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Museum Ref No: MAR 364.13309423Smuggling in Hampshire and Dorset by Geoffrey Morley, published by Countryside Books, Newbury, 1983. ISBN 0 9053932 24 8. Pages 157-162 cover Custom House raid.
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Museum Ref No: MAR 364.13309423Custom House Raid by Hawkhurst Gang in Smuggling Days by K. Merle Chacksfield, published by Dorset Publishing, Milborne Port, 1966. ISBN 0 902129 56 2. Pages 102-107
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Extract from Salisbury Journal 12th October 1747 describing a raid on Poole Custom House.
The 'Company of persons' are the Hawkhurst Gang (KH)
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Extract from the Salisbury Journal 26th October 1747. A number of the gang of smugglers who broke into the Custom House at Poole have been captured at Dalton by a party of Dragoons.
(The 'gang of smugglers' are known as the Hawkhurst Gang- KH)
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Museum Ref No: PLA 942.337History of the Borough and County of the Town of Poole by H. P. Smith, Poole, J. Looker Ltd., vol. 1 1948. Pages 106-108.
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Museum Ref No: PLA 942.337History of the Borough and County of the Town of Poole by H. P. Smith, Poole, J. Looker Ltd., vol. 1 1948. Pages 180-181.
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Website giving full text of 'The Unconquered Knight' by Gutierre Diaz de Gamez, translated by Joan Evans. Pages 55 to 57 describe Don Pero Nino's raid on Poole
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Museum Ref No: MAR 942.337History of the Town and County of Poole by John Sydenham, Poole, Sydenham, 1839. Pages 91-94
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