Yorkshire Almanac The Royal Navy seeks recruits among the seamen of Sculcoates, Cottingham and Little Weighton (ER)

28 November 1796: The Royal Navy seeks recruits among the seamen of Sculcoates, Cottingham and Little Weighton (ER)

James Duffield Harding (1798–1863), Fishermen’s Houses at Sculcoates near Hull, Yorkshire (Harding 1827).

Horace Baker Browne. 1912. The Story of the East Riding of Yorkshire. London: A. Brown and Sons. H.B. Browne appears to have been white-haired but alive in 1949 (see The Story of Whitby Museum), but I have found no trace thereafter. Get it:

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RECRUITING FOR THE NAVY.

WANTED.

For the parishes of Sculcoates, Cottingham, and Little Weighton, A few able-bodied SEAMEN or LANDMEN to serve in His Majesty’s Navy during the present War ONLY…. The Families and Friends of Volunteers will receive Monthly Pay, and the Volunteers themselves will have a bountiful supply of Cloathing, Beef, Grog, Flip, and Strong Beer, also a certainty of Prize Money, as the men entered for this service will be sent to capture the rich Spanish Galleons, and in consequence will return loaded with Dollars and Honour, to spend their Days in Peace and Plenty.

May the constitution of England endure for ever, and

the Parishioners of Sculcoates, Cottingham and

Little Weighton live to see it.

Hull, November 28th, 1796.

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I suspect Wardell’s real pleasure is in his footnote:

This person was found guilty and executed at York in 1696, for counterfeiting the current coin. The attic story of his dwelling-house in Briggate, was the place he used for this purpose, and was discovered in 1836, by some workmen engaged in repairing the premises. The apparatus used by him, together with a few silver coins were also found at the same time therein.

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