Welsh Journals

Nonetheless, this unexpected source does provide interesting new infor- mation for the study of the Pembrokeshire coastal trade in the period before its major expansion as the output of the coalfield grew. It also throws intriguing light on what was happening in the waters off the county during the French Wars: in the superb view of islands and head- lands seen from St David's Head or Cam Llidi, what might the vessel on the horizon have been? Maybe it was not an innocent transporter of Cheshire salt. more likely, perhaps, a privateer from Brest or Quimper. Notes 1. Barbara J. George, Pembrokeshire Sea-Trading before 1900 (first published in Field Studies, vol.2 no.l, 1964, 1-39, and subsequently published by the Field Studies Council as a separate offprint with the same pagination). 2. Lancashire Record Office [hereafter LRO] QSP 766/7 (7 July 1695). 3. Brian Howells notes that piracy and the activities of enemy vessels during wartime were major problems for the trade of the county in the 16th century. He also points to the co-operation between local men and the pirates and, indeed, their participation in piracy: B. Howells (ed.), Pembrokeshire County History Vol All: Early modem Pembrokeshire 1536-1815 (Haverfordwest, 1987), 91-92. 4. LRO QSP 819/31 (10 October 1698). 5. LRO QSP 888/25 (18 January 1702/3). 6. Barbara George, Pembrokeshire Sea-Trading, 25. 7. LRO QSP 952/12 (20 January 1706/7). 8. LRO QSP 844/33 (undated). 9. LRO QSP 792/20 (21 January 1696/7).