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Devon Beach (Free Pampers & BMWs) (OT)
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:45:16 +0000, Sacha
wrote: big snip However, the recent looting of the beach was not wrecking. It was, by the traditional use of the word in these parts. You may also call it looting if you will but that's not what it would be called down here. I've just checked Martin's reference, and apparently Sir Cloudesley Shovel was killed by a woman for his emerald ring. It must have been what you read. The story goes that when his body was found, his ring was missing. The woman is said to have confessed on her death-bed, many years later that she 'squeezed the life out of him' before taking the ring. See for example http://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/ADeadlyCurse.htm I hadn't come across it before. If it happened once, it probably happened many times. But I still maintain there is no documentary evidence to justify the claim that ships were deliberately lured onto rocks, or that wreckers by your definition, existed. -- Chris E-mail: christopher[dot]hogg[at]virgin[dot]net |
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