Exports From England Historical Background Study on trade between France and England Survey statistics from the office of the prefecture…

“Le Pourtraict de la ville de Dieppe”, by François de Belleforest (1530-1583), 1575. Wood engraving.​

Letter from the Deputy Prefect to the Prefect dated June 19, 1811 ; title: ” enemy movement on the coast “​

King’s letter authorizing Captain Smith, English ship commander, to order under the French flag a vessel plying the slave trade, without receiving act of reception, recorded on March 17, 1787.

The end of the Hundred Years War placed Normandy away from foreign wars for several centuries. This does not preclude the province to participate in transactions, including shipping. Captain Charles Daniel, a native from Dieppe, who served many commandments in the Royal Navy, is a fine example of a naval officer.

Report of the Chamber of Commerce, in English.

It was not until the mid-nineteenth century that the practice of free trade between the two sides of the Channel really develops.

Dated 1757, this document appoints Robert Farwell as captain of the Dolphin, an unarmed trading ship with a capacity of 90 tons and bound for Newfoundland, Portugal or Spain.

The appointment was made in the name of the Lord High Admiral “of Great Britain and Ireland etc. and of all His Majesty’s plantations”.

View 1 : Plan of the Parish of Brighthemstone, 1792

130 x 82

(ESRO: AMS 4106)

View 2 : Map of the town of Brighton and its environs, 1850

by Ligott Smith for the regent King George IV

144 x 113

(ESRO : QDP 133)

Advertising poster issued by Chemins de fer de l’Etat et Southern Railway to promote the ferry service between Newhaven and Dieppe on Le Rouen.

Printed around 1920.

A Revenue cutter is a small lighty armed boat, used to enforce customs regulations and catch smugglers.

In this report, John Holker junior describes the goods smuggled and lists the French and foreign ports where they are landed, and accuses some Dieppe fishermen of being involved.​

Collier (1685-1760) was Solicitor for the Crown assisting in trials of
smugglers until 1733 when he was appointed Surveyor-General of the
Riding Officers of Kent.

The letter lists men suspected of piracy at Hastings, Rye, Lydd and Romney, a number of whom are French. They include Frances Maquery from Rye, a French merchant from Dieppe, who also appears elsewhere in the exhibition.

The Channel is one of the busiest seas in the world from the point of view of ship numbers, and covers an area of 75,000 km2.

It was in 1797 that the Englishman George Wood set up his business in Forges-les-Eaux. ​
He concentrated on the production of “fine earthenware”, made according to a technique developed in England in the 18th century, designed to look like porcelain.

Commercial shipping registers show the extent of sea trade on ships leaving Upper Normandy.​Some ships were shipwrecked before they reached their destination, as was the case of the Amiral which was lost off the English coast near Hastings on 16 January 1792.

This document is a sailor’s apprenticeship contract (1760). It is in the format of a mediaeval chirograph: these documents were drawn up in duplicate, one over the other, and cut through along a zig-zag line or indent so that the two parts could be matched together (this is why these contracts are also called indentures).

In this memorandum the Chamber of Commerce records its views on the navigation and trade treaty of 1786, having sent two representatives to England. It notes that, contrary to the situation in France, English corporations of merchants and manufacturers had been consulted and had managed to have some clauses that might be detrimental to their business deleted.