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The Environs of London
… small river Brent, which rises in the parish of Hendon, and here falls into the Thames. It is a market town, lying in the hundred of Elthorne, and situated upon the great Western road, at the distance of … relating to this calamity: "April 26, 1682, paid the watermen in bread, beer, and brandy, that brought their boats …
Analytical index to the series of records known as the Remembrancia
… informing him that the Great Bridge at Startford-the-Bow 1 and causeway leading from the same to Charles Bridge, next … of Essex, was in such decay for want of repairing in time, and by reason of great inundations, that persons and … of the City of Westminster, the Master and Wardens of the Watermen's Company, and the Farmers of the Ferry at Lambeth …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… probably means 'woodland clearing of the fort guardian', and much of Broseley remained wooded in the Middle Ages. 12 … 87 vessels and formed the largest community of Severn watermen between Welshpool and Gloucester. Two main types of … navigable season gradually shortened. In 1862 many of the bargemen's houses were demolished when the Severn Valley …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… in the vill; it included 16 of the 24 ploughlands, and had 8 of the 10 servi. Its demesne had four ploughteams, … century the Tiptofts demesne had covered c. 200 a., 51 and that of Dullinghams 180 a. The 1,080 a. of freehold … master waterman c. 1815-34 at North Street, 36 where other watermen were recorded into the 1860s. The Hobbs family, …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… Though her Majesty has commanded the Lord Keeper and others to hear his cause, he cannot obtain hearing. Prays … his bail, whereby he may have liberty to attend Cecil, and manifest such matters as are not fit to be concealed from … 50 men of her number allowed, and of them aboard, 100 are watermen and such as never were at sea before. Alex. …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… Cecil Papers December 1606 December 1606 Robert Hocknell and William Earle to the Earl of Salisbury. [After December … the Earl of Salisbury. [1606 or before]. He complains that bargemen damage Salisbury's property by landing on it as they … his tenants at Cheshunt and Hoddesdon to keep the bargemen off his land. Since Sir Robert Wroth 9 and Sir …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… notwithstanding, I humbly submit myself to your leisure and wisdom in it.From my lodging this Sunday. Holograph. … space of 20 years faithfully served her Majesty as steward and receiver of the Lady of Lennox' lands, and am now tenant … intent to go to Walsingham House, and understanding by the watermen that my brother was gone to Essex House, I …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… petitioner discovered that the payment was not regular, and that there was no likelihood of the bargain being … treason, with the consequent forfeiture of all his lands and goods. Petitioner requests that he be repaid the debt, … Salisbury MSS, Vol. XVIII, p. 17.] The Wherrymen and Watermen of London to the Earl of Salisbury. [After January …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… days he understood of a Dunkirker that rode in Cattwater, and being persuaded by certain of the company that she was rich, they first made him drunken and then in that humour drew him to give an attempt upon her. … them, that they were of How. But word being brought me by bargemen that were at that time to unlade corn out of a …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… The physician whom his mother sent was here when he died, and the lady herself within 14 miles. I stayed, therefore, till the corpse were viewed by physicians and surgeons and laid in cere-clothes, that it might abide … Garrowe, for Irish horse and foot; Edward Newton, for bargemen; to Cormocke, Tirlagh Gilson, Arte Me Hughe …