Ligan Flotsam and Jetsam

Waifs found in the sea or on the shore.
'Flotsam' are those goods that are found floating on the sea after a wreck, 'Jetson' or Jetsam, are goods that are thrown overboard in a storm to lighten the vessel and 'Ligan' are goods that are thrown overboard, but tied to a cork or buoy in order that they can be found again.

Flotsam comes from the Anglo-Saxon word 'flotan' and the Latin 'flotare' meaning to float.
Jetson comes from the French word 'jeter' and the Latin jacere meaning to throw out.

Guy, like the princes and inhabitants of various parts of Gaul, exercised the right of wreck in all its fullness. Their barbarous and unchristian practice on this head is strongly and justly denounced by the panegyrist of William. The shipwrecked man, instead of being looked on as an object of humanity and Christian charity, was looked on as a wretch forsaken of God and man, who became the lawful spoil of the lord into whose hands he was thrown. Indeed the words used might almost be taken as meaning that they were not even satisfied with those unfortunates whom accident threw in their way. Fraud of some kind, false lights or the like, would seem to have been used to entrap the unwary. And woeful indeed was the doom of the unlucky wretch who fell into their hands. Imprisonment was his usual fate, and to imprisonment torture was often added. The higher and more illustrious the victim, the harder was his doom, as from such captives more might be wrung in the way of ransom than could be gained from meaner men. Such was now the fate which threatened the foremost man of England.-- freeman