‘The Prime Minister must know about this,’ he thought to himself, and waited impatiently until it was safe to crawl back through the bushes towards the wood.
Another thing he had learnt was that Johnson and Farlow were running two boats, one from France, one from Larkswell. He guessed that the one from France was manned by Englishmen who had reason for keeping out of their own country.
Men who were being hunted for crimes, or escaped convicts, were the type of material Johnson would find easy to recruit. Their other boat would be rowed by Larkswell men.
He had also learnt that it was Roscoff from which Johnson was operating.
When in 1767 restrictions were imposed by Whitehall on Guernsey, the small and insignificant hamlet of Roscoff on the Brittany coast became overnight an important
