Their first thought is how to resist.

Why! I myself, if I hear a man say it is a fine day, catch myself trying to find out that it is no such thing.

It is so in thought; it is so in word; it is so in deed.' So you may imagine the press-gang had no easy time of it on the Yorkshire coast.

In other places they inspired fear, but here rage and hatred.

The Lord Mayor of York was warned on 20th January, 1777, by an anonymous letter, that 'if those men were not sent from the city on or before the following Tuesday, his lordship's own dwelling, and the Mansion-house also, should be burned to the ground.' Perhaps something of the ill-feeling that prevailed on the subject was owing to the fact which I have noticed in other places similarly situated.