" used by stern parent to part his daughter and her lover, a drunken cleric's revenge by means of, by pressing a sailor, causes his late bedfellow to be hanged as his murderer, and women, of women and sailors in general, lack of sentiment in gangsmen, women impressed by, women masquerading as men to go to sea, women in the gang, the hardship brought on women by the gang, fostered vice and bred paupers, women who released sailors from the press-gang, the devotion of Richard Parker's wife, In the clutch of, the press-room, what it was; strongly built and small as it might be, could hold any number, Bristol gaol and Gloucester Castle used as press-rooms, inadequate precautions for retaining pressed men on the road, regulations for rendezvous, victualling in the press-room, regulating or examining for fitness for service, fabricated ailments and defects, dispatching pressed men to the fleet, tenders hired for transport of pressed men, comfort and health of pressed men on tenders, the victualling of pressed men on tenders, prevention of escape, an attempt to escape-with the Tasker tender escapes from, The Union tender cut out from the Tyne by the pressed men, various excitements aboard a final examination, petitions, substitutes, How the gang went out, causes of withdrawal of press-gang, the increasingly bad quality of the product, the spirit of restlessness and mutiny engendered, the injury to trade, only continued so long by the apathy of the people, the cost of impressing, Press-Gang, or Love in Low Life, The, Press warrants, forged, Presting, the original term and its meaning, Prest money, Price, Capt, Prince George guardship at Portsmouth, Princess Augusta, a letter of marque, Princess Augusta tender, Princess Louisa, H.M.S, Privateers, loss of seamen by, pressing from, recapture of pressed crew of, Prize money, Profane abuse of crews by officers, Protections, for masters, mates, boatswains, and carpenters, worthless, if the holder were ashore, bound to be always carried, slightest error in description invalidated, were often disregarded, special, for men in lieu, for crews of convoys and privateers expired on arrival in home waters, lent, bought, and exchanged, American, Provisions in the Navy, Quarantine, Queensferry, the press-gang at, Quota men, "R" for "run" in ships' books to denote deserter, Raleigh, Sir Walter, Ramsgate, the press-gang at, Reading, the press-gang at, Registration of seamen, Regulating, i.e. examination of pressed-men for fitness, ailments and defects fabricated or assumed, Regulating captains, character of a, Repulse, H.M.S., Rendezvous, attacked, regulations of, Rescue of pressed men from the gang, Reunion, H.M.S., Rhode Island, Rice, Richard II, Richards, John, midshipman, Richardson, Lieut, Right of search, Roberts, Capt. John, Rochester, the press-gang at, Rodney, Admiral Lord, Roebuck, H.M.S., Romsey, the press-gang at, Routh, Capt, Royal Sovereign , H.M.S., Ruby gunship, Rudsdale, Lieut., Rum, Rupert , H.M.S., Russia, impressment in, Russian Navy, Ryde, the Lord of the Manor, claimed the privilege of private protections for his ferrymen to Portsmouth and Gosport, the press-gang at, Rye , H.M.S., Rye, the press-gang at, Sailor, the word disfavoured by Navy Board, a creature of contradictions, St. Ives, safe from the press-gang, St. Lawrence River, deserters in, St. Vincent, Earl of. — from The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore by J. R. (John Robert) Hutchinson
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