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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in readiness for supplying the royal navy. There are two Dry-docks, one of which is double, for repairing vessels; …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… been much altered. The Moat surrounds the site, but is now dry except for the N. arm. The remains of the Conduit Head, …
The Environs of London
… five surlongs and eighteen yards in length, contains two dry docks, two mast-ponds 52; a smith's shop, with several …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… measured 705 ha. 96 The parish boundary follows a dry valley and a ridge on the south-east, but no prominent …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… great benefit and importance, is frequently impeded in the summer by sands and shoals. By the statute 30th of Charles … to upwards of 400 men, women, and children, during the summer months, in the preparation of the straw, which is … pasture, and the remainder chiefly arable; the soil is a dry brown mould, resting on limestone. The neighbourhood …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… on her head and raines in that your petitioner cant lye dry in her bed and the parisheners are very sencible of her … an order that shee may have some poore habitation to lye dry in that shee might not perish and your poore petitioner …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… should have two carts straying in his park of Wyrkesop for dry wood, whatever they should find lying except green, and … the future could not as he ought, have two carts to bring dry wood every day to the monastery, &c. 26 There was a …