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Title: Annals of a Fishing Village. Drawn from the notes of "A Son
of the Marshes" i.e. Denham Jordan]. Edited by J. A. Owen. With
plates.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe
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Denham; 1891 1890]. viii. 289 p.; 8 . 012631.k.25.
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Title: On Surrey Hills. By a Son of the Marshes, etc. Denham
Jordan.] Edited by J. A. Owen.]Publisher: British Library,
Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national
library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest
research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known
languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound
recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its
collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial
additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating
back as far as 300 BC.The GENERAL HISTORICAL collection includes
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British Library Anonymous; Jordan, Denham; Owen, Jean Allan; 1891.
vi. 301 p.; 8 . 010358.f.28.
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have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
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PREFACE. SOME of our readers and critics have complained that the
localities amongst which A Son of the Marshes was brought up, and
where his observations in natural history were first made, are too
vaguely indicated in the books already published. To meet this
objection I have, in editing the present volume, added a few topo-
graphical details which will, I trust, serve to give more
definiteness to the scenes therein described. JEAN A. OWEN.
CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE I. RANGING THE DYKES . . . . . . . i II. OLD
GUNS AND THEIR OWNERS .... 23 III. OLD REEKS AND HIS LUGGER 45 IV.
UNDER STRESS OF CIRCUMSTANCE .... 54 V. SOME WATER STUDIES 72 VI.
NATURES RAIDERS 83 VII. A WATER RAIDER 105 VIII. IN SUSSEX 116 IX.
UPLAND FIELDS 150 X. SOME TRAITS OF WILD LIFE 166 XI. THE PAGEANTRY
OF AUTUMN 180 XII. COMMON LAND . 200 XIII. AT DAWN OF DAY 218 XIV.
VOICES OF THE NIGHT 232 XV. As THE SEASONS CHANGE 245 DRIFT FROM
LONGSHORE. CHAPTER I. RANGING THE DYKES. MiLTON-NEXT-SlTTiNGBOURNE,
the centre about which these Marshland incidents are grouped, has
played no mean part in the history of our country. It lies, says an
old writer, as it were, hid among the creeks, for it is almost out
of sight, as well by water as by land, and yet it is a large town,
as it is a considerable port for barges, and a capital fishery for
those oysters called Milton or Melton oysters, which are so
valuable. It is at the mouth of the Swale opposite the Island of
Sheppey, near where the waters of the Thames and the Medway meet.
At the beginning of this century Milton was little more than a long
straggling fishing village on the edge of the salt marshes,
although it still contained some buildings which spoke of former
prosperityand business activity. The hundred of Milton held its
Court leet which was said to have 1
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