This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ... unshipped 150 gallons brandy. Baker, a mariner of Colchester, who had unshipped 400 gallons brandy. Compton, a mariner of Hull, who had unshipped 250 gallons brandy. Ombler, a mariner of Hull, who had unshipped 150 gallons brandy. Burleigh, captain of the Thunderbolt, who had unshipped 3,500 pounds tea. Bell, a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ... unshipped 150 gallons brandy. Baker, a mariner of Colchester, who had unshipped 400 gallons brandy. Compton, a mariner of Hull, who had unshipped 250 gallons brandy. Ombler, a mariner of Hull, who had unshipped 150 gallons brandy. Burleigh, captain of the Thunderbolt, who had unshipped 3,500 pounds tea. Bell, a mariner, who had unshipped 2,000 pounds tea. Robinson, a mariner, who had unshipped 500 pounds tea. The Solicitor's statement was interesting. He mentioned the grounds upon which smuggling vessels were liable to forfeiture. 'Carrying brandy and being below the legal tonnage; carrying tea from a land where such tea is not grown.' Thus Burleigh's, Rossthorne's, and 'Robinson's sloops were liable to seizure--when found. The officers who might seize them should prosecute the sloops to condemnation in the Exchequer. If not prepared to do so, they must relinquish claim on the profits, and the Crown should prosecute. Hubbard's sloop was held not seizable, on a curious point. Since the date of the transaction quoted in the information she had been seized elsewhere for a more recent offence, and the Board had released her and accepted a sum of money from Hubbard in composition, he entering into bond to sin no more. Therefore his vessel was held not seizablei yet he was liable to prosecution. (The matter seems hard to understand, but thus said the lawyer.) Soon after Garrett informed of one Patrick, keeper of the Spurn Head lighthouse, for unshipping 1,000 pounds tea. He also implicated the keeper of 'The Ferry in Lincolnshire opposite Holden Dyke in Yorkshire, ' for 2,100 pounds tea. Then he asked again for ten guineas, promising that if he were given twenty he would implicate 'two men of fortune and estate, ' who had lately run i,6oo pounds tea. All the above...
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