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Folios 224-225: James Nash, Regulating Officer, Leith. He printed bills about smuggling...
Catalogue reference: ADM 1/2231/80
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- 1805 Apr 13
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Folios 224-225: James Nash, Regulating Officer, Leith. He printed bills about smuggling by the fishermen as ordered on 16 April 1805 stating that anyone involved would be impressed.
Folios 226-227: enclosure with folios 224-225. Letter dated 10 April 1805 by Morris West, Customs House, Edinburgh to James Nash. He is sending letters from the Controller of Anstruther.
Folios 228-229: enclosure with folios 224-225. Letter dated 29 January 1805 by George Forrester and Andrew Black, Customs House, Anstruther. They assure Nash that there is no smuggling by fishermen into St Andrews of the Firth of Forth but there is at [Aughberthy] and East [Wire] havens and off Red Head as informed by Peter Adam of the Young Eagle who saw 15 boats loaded with gin and other provisions. They do not know the names and owners of the boats but they hope to find them out.
Folios 230-231: enclosure with folios 224-225. Letter dated 15 Fenruary 1805 by George Forrester and Andrew Black, Customs House, Anstruther. 1Three smuggling boats seized by Robert Boyach, Tideman, St Andrews had their names erased. The men aboard pursued the Tidemen for an hour with boathooks to Boarhills and hid part of the tackle. These boats are employed in winter to smuggle gin.
Folios 234-235: enclosure with folios 224-225. Letter dated 25 February 1805 by George Forrester and Andrew Black, Customs House, Anstruther. Robert Boyach tells them that the men aboard the boats with the names obliterated were James Spink and James Hutton and they are the owners from Anstruther.
Folio 235A: enclosure with folios 224-225. Printed poster warning that any fisherman or any assistant caught smuggling will be impressed into the Navy.
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