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A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… into consideration, the locks are few. Regular trading-boats are established, which pass weekly between Brecknock …
A New History of London
… Cranes with great naval state, attended by forty long boats, armed with small pieces of ordnance, the Thames being covered with boats and barges: while the London trained bands marched by … The sheriffs, and the sea captains who had commanded the boats were called into the house, where they were thanked for …
A New History of London
… Poorer persons took refuge in hoys, smacks, and fishing boats, but these took the infection; others went up the river in boats, lodging by night in tents made of their fails, on …
A New History of London
… with their masts, yards, rigging, carved work, and boats, all torn and beat to pieces 3. If the height of the …
A New History of London
… the night with fearful suspence in the fields, or lay in boats on the river; the roads were so thronged with the …
A New History of London
… the opposite shore, excepting what could be carried on by boats: the inhabitants of Southwark were much distressed by … happened remains still unknown. The lord-mayor licensed 40 boats extraordinary to work on the three succeeding Sundays, as ferry boats, whose stations were advertised in the public papers; …
A New History of London
… leave given for persons to go out of the kingdom in the packet boats, without taking passes from the secretary's office 27. …