The sea trader, his friends and enemies . r IMPRESSMENT 283 pride as being so very different from the liberty of thesubject prevaiHng in our own free country. There wassmall risk that the Act of Queen Anne would not be en-forced. The application was left in the hands of the verypersons who were most interested in seeing that it wasapplied. The justices, mayors, aldermen, portreeves, etc.,whose consent was required to the compulsory apprenticingof poor parish boys and burdensome apprentices, were all,directly or indirectly, interested in the shipping businessall round the coast. A supply of che
The sea trader, his friends and enemies . r IMPRESSMENT 283 pride as being so very different from the liberty of thesubject prevaiHng in our own free country. There wassmall risk that the Act of Queen Anne would not be en-forced. The application was left in the hands of the verypersons who were most interested in seeing that it wasapplied. The justices, mayors, aldermen, portreeves, etc.,whose consent was required to the compulsory apprenticingof poor parish boys and burdensome apprentices, were all,directly or indirectly, interested in the shipping businessall round the coast. A supply of cheap labour was greatlyto their advantage, and they were not at all likely to putobstacles in the way either of the Guardians of the Poor, orof masters and mistresses, heirs and executors. All appren-tices were not originally poor parish boys. The sea offereda natural career to the sons of the coast population. Theyfollowed it from generation to generation—the son perhapsgoing to sea as the apprentice of his father, and lookingforward to
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