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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… and unparall'd cruelty they committed on the Governor's wife, having first defil'd her, as they did to several … fellow-sufferers or eye-witnesses. Signed, Peter Dyer. P.S.The relation of the misfortune of the Governor's wife of … the bay haveing such good anchorage, without side is a ditch of water 40ft. broad and 8ft. deep. (g) A fort I had …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… lower Courts have been kept very exactly, only St. Michael's, by reason of the smal pox rageing in the Bridge Town was … Dominico continue very quiet under H.M. protection. H.M.S. Burlington and Hector are now a-cruising off those … he makes a complaint of. Capts. Legge and Norburry, H.M.S. Weymouth and Larke, have been so insolent in their …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… drafts of Commissions and Instructions for the Governor of S. Carolina, with amendments proposed by Attorney and … 236. Order of Lords Justices in Council. New Seal for S. Carolina to be prepared. Set out, A.P.C. II. p. 779. … there, and a fort or redoubt of earth be thrown up, well ditch'd, freez'd and pallissaded, till a more durable may be …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… our reasons for so doing etc. The alterations in Col. Hart's Instructions are conformable to those of Sir N. Lawes and … or shipping of this Kingdom, pursuant to your Majesty's directions in that behalf; and after the words, deferring … faced with stone and mounted with 50 guns, but has neither ditch or outworks; The other 3 forts have only palisadoes. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… dated the 3rd June, 1734. "On Thursday last, at St. Thomas's, arrived a large ship for settling Sta. Cruz, one Motte is … full of men to reduce their rebellious negroes at St. John's, which they effected etc. Signed, Ri. Coope. Copy. 1 p. [ … To landward on two sides 'tis an old ruinous rampart and ditch, the other two sides are to seaward and are well fac'd …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… acknowledging receipt on 29th of last month of HM's warrant for granting letters of marque against the … the undertaking. But I hope the early intelligence of HM's resolutions, while unexpected by the Spaniards, will give … keep it together and surrounded with a small shallow dry ditch about six feet deep and is situated on the side of a …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… subsequently held on lease a part of Sir Nicholas Bayley's moiety, and by his unremitting labours realized a large … at considerable loss: to use a phrase of Mr. Williams's, "the mines were honey-combed." Owing to the poverty of the … are banks of sods about four feet and a half high, with a ditch on each side. Dry stone walls are not uncommonly used …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… 090009), bivallate by reason of a feeble outer bank and ditch, its banks treecovered, unexcavated, encloses 11 acres on the plain S.E. of the village, about 310 ft. above O.D. The perimeter … of 4 ft. The outer ditch can be traced only along the S. half of the S.W. side, where it is 6 in. deep and 12 ft. …
A Survey of London
… were but of that earth which was cast out of the trench or ditch wherewith they were enuironed. But afterward, being …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the City of Salisbury
… 13th-century: St. Nicholas, (26) 54b. 18th-century: Frowd's, (33) 58b; General Infirmary, (22), 52b; Hayter's, (30) 58a; Trinity, (27) 56b. 19th-century: Blechynden's, … Margaret, 1812, tablet, (4) 35a. Blakebrigge, across Town Ditch near Raie d'Or Inn, (227) 111b. Blecher, Thomas, 1405, …