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<< There was a monkey from a shipwreck that was hanged in Sunderland in the
1790's for being a Frenchman. >>
It was Hartlepool actually.
And its slightly more canny than it would appear. The law on marine salvage
at the time considered a vessel abandoned only if there were no living things
aboard. As a result it was common to leave a ship's cat, or in this case
monkey, aboard when abandoning ship. The good folks of Hartlepool found the
monkey on-board a ship-wreck, it was tried and convicted and then they helped
themselves.
Mind you the amount of p***-taking since I bet they've regretted it.
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