Archive for ‘Scotland’

British Military to Quell Smuggling Along English and Scottish Coasts, 1717

[London, September 7, 1717] Upon a Complaint from the Officers of the Customs in several Parts of the Kingdom, that the Smugglers are now grown so very Numerous and Insolent, in Defiance of the Officers of the Customs, they ...

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Tragedy at a Scottish Public House, 1755

“London. The following melancholy Affair happened lately at Annan* in Scotland. A Party of Soldiers having gone to assist the Custom-house Officers in making a Seizure of some prohibited Goods that they had been informed were in that ...

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