The Role of Wigtownshire in Eighteenth Century Smuggling
Recent, Recent (Social), History
TDGNHAS Series III, 77 (2003), 181(1.68 MB)
Abstract
According to the Board of Customs in Edinburgh, 'very considerable' quantities of contraband goods were landed in Wigtownshire during the eighteenth century. Only 1.3% of Scotland's population lived here at the time so that the region could not provide cu