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Smuggling and the Hawkhurst Gang
1. From this source (source A) we can learn why people smuggled at this time (18th century) because in source A it wrote ‘The common people of England in general fancy there is nothing in the crime of smuggling … the poor feel they have a right to shun paying any duty [tax]on their goods’. Smugglers thought that smuggling wasn’t a crime; in fact they thought they were providing a service (1747 – John Taylor, the keeper of New Gate Prison). The quote shows the important parts of evidence in the source why people smuggled at that time.
2. I think people studying this source should be careful because John Briggs (the writer of source B) is very bias against the smugglers. Here is reasons to support my answer ; ‘smugglers had in many areas assumed enormous proportions’ also, ‘over three million pounds of tea were imported illegally every year’ so this is likely not to be real, but put into his own words. It must also be acknowledged that this source of information written by John Briggs was written in 1996. This is likely to be second-hand information because the event happened in the 18th century and that was two hundred years ago there is no evidence to support where this information came from thus must be acted with caution.
3. From this source (source C) we can learn what people thought about smugglers here is some evidence to support my answer. It would appear the people generally had mixed views about the Smugglers: ‘Some people, indeed, regarded smugglers as rough criminals-and some of them, like the Hawkhurst gang, were just that. The Hawkhurst gang were not honest people and resorted to the most violent methods, terrorising the areas they were in. But most people had a sneaky sympathy and admiration for them’. Although most people recognised smuggling was wrong and a capital crime, many people were poor, they may have lost their jobs and needed work, and people did not want to pay higher prices for goods. This
1. From this source (source A) we can learn why people smuggled at this time (18th century) because in source A it wrote ‘The common people of England in general fancy there is nothing in the crime of smuggling … the poor feel they have a right to shun paying any duty [tax]on their goods’. Smugglers thought that smuggling wasn’t a crime; in fact they thought they were providing a service (1747 – John Taylor, the keeper of New Gate Prison). The quote shows the important parts of evidence in the source why people smuggled at that time.
2. I think people studying this source should be careful because John Briggs (the writer of source B) is very bias against the smugglers. Here is reasons to support my answer ; ‘smugglers had in many areas assumed enormous proportions’ also, ‘over three million pounds of tea were imported illegally every year’ so this is likely not to be real, but put into his own words. It must also be acknowledged that this source of information written by John Briggs was written in 1996. This is likely to be second-hand information because the event happened in the 18th century and that was two hundred years ago there is no evidence to support where this information came from thus must be acted with caution.
3. From this source (source C) we can learn what people thought about smugglers here is some evidence to support my answer. It would appear the people generally had mixed views about the Smugglers: ‘Some people, indeed, regarded smugglers as rough criminals-and some of them, like the Hawkhurst gang, were just that. The Hawkhurst gang were not honest people and resorted to the most violent methods, terrorising the areas they were in. But most people had a sneaky sympathy and admiration for them’. Although most people recognised smuggling was wrong and a capital crime, many people were poor, they may have lost their jobs and needed work, and people did not want to pay higher prices for goods. This
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