PAGE INTRODUCTORY 1 CHAPTER I THE “OWLERS” OF ROMNEY MARSH, AND THE ANCIENT EXPORT 12 SMUGGLING OF WOOL CHAPTER II GROWTH OF TEA AND TOBACCO SMUGGLING IN THE EIGHTEENTH 24 CENTURY—REPRESSIVE LAWS A FAILURE CHAPTER III TERRORISING BANDS OF SMUGGLERS—THE HAWKHURST GANG—ORGANISED 39 ATTACK ON GOUDHURST—“THE SMUGGLERS’ SONG” CHAPTER IV THE “MURDERS BY SMUGGLERS” IN HAMPSHIRE 47 CHAPTER V THE “MURDERS BY SMUGGLERS” _continued_—TRIAL AND EXECUTION 60 OF THE MURDERERS—FURTHER CRIMES BY THE HAWKHURST GANG CHAPTER VI OUTRAGE AT HASTINGS BY THE RUXLEY GANG—BATTLE ON THE 78 WHITSTABLE-CANTERBURY ROAD—CHURCH-TOWERS AS SMUGGLERS’ CELLARS—THE DRUMMER OF HERSTMONCEUX—EPITAPH AT TANDRIDGE—DEPLORABLE AFFAIR AT HASTINGS—THE INCIDENT OF “THE FOUR BROTHERS” CHAPTER VII FATAL AFFRAYS AND DARING ENCOUNTERS AT RYE, DYMCHURCH, 94 EASTBOURNE, BO-PEEP, AND FAIRLIGHT—THE SMUGGLERS’ ROUTE FROM SHOREHAM AND WORTHING INTO SURREY—THE MILLER’S TOMB—LANGSTON HARBOUR—BEDHAMPTON MILL CHAPTER VIII EAST COAST SMUGGLING—OUTRAGE AT BECCLES—A COLCHESTER 111 RAID—CANVEY ISLAND—BRADWELL QUAY—THE EAST ANGLIAN “CART GAPS”—A BLAKENEY STORY—TRAGICAL EPITAPH AT HUSTANTON—THE PEDDAR’S WAY CHAPTER IX THE DORSET AND DEVON COASTS—EPITAPHS AT KINSON AND WYKE—THE 119 “WILTSHIRE MOON-RAKERS”—EPITAPH AT BRANSCOMBE—THE WARREN AND “MOUNT PLEASANT” INN CHAPTER X CORNWALL IN SMUGGLING STORY—CRUEL COPPINGER—HAWKER’S 129 SKETCH—THE FOWEY SMUGGLERS—TOM POTTER, OF POLPERRO—THE DEVILS OF TALLAND—SMUGGLERS’ EPITAPHS—CAVE AT WENDRON—ST. IVES CHAPTER XI TESTIMONY TO THE QUALITIES OF THE SEAFARING SMUGGLERS—ADAM 151 SMITH ON SMUGGLING—A CLERICAL COUNTERBLAST—BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF SMUGGLERS—ROBERT JOHNSON, HARRY PAULET—WILLIAM GIBSON, A CONVERTED SMUGGLER CHAPTER XII THE CARTER FAMILY, OF PRUSSIA COVE 165 CHAPTER XIII JACK RATTENBURY 183 CHAPTER XIV THE WHISKY SMUGGLERS 201 CHAPTER XV SOME SMUGGLERS’ TRICKS AND EVASIONS—MODERN 228 TOBACCO-SMUGGLING—SILKS AND LACE—A DOG DETECTIVE—LEGHORN HATS—FOREIGN WATCHES CHAPTER XVI COAST BLOCKADE—THE PREVENTIVE WATER-GUARD AND THE 239