Gilson, Charles, 1878-1943
Extract
A SEAFARING man, who had come from Ipswich by the London coach and walked to Dedham from Stratford St. Mary, had openly boasted in the tap-room of the Sun Inn that he knew every inlet on the North Sea coast between Mersey Island and the port of Hull. At this, both Master Anthony Packe, then in his fifteenth year, and John Constable, two years the other’s senior, were prodigiously impressed, then and there putting him down for a smuggler, which, as a matter of fact, he was.
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