Chapter 12

Tenders, attacked,  hired for transport of pressed men,the health and comfort of pressed men on,their victualling,attempts to escape from and with,

Thames, press-gang on the, wherrymen exempted by levy of one in five,

Thetis, H.M.S.,

Thomson, Lieut,

Thurlow, Lord,

Ticket men. See Men in lieu,

Tobacco,

Trading classes the greatest sufferers from impressment, not without resentment, various trades gradually exempted,

Tramps. See Vagabonds,

Transports,

Travelling, cost of,

Trial and Life of Richard Parker,

Trim, William,

Trinity House,

Tritonbrig,

Triton, Indiaman,

Turning over of crews,

Tyne keelman exempt from impress by levy—the men supplied being obtained by them by bounties,

Uniontender,

Utrecht, H.M.S.,

Vagabonds handed over to the press-gang,

Vanguard, H.M.S.,

Vernon, Admiral,

Victualling in the press-room,

Virginia,

Wages due to sailors to date of impressment,

Walbeoff, Capt,

Ward, Ned,Wooden World Dissected,

Waterford, press-gang at,

Watermen's language,

Watson, Lieut,

Watts, John, punished with 170 lashes,

Weapons used against the press-gang,

Weir, Alexander,

Wellington, Duke of,

Whalers, some of crew of, exempt from impressment,

Whitby, the press-gang at,

White, John, pressed at Bristol ninety yards from his vessel,

Whitefoot, James, impressed at Bristol,

Whitworth, Charles, Envoy to Russia,

"Widows' men."

Williams, John,

Willing Travellersmuggler,

Wilson, John, shot by the press-gang on theBritannia,

Winchelsea, H.M.S.,

Winstanley, London butcher, served as pressed man 16 years,

Wolfarmed sloop,

Women and the Press-gang, See also under Press-gang, "The Press-gang and Women."

Wooden World Dissected. See Ward, Ned,

Wool, illegal export of,

Worth, Capt,

Worthing fishermen,

Wye trow-men exempted from impress by 10% levy,

Court of Exchequer rules the reverse,

Yarmouth Roads, the press-gang in,

"Yellow Admirals."

Yorke, Sol. Gen,

Young, Admiral, his torpedo,


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