In message <002e01c4386e$2a00a5a0$0300a8c0@jamd>, Richard Akhurst <richard.akhurst@btinternet.com> writes >(Apologies if this has appeared twice.) > >I'm trying to find out about the tobacco trade into England (especially >London) in c1625. I am deciphering Court of the Exchequer documents about >a Ralphe Akehurst who was accused of n There are some useful extracts collected together in 'Economic Documents of the Seventeenth Century' which would fill in the background for you. > >My next step is to get a working knowledge of the tobacco trade in order to >put the >documents into context, see the book, though if you have a problem getting it from the Library, I will dig around (not this minute, since it would take a while.) -- Eve McLaughlin Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society