The cottages and the village life of rural England (1912)
Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930, Quinton, A.R · London, J.M. Dent & sons ltd.; New York, E.P. Dutton & co. · leaf 216
Roadswere dangerous, and the passage across fords after much rainwhen the rivers were in flood often resulted in death by drowning.If the river was broad and deep there would be a ferry, and theferryman had to be paid for his trouble in taking passengers acrossthe stream. A monkish rhymer in 1416,… … LIFE OF RURAL ENGLAND refused passage. Culhamhithe hath caused many a curse,he tells us, and Another blyssed business is bigger to makeThat there the pepel may not passe after great schowres. Dole it is to draw a dead body out of a lakeThat was pulled in a fount stone * and a fellow of owres. The…
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