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A New History of London
… 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
… were converted, by the London servants and apprentices, watermen, and other working people, into an outrageous …
A New History of London
… annually eleven overseers, or rulers of the fraternity of watermen. Sheriffs.; Sheriffs court. The office of sheriff, …
A New History of London
… landing place at the top, as shelters and privies for the watermen. These stairs, however, by conforming to the …
A New History of London
… assured by this corporation, they have several engines and watermen, with proper instruments to extinguish fires, and …
A New History of London
… inhabited by glass blowers, potters, fishermen, and watermen. The parish is divided into 4 liberties, and these …
The Environs of London
… 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
… 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
… 87 vessels and formed the largest community of Severn watermen between Welshpool and Gloucester. Two main types of … town'. 95 Miners were most numerous but there were also watermen, potters, clay-pipe makers, and a wide range of … character. Between the later 16th and the 19th centuries watermen comprised a large part of the population, while in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… master waterman c. 1815-34 at North Street, 36 where other watermen were recorded into the 1860s. The Hobbs family, watermen in the 1810s, were building boats there by 1841 and …