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- Title
Southampton’s sixteenth-century illicit trade: An examination of the 1565 Port Survey.
- Authors
Parker, Leanna T
- Abstract
The sixteenth-century English smuggling trade has, in recent years, become a topic of increasing interest to historians of trade and maritime culture. Investigation into the inner workings of England’s ports and their relations with the wider world has helped to create a fuller image of sixteenth-century culture and politics. This research note examines the unpublished and understudied ‘Survey of the Port of Southampton’, commissioned by Elizabeth I in 1565 in an effort to deter illicit trading in English ports. Through study of this underused resource, this research note is designed to enhance understanding of smuggling culture in the sixteenth century, and to demonstrate the effect that regional, national and international factors could have on the types of illicit trade undertaken by smugglers.
- Subjects
SOUTHAMPTON (England); UNITED Kingdom; ENGLAND; SMUGGLING; SMUGGLERS; MERCHANTS; HARBORS; BRITISH history sources; TUDOR Period, Great Britain, 1485-1603; HISTORY; SIXTEENTH century; COMMERCE
- Publication
International Journal of Maritime History, 2015, Vol 27, Issue 2, p268
- ISSN
0843-8714
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0843871415578392