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The Ledger Book of Vale Royal Abbey
… boat for ever at the ford of Acton, with a sufficient ferryman, so that all travellers on foot should have a free …
Historical Collections of Private Passages of State
… Harvest, 1644. G. C. of Aston in the County of Hereford, Ferryman, aged 50 years, or hereabouts, sworn and examined, …
The Environs of London
… of Edward I. are some entries of money paid to the ferryman here for conveying the king and royal family to …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, 1601-3
… and that no man had seen them. Some two months after, one Ferryman, came to my lady, and told her that Daniell had been … Essex, though he called himself his man; and subsequently Ferryman brought Bales to my lady, with a declaration in … proceedings, which he subscribed in the presence of Ferryman and this deponent. [1 page.] [June.] 125. John Dodd …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, 1601-3
… fit for her purpose, and subscribed by myself, Peter Ferryman, of London, and Mr. Lyle, her secretary. The …
Rural Parishes: Harpsden
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… Oxfordshire to the Berkshire bank. A house built for the ferryman in the late 1830s replaced an earlier shelter, but …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Hodskinson surv. 1778, f. 21. Inf. from Mrs. Dyson. The ferryman's cottage, since demolished, is illus. at T. …
Old and New London
… the place where now the bridge is builded, at length the ferryman and his wife deceasing, left the same ferry to their … a bridge builded with stone." The story of the miserly old ferryman, Audrey, Mary's fatherhow he counterfeited death in … has been supposed by some persons to be that of the old "ferryman" above spoken of. Grose has inserted a …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… with the ferry opposite Hampton Church. The office of ferryman was looked upon as a lucrative appointment, though …
A History of the County of Stafford
… there possibly stands on the site of the cottage which the ferryman was licensed to build in 1596. The nearby brick …