Sleeves Full of Raisins
Tom Johnson: Mobs of Wreckers, 13 April 2023
Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea
by David Cressy.
Oxford, 313 pp., £30, September 2022,978 0 19 286339 3 Show More
by David Cressy.
Oxford, 313 pp., £30, September 2022,
“... a firm sense of their traditional rights. People knew that the governing class would take the very best things from a wreck, but that still left a share for the common coaster. A mouthful of raisins, with only a little gravel in your teeth.Legally speaking, the Golden Grape was not a true ‘wreck’. Medieval statutes, still in use in the 17th ... ”