The Smugglers' City
Department of Historical Studies, University of Bristol

E.T. Jones, 'The Bristol Shipping Industry in the Sixteenth Century' (PhD, Edinburgh 1998).

This is a downloadable version of my doctoral thesis. Pagination is as in the origninal. All files are in pdf format, the largest being 1.8 MB long.
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• Title page, contents & map
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: The economics of shipping in mid-sixteenth century Bristol
• Chapter 2: Bristol's international shipping market, 1539-1546
• Chapter 3: The commercial strategies of Bristol's shipowners, 1539-43
• Chapter 4: Bristol shipowners at war: 1543-1546
• Conclusion
• Appendix 1: The tonnage of goods shipped in the continental Trade
• Appendix 2: John Smyth's imports and exports, 1539 - September 1546
• Appendix 3: The value of trade carried by port, in tons - 1541/2, 1542/3, 1545/6
• Appendix 4: The destination of ships listed in the customs accounts
• Appendix 5: Bristol's trade - 1541/2, 1542/3, 1545/6
• Appendix 6: The histories of the Bristol ships
• Bibliograph