Smuggling & Smugglers in Sussex

Note 83 — SMUGGLING IN SUSSEX. BY WILLIAM DURRANT COOPER, ESQ., F.S.A. Reprinted from Vol. X. of the “Sussex Archæological Collections.”

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The usual method was to go alongside, under the pretence of trading; they frequently mastered the crew, clapped them under the hatches, and then plundered, and afterwards scuttled the ship.—“Public Advertiser,” 5 Nov. 16, 1768.

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