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EDYSTONE LIGHT-HOUSE

Volume 6 · 83 words · 1797 Edition

lying off Plymouth harbour, was first erected by the corporation of the Trinity-house in 1696; in consideration of which, the masters, &c. of English shipping agreed to pay one penny a ton outwards and inwards. It was demolished by the storm of 1703, and re-erected by act of parliament in the 4th of queen Anne, and the same duty on tonnage of ships granted for its support; which law was enforced in the 8th of June. It has been since destroyed and rebuilt.