The Life and Times of Dick Whittington: An Historical Romance

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H. Cunningham, 1841 - 342 strani
 

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Stran 341 - Of old time coaches were not known in this island, but chariots or whirlicotes, then so called, and they only used of princes or great estates, such as had their footmen about them...
Stran 125 - These contracted the space between the piers so greatly, as to occasion, at the retreat of every tide, a fall of five feet, or a number of temporary cataracts, which, since the foundation of the Bridge, have occasioned the loss of many thousand lives.
Stran 80 - Hithe ward, so called of a water gate, or harbour for boats, lighters, and barges ; and was of old time for ships, at what time the timber bridge, of London was drawn up, for the passage of them to the said hithe, as to a principal strand for landing and unlading against the midst and heart of the city. This ward beginneth in the east, in Knightriders...

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