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[14] For a very minute account of this strife, and for the merits of the case, see Gillingwater’s History in loco.[16] Suckling has asserted that this was a piece of Cromwell’s “usual duplicity.” The reader is referred to “Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches” edited by Thomas Carlyle, for a splendid refutation of the ungenerous calumny.[26] Names of the persons who composed the crew of the “Frances Ann” Life-boat:—Lieut. T. S. Carter, R.N.; H. B. Disney, James Stebbens, James Titlow, pilots; Thomas Aldiss, Henry Smith, Thomas Butcher, William Hook, William Gurney, James Taylor, John Browne, William Francis, Robert Chaston, Edmund Boyce, Thomas Humsley, Nathaniel Killwick, James Robinson, and William Butcher.[27] The persons who composed the crew of the Life-boat were, Henry Beverley Disney, Henry May, David Burwood, James Cullingham, pilots; Cornelius Ferrett, William Ayers, Samuel Spurden, John Spurden, Robert Watson, James Websdale, Samuel Butcher, Batholomew Allerton, James Farrer, Peter Smith, George Burwood, Matthew Colman, Edward Ellis, and James Stebbens.[29] This poor man was a teetotaller, and although left on the wreck some hours longer than the rest, when brought on shore was found to be less exhausted than they.[48] Edinburgh Review, Jan. 1840.[50] The interest of £1000 is left to keep this tomb in repair; the surplus is given to the poor.[56] This is the orthodox time; we believe the merchants now perform the whole process in a much shorter period.[62] Craik’s Sketches of the History of Learning and Literature in England.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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