In January 1682, William Culliford, a devoted and skilled officer within the King's customs carrier, started a rare trip less than Treasury orders to enquire the integrity and potency of the customs institutions of southwest England and south Wales as a part of a force to maximise the Crown's source of revenue from customs tasks (on which it relied for far of its revenue). beginning at Bristol, Culliford ultimately accomplished this daunting job in Cornwall over years later within the spring of 1684. His record on all of the ports he inspected (the fundamental resource for this publication) published frequent smuggling and fraud within the context of a customs carrier either missing in potency and riddled with corruption. The ebook files the numerous frauds and wide-ranging abuses exposed and their facilitation through customs officials in simple terms too able to collude with smugglers, cheating retailers and seamen and to just accept bribes to disregard tax evasion. It describes, too, Culliford's review of the executive practices of every port inspected and his judgment at the degrees of probity and potency of person officials, detailing his strategies for procedural advancements and the therapy of the corrupt and incompetent and, by the way, of these suspected of political and non secular dissent. also, the ebook provides a physique of statistical facts at the customs profit really accrued at person ports within the 1670s and 1680s and surveys the level and nature of the maritime alternate of the ports Culliford tested. It therefore not just throws mild at the background of the customs provider, yet offers a unprecedented perception into the interactions of financial, social and political concerns within the later 17th century, and makes a useful contribution to the actual histories of the ports and maritime districts visited through this vigorous and tenacious investigator.