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A History of the County of Durham
… to the mayor and burgesses of Hartlepool, but reserved 'wrecks of all kinds,' 259 and in 1802 arbitrators determined that 'all wrecks of the sea cast on shore in any part of the manor of … belong to G. Pocock (the lord of the manor), and all wrecks of the sea floating within the liberties of the port …
Magna Britannia
… duties for anchorage, bushelage, &c., and was entitled to wrecks, &c. It was proved at the same time, that the fishery …