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A History of the County of Somerset
… employed, by 1311 described instead as a carter and drovers. 12 Between 1274 and 1335, according to surviving …
A History of the County of Oxford
… labourers usually included a ploughman and one or two drovers, and additional labour was hired at harvest time to …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… 1822, 32 and by 1872 there was a second public house, the Drovers' Inn. 33 Both remained in 1973. A village institute …
Old and New London
… lines of oxen, three or four deep. Countrymen, butchers, drovers, hawkers, boys, thieves, idlers, and vagabonds of … were mingled together in a dense mass. The whistling of drovers, the barking of dogs, the bellowing and plunging of … bleating of sheep, squeaking of pigs, the shouts of the drovers, and often, the shrieks of some unfortunate female …
Survey of London
… land used as a cow lair or layer, that is a place for drovers to overnight cattle (Ill. 97). Further along towards …
Survey of London
… the passage from town to country. It was the route for drovers and traders coming from the north through Islington …
Records relating to the Barony of Kendale
… Shap, Penrith and Appleby, very much used by travellers, drovers and others having occasion frequently to pass and …