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| Bridport, Dorset - by Steve Chapple [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons |
"Stabbed with a Byrdport dagger.
That is, hanged. The best if not the most hemp (for the quantity of ground) growing about Byrdport, a market town in this county. And hence it is that there is an ancient statue (though now disused and neglected) that the cable ropes for the navy-royal were to be made thereabout."
Ray 1768
Map - Bridport
[The proverb is well known enough today to be used in the Wikipedia entry for Bridport.]
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