The Smugglers' City
Department
of History, University
of Bristol
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Sources
These pages contain a variety of sources and student research projects that the co-ordinator has put
on the site for the use of students taking the unit and other interested researchers. This includes links to items that have been published through the Bristol Respository of Scholarly Eprints (ROSE). To download sixteenth-century Bristol customs accounts and associated working papers, go to the project website for:
Ireland-Bristol Trade in the Sixteenth Century.
Copyright and Transcription Information
Childe of Bristow, c.1350-1500
Act to establish a 'Fellowship of Merchants', 1467
Salazar's account of Bristol's discovery of the Island of Brasil (pre 1476)
Robert Ricart's Chronicle of Bristol, 1480-1508
Will of John Foster, merchant of Bristol, 6 August 1492 (ROSE)
First Letters Patent granted by Henry VII to John Cabot , 5 March 1496
Lorenzo Pasqualigo to his brothers at Venice, 23 August 1497
News sent from London to the Duke of Milan, 24 August 1497
Soncino letter to Duke of Milan, 18 December 1497
The grant of a pension of £20 per year to John Cabot, 13 December 1497 (ROSE)
Warrant for the payment of John Cabot’s pension, 22 February 1498 (ROSE)
John Day letter to the Lord Grand Admiral, Winter 1497/8
Pedro de Ayala to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, 25 July, 1498
London Chronicles of John Cabot's voyage of 1498
Henry VII’s letter to John Morton concerning William Weston’s voyage to the new found land (ROSE)
John Esterfeld vs. William Weston of Bristol: Chancery petition transcript, c.1499
Act to establish a 'Company of Merchants', 1500
Extracts from the Patent granted by the Spanish Sovereigns to Alonso de Ojeda, 8 June 1501
Customs Account: The Matthew of Bristol, 1503/4
Prisage & Butlerage Account for Bristol, 1511
Survey of Bristol Ships, 16 January 1513
Will of Hugh Say, mercer of London, 10 December 1517 (ROSE)
A Dispute between a Merchant of Bordeaux and some Bristol Men, 1517
Robert Thorne the elder's Will, proved 6 July 1519
Petition from the Town of Bristol, c.1530
Act for preserving navigation of the River Avon, 1543
Petition against Candlemas Fair, c.1543
Letters Patent of the Merchant Venturers, 1552
Will of William Tyndall, merchant of Bristol, 13 September 1558 (ROSE)
William Tyndall Probate Inventory, 1559
Bristol Merchants Evading Customs at Chepstow, 8 August 1561
Licence for vessels to lade and unlade goods at Bristol between 4am and 8pm, 12 April 1563 (ROSE)
Bristol Merchants Landing Wine at Chepstow, 1564
Letter: Anthony Standbank, mayor of Bristol to Winchester, the Lord Treasurer,15 February 1565
Bridgwater Port Survey, 14 May 1565
Survey of smuggling in Bristol, 15 May 1565 (ROSE)
Survey of the Port of Bristol, 1565 (ROSE)
The Fust MS. / Maurice Toby's Chronicle of Bristol, 1565
Conformation of the Letters Patent of the Merchant Venturers, 1566
Act of Parliament: The Merchant Venturers, 1566
Exchequer Decree to turn the Port of Cardiff into a member port of Bristol, 18 June 1567 (ROSE)
Complaint of the Tuckers, 1568
Parliamentary debate: The Merchant Venturers, 1571
Act of Parliament: The Merchant Venturers, 1571
A Book of Articles to prevent or detect frauds in the Customs, 1572 (ROSE)
Report on smuggling in the West Country, 1577
Complaints of the Customer and Controller at Bristol, 1580
Establishment of the Port of Gloucester, 4 Oct 1580
Bristol’s petition against the establishment of the Port of Gloucester, 1582 (ROSE)
Letter: Burghley to Fanshawe, re. Port of Gloucester, 11 June 1582
Bristol Petition that Gloucester cease to be an Independent Port, 25 May, 1584
A Letter from Burghley Forbidding the Export of Wheat, 1584
A Petition from the Waiters in the Port of Bristol, c.1584
Exchequer depositions concerning Smuggling, 1585
That no Ordnance should be Exported except through certain Named Ports, c.1587
Prohibited Goods Exported to Spain from Bristol, 1587
Customs frauds in Kingroad and the River Severn, 1588
Petition from the Waiters of the Port of Bristol, c. 1590
Nicholas Thorne the younger's Will, proved 17 September 1591
The suit to obtain the position of customer inwards at Bristol for John Dowle, May 1593 (ROSE)
Hopkins v. Taylor, More Irregularities in the Customs, 1594
The suit to obtain the position of customer of Bridgwater for William Benger, 1596 (ROSE)
William Walton’s suit for the searchership of Bristol, July 1597(ROSE)
Petition from Bristol to Lord Burghley, 1597
Student Research Projects
Joseph Beveridge, 'An assessment of the political stance of Bristol merchants during the constitutional struggles of the late-1620s' (BA Dissertation, University of Bristol, 2011). Published by the Department as a joint-winner of the award for Best Undergraduate Dissertations, 2011.
Charlotte Britton, 'Entertaining the Queen: Queen Anne's royal progress to Bristol in 1613' (pdf). (BA Dissertation, University of Bristol, 2011). Published by the Department as a joint-winner of the award for Best Undergraduate Dissertations, 2011.
Oliver Dunn, 'The Petitions of Thomas Watkins against Customer John Dowle 1598 - 1600' (BA Thesis, University of Bristol, 2006)
Susan Flavin, 'The Development of Anglo-Irish trade in the sixteenth century' (MA Dissertation, University of Bristol, 2004)
Charlie Gent, 'The case of currants: The Levant Company monopoly as a stimulus for Bristol’s illicit trade 1590-1666' (Special Field Project, University of Bristol, 2009)
Alex Higgins, 'The Society of Merchant Venturers’ attempts to obtain a share in the licence to export Welsh butter in the early seventeenth century' (Special Field Project, University of Bristol, 2009)
Joe Inwood, 'How Did Anthony Standbank rise to prominence and become one of the leaders of Bristol’s community?' (BA Essay, University of Bristol, 2005)
Joe Inwood, 'The Chesters of Bristol: A Tudor Merchant Dynasty' (BA Thesis, University of Bristol, 2006)
William Jessop, 'Privateering in Elizabethan Bristol, A Case Study on John Hopkins' (MA Dissertation, University of Bristol, 2004)
Evan Jones, 'Bristol Shipping Industry in 16th Century' (PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1998)
George Mallet, 'The economics of the illicit wine trade in Elizabethan England' (Special Field Project, University of Bristol, 2008)
George Mallet, 'Early seventeenth century piracy and Bristol' (BA Dissertation, University of Bristol, 2009)
Annabel Peacock, 'The Men of Bristol and the Atlantic Discovery Voyages of the Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries (MA Dissertation, University of Bristol, 2007)
Catherine Pitt, 'The Wine Trade in Bristol in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (MA Dissertation, University of Bristol, 2006)
Martin Rorke, 'Scottish Overseas Trade, 1275/86-1597' (PhD, University of Edinburgh, 2001)
Duncan Taylor, 'The Overseas Trade of Mid-Sixteenth Century Bridgwater' (MA Dissertation, University of Bristol, 2006)
Franky Wardell, ' Queen Elizabeth I’s Progress to Bristol – an examination of expenses' (Special Field Project, University of Bristol, 2009)