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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... "
Time's Telescope for ... ; Or, A Complete Guide to the Almanack - Page 73
1821
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Half-hours with the Best Letter-writers and Autobiographers ..., Volume 2

Charles Knight - Autobiography - 1868 - 506 pages
...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...great rates, now a man may have one much cheaper." Mr. Garrard, although not very copious in his relations of the aspects of general society, is far more...
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Curiosities of London: Exhibiting the Most Rare and Remarkable Objects of ...

John Timbs - East India House (London, England) - 1868 - 896 pages
...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...and others are to be had everywhere, as watermen are tu be had by the water-side." and that in many parts beyond sea people were much carried in chairs...
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Curiosities of London: Exhibiting the Most Rare and Remarkable Objects of ...

John Timbs - East India House (London, England) - 1868 - 902 pages
...had. Other hackuey-men seeing this way, they flocked to the came 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 be hod everywhere, as watermen ore to be had by the water-side." A successful rival, however, soon appeared...
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Memorials of Temple Bar; with some account of Fleet street, and the parishes ...

Theophilus Charles Noble - Fleet Street (London, England) - 1870 - 152 pages
...wardmote inquest return of 1646 there were three coachmen presented for a great ยป " Sometimes there Is 20 of them together, which disperse up and down that...are to be had everywhere as watermen are to be had at the water side." (Stratford's Letters, 1034). In 1035 they were limited ; in June, 1830, the coachmen...
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London: It's Celebrated Characters And Remarkable Places

J. Heneage Jesse - 1871 - 508 pages
...that sometimes there is twenty of them together, which disperse up and down, that they and others are had everywhere, as watermen are to be had by the water-side....great rates, now a man may have one much cheaper." In 1677 a mysterious duel was fought under the Maypole in the Strand, in which one of the combatants,...
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London: Its Celebrated Characters and Remarkable Places, Volume 3

John Heneage Jesse - London (England) - 1871 - 510 pages
...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 water-side. Everybody is much pleased with it; for...
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Report, Issue 1

Carriage-Builders' National Association of the United States of America - 1873 - 42 pages
...seeing this, they flocked to the same place, and perform their journey at the same rate, so at times there is twenty of them together, which disperse up...are to be had everywhere, as watermen are to be had at the water side." The popular clamor against coaches still continued among the lower classes, and...
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Journal, Volume 21

Industrial arts - 1873 - 996 pages
...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...disperse up and down, that they and others are to be had anywhere, as watermen are to be had by the water-side. Every body is much pleased with it. For whereas...
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Walks in London, Volume 1

Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - London (England) - 1878 - 528 pages
...Letters relate that " sometimes there are twenty of them together, which disperse up and down," and that " they and others are to be had everywhere as Watermen are to be had at the waterside." In the same year the Watermen complained vehemently to the king that the hackney...
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Walks in London, Volume 1

Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - London (England) - 1878 - 528 pages
...Letters relate that " sometimes there are twenty of them together, which disperse up and down," and that " they and others are to be had everywhere as Watermen are to be had at the waterside." In the same year the Watermen complained vehemently to the king that the hackney...
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