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Origins of Aids to Navigation
Seamarks
Ecclesiastical lights
Order out of Chaos
Brotherhoods, Fraternities and Guilds
Trinity Houses
Trinity House at Leith
Trinity House of Newcastle
Light Dues
Mariner's Trust of Lord Crewe
Wales and the Merchant Venturers
The Forgotten Irish Sailors
Royal Charter from Henry VIII
Beacons, buoys and ballastage
Speculation and Favouritism
The First Master of the Trinity House of Deptford Strond
Constitution of the Trinity House of Deptford Strond
Wars Interfere
Early lighthouse Laws and levies
Speculation and Conflict of Rights
Conflict of interest
Smugglers and wreckers
Royal Favourites
Cromwell and Pepys
Pilot Licensing
Patronage
Affairs in Ireland and Scotland
The Ballast Board in Ireland
Slow Growth in Scotland
Commissioners of Irish Lights
Commissioners of Northern Lights
Private ownership and slow progress on Isle of Man
The costly end to private lighthouse ownership
Skerries - The last private lighthouse