Travel in England in the Seventeenth CenturyOxford University Press, H. Milford, 1925 - 354 páginas |
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Página 330 - Act was declared to be necessary in the preamble, because " by reason of some defects in the law, poor people are not restrained from going from one parish to another, and therefore do endeavour to settle themselves in those parishes where there is the best stock...
Página 93 - Is it for a man's health to travel with tired jades, to be laid fast in the foul ways, and forced to wade up to the knees in mire ; afterwards sit in the cold, till teams of horses can be sent to pull the coach out...
Página 132 - ... not to dine, but ride from breakefast to supper time, yet comming early to the...
Página 93 - For, what advantage is it to men's health, to be called out of their beds into these coaches an hour before day in the morning, to be hurried in them from place to place, till one hour, two, or three within night; insomuch that, after sitting all day in the...
Página 328 - Good Mr. Jowler, we pray you speak to the King (for he hears you every day, and so doth he not us) that it will please his Majesty to go back to London, for else the country will be undone ; all our provision is spent already, and we are not able to entertain him longer.
Página 333 - My father being then in the Commission of the Peace, and going to a Petty Sessions at Watlington, I waited on him thither. And when we came near the town, the coachman, seeing a nearer and easier way (than the common road) through a corn-field, and that it was wide enough for the wheels to run without damaging the corn, turned down there; which being observed by a husbandman who was at plough not far off, he ran to us, and stopping the coach, poured forth a mouthful of complaints, in none of the...
Página 146 - For albeit their money be safe for the time that it is in his hands (for you shall not hear that a man is robbed in his...
Página 125 - ... gentleman would hardly hold out to London ; yet being set on a good gelding, astride in an unwonted fashion, the stirring of the horse brought blood enough into her face, and so she rid on towards Blackwall...
Página 43 - Clark to let me go out at the back door, and so slip away. The plot, I suppose, was so laid, that Clark should seem averse, but at length yield, which he did ; but would have me take it for a favour. But I was so far from taking it so, that I would not take it at all, but told them plainly, that as I came in at the fore door, so I would go out at the fore door.
Página 177 - Widdrington was keeper with £500 per annum salary. The country is yet very sharp upon thieves ; and a violent suspicion there is next to conviction. When his lordship held the assizes at Newcastle, there was one Mungo Noble (supposed to be a great thief) brought to trial before his lordship, upon four several indictments ; and his lordship was so much a South country judge as not to think any of them well proved.