The King's Customs. An account of maritime revenue and contraband traffic in England, Scotland and Ireland, from the earliest times to the year 1800

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Early history of customs and their administration. Has sections: 'Domain of conjecture - the period of partial illumination, Edward I, Edward II'; 'The subsidy of wool, and of tunnage and poundage'; 'The periods of vigorous imposts and petty prohibitions'; 'The period of proclamations and ordinances'; 'The old subsidy and its earliest offshoots'; 'The Scots' contribution and the growth of smuggling'; 'The period of frantic restrictions and fearless smuggling'; 'The period of fiscal chaos and colonial disruption'; 'The great reformation in method and the subsequent lapses'; 'Customs Literati'