 | 1883 - 394 oldal
...then to be hired in London at their stand, at the May-pole in the Strand, or elsewhere. It is added, "Everybody is much pleased with it. For, whereas before...great rates, now a man may have one much cheaper." THE TITLED CONVICT. [This vivid word-picture of the fatal dower of " money " occurs in Eighteen Months'... | |
 | Walter Thornbury - 1879 - 604 oldal
...had. Other hackney men seeing this way, they flocked to the same place, and perform their journeys at the same rate, so that sometimes there is twenty of them together, which disperse up and down, so that they and others are to be had everywhere, as watermen are to be had at the waterside. Everybody... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1891 - 640 oldal
...had. Other hackney-men seeing this way, they flocked to the same place, and perform their journeys at the same rate ; so that sometimes there is twenty...everywhere, as watermen are to be had by the water-side. — Garrard to the Earl of Strafford, vol. i. p. 227. February II, 1659-1660. — The Butchers at the... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1891 - 646 oldal
...had. Other hackney-men seeing this way, they flocked to the same place, and perform their journeys at the same rate ; so that sometimes there is twenty...be had everywhere, as watermen are to be had by the water-side.—Garrard to the Earl of Strafford, vol. i. p. 227. February n, 1659-1660.—The Butchers... | |
 | Edmund Fillingham King - 1894 - 712 oldal
...be had. Other hackneymen seeing this way, they flock to the same place, and perform their journeys at the same rate. So that sometimes there is twenty...disperse up and down ; that they and others are to bu had everywhere, as watermen are to be had by the water-side. * * * Everybody is much pleased with... | |
 | Laurence Hutton - 1895 - 208 oldal
...Other hackney-men," he adds, " seeing this way, flocked to the same place and performed their journey at the same rate, so that sometimes there is twenty of them together, which disperse up and down !" The good citizen shopkeepers of London complained bitterly that they were ruined by the hackneys,... | |
 | Laurence Hutton - 1895 - 204 oldal
...Other hackney-men," he adds, "seeing this way, flocked to the same place and performed their journey at the same rate, so that sometimes there is twenty of them together, which disperse up and down !" The good citizen shopkeepers of London complained bitterly that they were ruined by the hackneys,... | |
 | Henry Charles Moore - 1902 - 304 oldal
...flocked to the same place, and perform their journeys at the same rate ; so that sometimes there are twenty of them together, which disperse up and down,...for, whereas, before, coaches could not be had but at greater rates, now a man may have one much cheaper." Charles I. did not, however, regard hackneycoaches... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1902 - 500 oldal
...had. Other hackney-men seeing this way, they flocked to the same places and perform their journeys at the same rate ; so that sometimes there is twenty...which disperse up and down, that they and others are had everywhere, as watermen are to be had by the waterside. Everybody is much pleased with it ; for... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1903 - 344 oldal
...be had. Other hackneymen seeing this way, they flocked to the same place, and perform their journeys at the same rate; so that sometimes there is twenty...great rates, now a man may have one much cheaper." — " Strafford's Letters and Despatches," vol. i, p. 227. The letter from which the above abstract... | |
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... in the Strand, giving them instructions at what rates to carry men into several parts of the town, where all day they may be had. Other hackney men seeing this way, they flocked to the same place, and perform their journeys at the same rate. So that... 
