[273] Serjeant Runnington, chairman of the Brighton Bench of Magistrates.
[313] Contiguous was a headstone, whereon was the epitaph:—
She in affliction bore a son,
The milk forsook her breast,
Her legs they mortified and run,
But hope she’s now at rest.
[315] If the ships should discontinue to run on the beach, and go into Shoreham Harbour or Newhaven, the Breakwater may be dispensed with, which will save £3,000.
[325a] The sale is by “Dutch Auction,”—doubtless introduced by the Flemings,—the salesman offering his several lots at whatever price he chooses, reducing it till a buyer says “have ’em,” when the name of the purchaser, and the price, are entered in the salesman’s book, and the fish are immediately transferred, but the payment is made after the business of selling is over. No sales are allowed to take place before six o’clock in the morning, when the market is opened by the ringing of a bell.
[325b] In “Yarrell’s History of British Fishes,” mention is made that in May, 1807, the first Brighton boat-load of mackarel sold at Billingsgate for forty guineas per hundred—7s. each, reckoning six score to the hundred; the highest price ever known in that market.
[325c] The Lord of the Manor of Brighthelmston, by his reeve, is entitled to the claim of the six finest mackarel from each boat, on its landing. A few years since some of the fishermen disputed this right, but the Magistrates, on the appeal of the reeve, Mr James Henry Mills, acknowledged and enforced the right.
[337] London: Printed for Fielding and Walker, Paternoster Row; E, Widgett, Brighthelmston; and W. Lee, Printer, Lewes, 1779.
[353] Two volumes, folio, London, 1747.
[364] Lady Selina Shirley, born 1717, married to Theophilus Earl of Huntingdon, 3rd June, 1738, and died in 1799, aged 82.