Cornish Smugglers

The “Parliamentary Register” Vol. XVI was published in London in 1780 and contains an account of the most interesting speeches and motions made in the British parliament in that session

On page 292 there begins an account of the Offices and Employment’s existing in the Salt Duties on the 25^th of October 1705. The number of Officers employed with their respective Salaries, and also an account of the Number and names of the Officers with their Salaries as they stood on the 5^th of January 1779, distinguishing the time wen any increase in the number of such Officers or their Salaries was first made.

Whilst the list covers the whole of Great Briton I have once again restricted my disclosures to those officers based in Cornwall.

Port	Establishment on the 25^th Oct. 1705			Establishment on the 5^th of Jan. 1779		Date of increase of Establishment.
Falmouth	Officers Name	Sal.		Officers Name Richard Davis Allowed on account of increase in fishery	Sal££50. £24	May 9^th 1769	£24
	John Kitlow	£50

Port	Establishment on the 25^th Oct. 1705			Establishment on the 5^th of Jan. 1779		Date of increase of Establishment.
Falmouth	John Spurrier Zachary Langdon Charles Penderthy Philip Paskew		£25 £20 £20 £20	William Reale William Barnes Thomas Dewsloe Allowed on incidents John Whiraker	£25 £20 £20 £5 £20	Aug.18^th 1756	£5

Port	Establishment on the 25^th Oct. 1705	Establishment on the 5^th of Jan. 1779		Date of increase of Establishment.
Fowey		William Collier Allowed in incident Four boatmen Richard White John Chapman Henry Francis Jonathan Calf	£50 £5 £25 £20 £20 £20	Feb.19^th 1707 March 30^th 1736 Aug.28. 1713 Ditto Ditto Ditto	£50 £5 £25 £20 £20 £20

Port	Establishment on the 25^th Oct. 1705	Establishment on the 5^th of Jan. 1779		Date of increase of Establishment.
Mevagizey		Samuel Allcock For an officer W.m Croft ditto assisitant In incidents	£40 £4 £25 £5	Aug. 12^th 1725 June 8^th 1762 Nov. 27 1725 Aug.30^th 1769

Port	Establishment on the 25^th Oct. 1705		Establishment on the 5^th of Jan. 1779		Date of increase of Establishment.
Gweek	William Dodd	£40	Richard James For riding charges	£40 £10	Feb.25^th 1715	£10

Port	Establishment on the 25^th Oct. 1705		Establishment on the 5^th of Jan. 1779		Date of increase of Establishment.
Looe	Christopher Conyers	£50	James Dyer Thomas Soady Boatman	£50 £20	Oct 8 1714	£20

Port	Establishment on the 25^th Oct. 1705		Establishment on the 5^th of Jan. 1779		Date of increase of Establishment.
Padstow	John Croker	£50	Edward Day	£25

Port	Establishment on the 25^th Oct. 1705		Establishment on the 5^th of Jan. 1779		Date of increase of Establishment.
Penzance	Edward Andrews	£50	Richard Treeve	£50

Port	Establishment on the 25^th Oct. 1705		Establishment on the 5^th of Jan. 1779		Date of increase of Establishment.
Penzance (Boatmen)	Henry Rendall James Sainders Mathew Skinner Brian Tonkin	£10 £10 £10 £10	George Mathews John Foster William Martyn John Grosse Jun.	£25 £20 £20 £20	March 20^th 1732 Ditto Ditto Ditto	£15 £10 £10 £10

Port	Establishment on the 25^th Oct. 1705	Establishment on the 5^th of Jan. 1779		Date of increase of Establishment.
St Ives		James Faggotter Jacob Phillips	£50 £20	July 24^th 1723 Nov. 20^th 1722	£50 £20

Port	Establishment on the 25^th Oct. 1705		Establishment on the 5^th of Jan. 1779		Date of increase of Establishment.
Plymouth	Arthur Keay	£60	Henry Tolcher Allowed in Incident	£50 £4

Port	Establishment on the 25^th Oct. 1705	Establishment on the 5^th of Jan. 1779		Date of increase of Establishment.
Plymouth (Boatmen)		William Fabyan James Tappar Samuel Tapley John Langworthy	£20 £20 £20 £20	Sept. 4^th 1713 Ditto Ditto Ditto	£20 £20 £20 £20

Searchers and Boatmen

Port	Establishment on the 25^th Oct. 1705		Establishment on the 5^th of Jan. 1779		Date of increase of Establishment.
St Mawes	Officers Name	Sal.	Officers Name John Roberts A further allowance	Sal £25 £5	Oct. 27th 1737 May, 23, 1776	£25 £5

Padstow	John Croker	£5
Hayle	John Stone	£5

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Searchers and Boatmen

George Pritchard. Copyright © 2000/ 01/ 02/ 03/ 04/ 05/ 06 . All rights reserved. Revised: January 03, 2006 .

George Pritchard. Copyright © 2000/ 01/ 02/ 03/ 04/ 05/ 06 . All rights reserved.
Revised: January 03, 2006 .