Smuggling & Smugglers in Sussex

Excerpt: "In September, 1747, one John Diamond, otherwise Dymar, agreed with a number of smugglers to go over to the Island of Guernsey, to smuggle tea, where, having purchased a considerable quantity, on their return in a cutter, were taken by one Capt. Johnson, who carried the vessel and tea to the port of Poole, and lodged the tea in the Custom-house there. The smugglers being very much incensed at this fatal miscarriage of their purchase, resolved not to sit down contented with the loss; but