on one Horse near Rowland Castle
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Galley and Chater falling off their Horse at Woodash
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Chater Chained in ye Turff House at Old Mills's
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Chater hanging at the Well in Lady Holt Park, the Bloody Villains Standing by
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The Bloody Smugglers flinging down Stones after they had flung his Dead Body into the Well
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H.M. Cutter "Wickham," commanded by Captain John Fullarton, R.N.
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H.M. Cutter "Wickham"
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"Dow sent his Mate and ten Men on board her"
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"Came charging down … striking her on the Quarter"
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"A great Crowd of infuriated People came down to the Beach"
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"The 'Flora' with the 'Fisgard,' 'Wasso,' and 'Nymph'"
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"The 'Caroline' continued her Course and proceeded to London"
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How the Deal Boatmen used to Smuggle Tea Ashore
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"The 'Badger' was Hoisting up the Galley in the Rigging"
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"Fire and be Damned"
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The Sandwich Device
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The Sloop "Lucy" Showing Concealments
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Cask for Smuggling Cider
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The Smack "Tam O'Shanter" showing Method of Concealment
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Flat-bottomed Boat found off Selsey
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Plan of the Schooner "Good Intent" showing Method of Smuggling Casks
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The Schooner "Spartan"
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Deck Plan and Longitudinal Plan of the "Lord Rivers"
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"The Cruiser's Guns had shot away the Mizzen-Mast"
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"The 'Admiral Hood' was heaving Tubs Overboard"
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"Getting a Firm Grip, pushed him … into the Water"
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"Let's … have him over the Cliff"
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"Under Cover of Darkness took on Board … Forty Bales of Silk"
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"Another Shot was Fired"
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Methods employed by Smugglers for Anchoring Tubs thrown Overboard
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The "Rival's" Ingenious Device
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"Taken Completely by Surprise"
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King's Cutters & Smugglers
Table of Contents
CHAPTER IToC
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
Outside pure Naval history it would be difficult to find any period so full of incident and contest as that which is covered by the exploits of the English Preventive Service in their efforts to deal with the notorious and dangerous bands of smugglers which at one time were a terrible menace to the trade and welfare of our nation.
As we shall see from the following pages, their activities covered many decades, and indeed smuggling is not even to-day dead nor ever will be so long as there are regulations which human ingenuity can occasionally outwit. But the grand, adventurous epoch of the smugglers covers little more than a century and a half, beginning about the year 1700 and ending about 1855 or 1860. Nevertheless, within that space of time there are crowded in so much adventure, so many exciting escapes, so many fierce encounters, such clever moves and counter-moves: there are so many thousands of people concerned in the events, so many craft employed, and so much money expended that the story of the smugglers possesses a right to be ranked second only to those larger battles between two or more nations.
Everyone has, even nowadays, a sneaking regard for the smugglers of that bygone age, an instinct that is based partly on a curious human failing and partly on a keen admiration for men of dash and daring. There is a sympathy, somehow, with a class of men who succeeded not once but hundreds of times in setting the law at defiance; who, in
