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Port Leonis station

Also called Port Leonis · British station at Port Leonis · the bonded magazines · the station

Bonded magazines under mixed British and Lyonnais management - 'a foreign wall with British powder behind it' - standing by the Compacts of Saint Corin, with British naval presence, chapel protection and protected mooring rights inside the Blanchefleur harbour apparatus.

A British establishment inside the Blanchefleur harbour apparatus where naval presence, chapel protection, bonded magazines and protected mooring stand by compact rather than sovereignty; the magazines are under mixed British and Lyonnais management.

Named with it

  • Anne Marr · permanent clerk

Ties

At the table

One of the six Near-Coast harbours that will take a Kentish hull in distress: a British-speaking clerk is on the quay at all hours. The senior naval officer changes with the station; the permanent clerk matters more. The bond covers goods and the wall covers the magazines; neither covers a person. The labour quarter, burial ground and chapel lie outside the wall, and proposals to bring the burial ground inside have twice been dropped. A British-speaking clerk is on the quay at any hour, making it the fifth port on the safe list.