Crossword-Solution: BRIGHTLINGSEA 13 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 20

Sometimes they would take a boat at the bridge and drop down the stream for miles, and once or twice had even gone down to Bricklesey [Footnote: Now Brightlingsea.] at the mouth of the river.

And you, Bill, if you save anybody and decide to bring 'em into Brightlingsea, send up a signal-rocket as soon as you think we can see it over the land, and I'll have hot water and blankets all ready for the poor souls against they come ashore." "Ay, ay, mother; I will," replied old Bill.

The women once safe, the men made short work of it; and in little over two hours twenty-five souls--the survivors of a company of passengers and crew numbering in all forty-two--were safely transferred to the _Seamew_, which, slipping her cable, at once bore away with her precious freight for Brightlingsea.

Bob's departure from Brightlingsea was regarded by his numerous friends in the village quite in the light of an event; and when the morning came, and with it the market-cart which was to convey him and his belongings, together with old Bill, to Colchester, where they were to take train to London, nearly all the fishermen in the place, to say nothing of their wives and little ones, turned out to say farewell.

Sir Richard has, however, done what he could to console the poor old man by purchasing for him a pretty little cottage and garden in the most pleasant part of Brightlingsea, supplementing the gift with an allowance of one hundred and fifty pounds a year for the remainder of his life.