория: Tertiary education (us: college)
Ключевые слова: Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century
Основная тема: Early Modern History 1500-1750
Подзаголовок: William culliford`s investigation of the western ports, 1682-84
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Описание: In January 1682, William Culliford, a loyal and experienced officer in the Kings customs service, began an extraordinary journey under Treasury orders to investigate the integrity and efficiency of the customs establishments of southwest England and south Wales as part of a drive to maximize the Crowns income from customs duties (on which it relied for much of its revenue). Starting at Bristol, Culliford eventually completed this daunting task in Cornwall over two years later in the spring of 1684. His report on each of the ports he inspected (the primary source for this book) revealed widespread smuggling and fraud in the context of a customs service both lacking in efficiency and riddled with corruption. The book documents the varied frauds and wide-ranging abuses uncovered and their facilitation by customs officers only too ready to collude with smugglers, dishonest merchants and seamen and to accept bribes to ignore tax evasion. It describes, too, Cullifords assessment of the administrative practices of each port inspected and his judgment on the levels of probity and efficiency of individual officers, detailing his recommendations for procedural improvements and the treatment of the corrupt and incompetent and, incidentally, of those suspected of political and religious dissent. Additionally, the book presents a body of statistical data on the customs revenue actually collected at individual ports in the 1670s and 1680s and surveys the extent and nature of the maritime trade of the ports Culliford examined. It thus not only throws light on the history of the customs service, but provides a rare insight into the interactions of economic, social and political issues in the later seventeenth century, and makes a valuable contribution to the particular histories of the ports and maritime districts visited by this energetic and tenacious investigator.

The Seventeenth-Century Customs Service Surveyed, Stephens