-------Subject: RE: Origins: Aboard a Man O' War
From: Gareth - PM
Date: 05 Mar 04 - 06:34 PM
Hmmm ! Its late at night, and I can not recall the evidence, but there is a thought in mind that possibly the #"Press Gang" was used as a means of disposing of unwanted lovers or husbands - For a consideration of course !
Gareth--------
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Reminder, as this point does not seem to have been developed above: the related On Board A 98 tells of a young man originally pressed to sea when his own parents themselves become fed up with his wastrel ways and summon the Press Gang ~~ "My parents saw it would not do, I soon would spend their store, So they resolved that I should go on board a man-o-war ~~ The press gang they surrounded me, Their warrant they did show..."

~Michael~