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court when the police arrested
sixteen-year-old Edward
Vinten who, along with two
other boys, had been seen ‘in
the river near the Ship
Tavern, preventing several
guests from being seated on
the lawn’. The Ship was one
of several celebrated
waterside hotels by the
Thames (and now the site of
the Cutty Sark) known for its
‘public dinners’ and
particularly its whitebait.