Illicit business

Comparison between customs accounts and private mercantile records reveals that, while Bristol merchants declared most of their trade, they failed to declare a large part of their export cargoes of grain and leather. This was due to the high cost of acquiring licences to export such ‘prohibited’ goods. Further analysis of merchants’ accounts reveals that the smuggling of these products was a carefully organized, widespread and highly profitable business, which constituted a major component of Bristol’s international trade during the period. It seems likely that this was also true of many other early modern English ports

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