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AWM.738.024
17-24 Aug 1738:22 (973)
London. May 4. . . On Sunday last, Mr. Forster, surveyor
general of [ ] River, seized a considerable amount of tea
at Woolwich, hid under some hoop-petticoats. The owner of
those goods could be no experience'd smugglers, as is plain
by their choice of so improper a place for concealment, the
custom house officers being generally remarkable for having
a natural itch to rummage under the petticoat---for, some
time since, a Custom-house officer being in the pit in the
play-house, went to put his hand up one of the orange
wenches petticoats, but the girl knew him, and cry'd out,
How now, Mr. Tide-Water, there is nothing there but what has
been fairly enter'd.
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