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A New History of London
… was proclaimed the next day with the customary forms; and addresses from the city of London were on the 16th … of them. This year an act was passed for the regulation of watermen, wherrymen, and lightermen rowing on the river … of the populace. The stoppage of the navigation, disabled watermen and fishermen from earning their livelihood, as well …
A New History of London
… might be considered as extinct; until a change of men and measures under a new reign revived distinctions almost … the Sunday ferry which was carried on there by the Watermen's company for charitable purposes was ruined; the … they retired seemingly satisfied. On the 9th, the watermen went in a great body to represent their grievances …
A New History of London
… when Richard Oliver, Esq; merchant in Fenchurch-street, and one of the Supporters of the Bill of Rights, was chosen … with reporting the objections of some lightermen and watermen, very unfit judges of matters of this kind, and, … that the representations and memorial of the committee of watermen and lightermens company, of the chief owners of coal …
A New History of London
… that he had lost even the antient provinces of Normandy and Guienne, and retained only the town of Calais to support … was altered to a naval solemnity, to the great joy of the watermen, who composed a song on the occasion. The duke of … unfortunately discovered by some of the earl of Warwick's watermen, they knocked him on the head, and, stripping him, …
A New History of London
… Book 1, Ch. 7 Henry VII and Henry VIII CHAP. VII. From the accession of Henry VII. to … finally decided the disputes between the houses of York and Lancaster, in which so much English blood had been shed. … were converted, by the London servants and apprentices, watermen, and other working people, into an outrageous …
A New History of London
… From the particulars contained in the preceding history, and from the charters and other public acts in the Appendix, the reader will be … annually eleven overseers, or rulers of the fraternity of watermen. Sheriffs.; Sheriffs court. The office of sheriff, …
A New History of London
… London; as did John his son, to William Farendon, citizen and goldsmith in 1279: under whom and his son Nicholas, who was four times mayor, it remained … landing place at the top, as shelters and privies for the watermen. These stairs, however, by conforming to the …
A New History of London
… a rivulet or bourn, which ran down the street westward, and through Lombard-street as far as the church of St. Mary Woolnoth. Here parting into several shares, or rills, and turning Southward, it left a name to Share-bourn-lane, or … assured by this corporation, they have several engines and watermen, with proper instruments to extinguish fires, and …
A New History of London
… Book 3, Ch. 2 Rotherhithe, Newington Butts and Lambeth CHAP. II. The villages of Rotherhithe, Newington Butts, and Lambeth. These though contiguous to the borough of … inhabited by glass blowers, potters, fishermen, and watermen. The parish is divided into 4 liberties, and these …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Bramber BRAMBER Steyning, Bramber, And Botolphs c.1960 The former borough of Bramber, 59 with … for the sections concerning church history after 1526 and education, in which the histories of Bramber and Botolphs … The river, however, continued to provide employment. Two bargemen were recorded in the parish in 1672 and 1705. 71 In …