waltham blacks - group of poachers who took part in a poaching raid where they took a bishops deer and stole shipment of kings wine.
group was arrested and hanged
smuggling gang
Hawkhurt gang - smuggled along south coast and smuggled tea,rum etc. a year later leader was executed
how many smugglers by mid 1700
around 20,000
when would smugglers do their crime
at night , so they could hide their cargos
highway robbery
crime to authority as it was a disruption to trade
highway robbery
rose because of demobilised soliders who were returning from foreign wars and were jobless so resorted to highway robbery to sell things and earn money
