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The Press-Gang (1815)

  • Blind Wrestler Dick Simmons
  • Date: June 12, 1815
  • Source: Westcountry Garland
  • Type: Rhyme
  • Tags: Blind Wrestler Dick Simmons

Sixty years ago this curious West-country ditty was sung not only from the Tamar to the Land’s End, but from Barnstaple Bay to the Rame Head. It describes, in rough and ready rhyme, the experiences of a country yokel who was carried off by a press-gang from a wrestling match on Maker Heights, near Plymouth. […]

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