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The Kentish Hoy "Good Intent." 



line of submerged brandy kegs, at the very time that a 

 Revenue vessel was trying to mid them. He dropped 

 them in hot haste and sailed away, for the penalty, if his 

 action had been observed, would have been a severe one. 

 Brandv kegs were frequently sunk in this way until the 

 coast was clear, and the receivers, under cover of darkness, 

 able to recover them. 



In those days English guineas fetched a rare price in 

 France, twenty-eight shillings or their equivalent not being 

 unusual. To satisfy this foreign demand for a sound 

 commodity, some English sailors, belonging to a vessel 

 sailing from Faversham, proposed to take three hundred 

 guineas across the channel. Unfortunately for these 

 speculators the ship was detained at Faversham under 

 suspicion, and learning this in time, the sailors deposited 

 their gold in a pot of tar. The vessel lay at Faversham 

 for twelve months and was finally condemned to be 



