Customs and Excise: Trade, Production, and Consumption in England 1640-1845

469 Pages·2003·1.982 MB·English

by  William J. Ashworth

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Customs and Excise: Trade, Production, and
Consumption in England 1640-1845
William J. Ashworth
Print publication date: 2003
Print ISBN-13: 9780199259212
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2010
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199259212.001.0001
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Dedication
Customs and Excise: Trade, Production, and
Consumption in England 1640-1845
William J. Ashworth
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Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2010
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199259212.001.0001
Dedication
(p.v) In Memory of
FREDA AND DEREK ASHWORTH
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Acknowledgements
Customs and Excise: Trade, Production, and
Consumption in England 1640-1845
William J. Ashworth
Print publication date: 2003
Print ISBN-13: 9780199259212
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2010
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199259212.001.0001
(p.vii) Acknowledgements
I STARTED THIS BOOK in May 1996 as a Research Fellow at the University of
Liverpool in what was then the Department of Economic and Social History. The
position was jointly funded by HM Customs and Excise and the National
Museum and Galleries on Merseyside. I am deeply grateful for their generosity
and support. I was also extremely fortunate in gaining a Senior Research
Fellowship at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (2001–2). This enabled
me to complete the book free from distraction in a wonderful office overlooking,
appropriately, the River Charles.
In the process of researching this book I was kindly aided by a number of
institutions. 1 thank the staff of the Public Record Office at Kew, the British
Library, Cambridge University Library, the Sydney Jones Library at the
University of Liverpool, the Widener Library at Harvard University, the Dewey
Library at MIT, HM Customs and Excise Records Management Services at
Salford, the Customs and Excise Museum at Liverpool, NMAM Maritime
Records, the Dorset County Records Office, and Manchester Central Library.
Ruth Parr, Anne Gelling, and Rowena Anketell at Oxford University Press have
made the whole experience of publishing a book both enjoyable and easy. I am
obliged to their patience, understanding, and good judgement. I also thank Johns
Hopkins Press and the journal Technology and Culture for allowing me to
reproduce a version of my published essay, ‘“Between the Trader and the
Public”: British Alcohol Standards and the Proof of Good Governance’, 42
(2001), 27–50, in Chapter 14.
Many friends and colleagues have encouraged and advised me over the course
of this book and beyond. I want to first and foremost thank my teacher Simon
Schaffer for sharing his enthusiasm, briliance, and support over the years. I owe
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him an immense and heartfelt gratitude, While I was a Fellow at the Dibner I
was extremely fortunate to have the company, friendship, and learning of
Leonard N. Rosenband. Our daily lunches and walks were a constant source of
stimulation and education that were vital in inspiring and enriching this book
(not to mention future planned projects). I was also exceptionally lucky in having
the companionship of Andre Wakefield who not only raised a number of
important suggestions and queries concerning this book, but introduced me to
the joy of ice fishing in Minnesota.
Very particular thanks go to Patrick K. O‘Brien, Martin Daunton, and Julian
Hoppit for their scholarly work and encouragement in informing this project. I
have benefited enormously from the camaraderie and feedback at various
conferences from a great number of people; in particular, Crosbie Smith, Boyd
(p.viii) Hilton, Iwan Moras, Pat Hudson, Andrew Warwick, Arne Hessunbruch,
Graeme Gooday, Brian Dolan, Timothy Alborn, John Staudmisser, Theodore
Porter, Menachem Fisch, Myles Jackson, Larry Stewart, M, Norton Wise, Robert
Brain, Graeme Milne, Jeff Hughes, and Robert Iliffe. A special thanks to Peter
Line-baugh, who at short notice kindly responded in detail to an impromptu
request to comment on an early draft of my Introduction.
Living with someone working on taxation must be trying for anyone, but it was
also during the course of writing this book that our two children, Oliver and
Harvey, were born, and I started a lectureship in the School of History at the
University of Liverpool Throughout Liza has been magnificent; her amazing
stamina, love, and patience made this book possible. 1 am also indebted to my
colleagues at Liverpool—both at the University and at the National Museums
and Galleries on Merseyside—for being so understanding and supportive; in
particular, Robert Lee, Mike Stammers, Steve Butler, Karen Bradbury, Anne
Maclaren, Eve Rosenhaft, Adrian Jarvis, Charles Esdaile, John Belchem and
Pauline Stafford.
W.J.A.
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Abbreviations
Customs and Excise: Trade, Production, and
Consumption in England 1640-1845
William J. Ashworth
Print publication date: 2003
Print ISBN-13: 9780199259212
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2010
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199259212.001.0001
(p.xi) Abbreviations
AH
Architectural History
AHR
American Historical Review
BCTHS
Bulletin of the Cleveland and Teeside Local History Society
BEM
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
BJHS
British Journal for the History of Science
BL
British Library
BRLCJ
British Review and London Critical Journal
BTR
British Tax Review
BSSLH
Bulletin of the Society for the Study of Labour History
CEMS
HM Customs and Excise Records Management Services, Saiford
GUI CH(H)
Cholmondley Houghton Papers, Cambridge University Library
DCRO
Dorset County Records Office
DNB
Dictionary of National Biography
ECL
Eighteenth Century Life
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Abbreviations
EBB
Explorations in Economic History
EG
Economic Geography
ECHR
Economic History Review
EHR
English Historical Review
FHR
French Historical Review
FHS
French Historical Studies
H
History
HCSP
House of Commons Sessional Papers, ed. S. Lambert, 147 vols.
(Delaware, 1975)
HJ
Historical Journal
HR
Historical Research
HW
History Workshop
IAR
Industrial Archaeology Review
IEP
International Economic Papers
JBS
Journal of British Studies
JEEH
Journal of European Economic History
JEH
Journal of Economic History
JHI
Journal of the History of Ideas
J1H
Journal of Interdisciplinary History
JMH
Journal of Modern History Journal of Political Economy
JSAHR
Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research
L
The Library
LJ
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Abbreviations
London Journal
MCL
Manchester Central Library
MM
Mariner’s Mirror
NMGM
National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside
(p.xii)
PA
Public Administration
PEMS
Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society
PER
Parliaments, Estates and Representation
PH
Parliamentary History
P&P
Past and Present
PP
Home of Commons Parliamentary Papers
PR
Political Register
P&P
Public Record Office
P&S
Politics and Society
PTRS
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
SH
Southern History
SOH
Social History
SSH
Social Science History
SSS
Social Studies of Science
TCLAS
Transactions of the Cheshire and Lancashire Antiquarian Society
THSLC
Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancaster and Cheshire
TLMAS
Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society
TRHS
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society
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Abbreviations
WCH
A Calendar of the Weymouth Custom House records compiled by B. R.
Leftwich, typed MS, n.d. Customs and Excise Museum, NMGM, Liver
pool
WMQ
William and Mary Quarterly
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Epigraph
Customs and Excise: Trade, Production, and
Consumption in England 1640-1845
William J. Ashworth
Print publication date: 2003
Print ISBN-13: 9780199259212
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2010
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199259212.001.0001
Epigraph
(p.xiii) There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than
that of draining money from the pockets of the people.
Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (1776)
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