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. 1897 Excerpt: ... Newcastle Merchant Adventurers, Surtees Society, vol. xciii. p. 27. in 1535; and Hector Charlton of the Bower, "one of the greatest thieves of those parts" (1536). The Earl of Surrey hanged, in September 1523, Jamie Dodd of the Burnmouth in Tarset, "the mooste named thief of all others." No less barbarous than the ...
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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. 1897 Excerpt: ... Newcastle Merchant Adventurers, Surtees Society, vol. xciii. p. 27. in 1535; and Hector Charlton of the Bower, "one of the greatest thieves of those parts" (1536). The Earl of Surrey hanged, in September 1523, Jamie Dodd of the Burnmouth in Tarset, "the mooste named thief of all others." No less barbarous than the people of these valleys were the fishermen of our coast. Wreckers. On Holy Island they were wreckers to a man. Father Blakhal, who was stormstayed on the island in 1643, and witnessed a fight between the minister of the parish and a gentleman of the neighbourhood for a case of castor hats with gold hat-bands thrown up by the sea, learnt from an authoritative source the real character of the inhabitants, which was also the character of their forbears. "The Governor tould us," he says, "how the common people ther do pray for shippes which they sie in danger. They al sit downe upon their knees and hold up their handes and say very devotely, 'Lord, send her to us; God send her to us.' You," said he, "seeing them upon their knees and their hands joyned, do think that they are praying for your sauvetie, but their myndes are far from that. They pray not God to sauve you, or send you to the port, but to send you to them by shipwrack, that they make gette the spoil of her. And to shew you that this is their meaning," said he, "if the ship come wel to porte, or eschew naufrage, they gette up in anger, crying, 'the devil stick her, she is away from us."' On the 6th of April 1528, Frederick I. of Denmark wrote to Henry VIII. desiring that restitution should be made to John Olaf of Anslo, in Norway, of whatever had been recovered from a vessel wrecked at Bamburgh on St Magdalen's Day. Again, on Novem...
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