Acknowledgements

Sources of general information.

The Country Life Book of Nautical Terms Under Sail

The British Seaman. 1200–1860 A Social Survey

Christopher Lloyd

Dress in 18th-Century England

Anne Buck

Jane Austen’s Town and Country Style

Susan Watkins.

Smuggling on the Yorkshire Coast

Jack Dykes

Library Services, H.M. Customs and Excise. New King’s Beam House, 22 Upper Ground, London, SE1 9PJ

My thanks to Patrick Howlett, Hessle, for loan of maps and information on Hessle.