From the BBC Legacies website again (part 1):
"A number of sources suggest that, on a stormy night in the winter of 1314, a vessel chartered by merchants of the French King's Duchy of Aquitaine
to take a large consignment of white wine to England crashed ashore on Atherfield Ledge - close to St Catherine's Hill.

"In true 'Whisky Galore' style, the surviving sailors sold 174 casks of wine to the islanders.

"The merchants were so enraged that they pursued the receivers of the stolen wine, though they deemed the sailors to be unworthy of action.
One island landowner, Walter de Godeton, was prosecuted, found guilty of receiving 53 casks and ordered to pay 227 and a half marks."