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Custom house accounts book for wharfage payments, 1729 – 1730.
Wharfage was a duty payable on all goods imported and exported. Goods outwards (exports) are listed simply as goods . Imports include wine, tobacco, sugar, cotton, ginger, ivory (elephants’ teeth), molasses and aloes. Each barrel or bale was subject to a tax.

The Society of Merchant Venturers is a Bristol-based organisation, which was formed in 1552 as an elite body of merchants involved in overseas trade. The Society still exists today.

Date: 1729 - 1730

Copyright: Copyright The Society of Merchant Venturers