[Picture: The Waterman, the Ticket Porter, and Fellowship Porter]
The privilege of working as a waterman on the river Thames, is only to be
obtained by servitude or birth-right; and freemen only can work as
porters in the city, for which they wear a ticket as a badge of
privilege, and on which their names are stamped and numbered; but the
privilege of bringing salt, fish, coals, fruit, and other goods on shore,
from ships, boats, or barges, belongs to the Company of Fellowship
Porters. All the firemen in London must be watermen or lightermen.