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The Humber is very salt, allwayes it rowles and tosses just like ye Sea, only ye soile being Clay turnes ye Water and waves yellow and soe it differs from ye Sea in Coullour, not Else – its a hazardous water by reason of many shoares ye tides meete.

Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888

I pass'd over a Bridge where two armes of the river meetes where yc tyde is very high and rowles in the sand in many places and Causes those Whirles or Hurricanes that will Come on storms wth great jmpetuosity.

Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888

The traveller, Strachey, writing of the Indians in 1618, said: "They lap their corn in rowles within the leaves of the come and so boyle yt for a dayntie."

Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881

And least they should lose any part of their meal, what did not pass the sieve, is made up into rowles, five or six inches thick.

Bucaniers of America: 1684

Sir Edward Walker being there, and telling us how he hath lost many fine rowles of antiquity in heraldry by the late fire, but hath saved the most of his papers.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

Sir Edward Walker being there, and telling us how he hath lost many fine rowles of antiquity in heraldry by the late fire, but hath saved the most of his papers.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1666 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

Sir Edward Walker being there, and telling us how he hath lost many fine rowles of antiquity in heraldry by the late fire, but hath saved the most of his papers.

The Diary of Samuel Pepys, December 1666 Pepys, Samuel 1666

Their corne they rost in the eare greene, and bruising it in a morter of wood with a Polt, lap it in rowles in the leaues of their corne, and so boyle it for a daintie.

The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles: With the Names of the Adventurers, Planters, and Governours from Their First Beginning, Ano: 1584. To This Present 1624. With the Procedings of Those Severall Colonies and the Accidents That Befell Them in All Their Journyes and Discoveries. Also the Maps and Descriptions of All Those Countryes, Their Commodities, People, Government, Customes, and Religion Yet Knowne. Divided into Sixe Bookes. By Captaine Iohn Smith, Sometymes Governour in Those Countryes & Admirall of New England 1624

Their heads were dress'd wth much haire and Long Locks full of Diamonds – some perfect Peakes of bows of Diamonds as was the Countess of Pembrook, – their heads so dress'd as a space Left for their Coronets to be set, all ye rest is filled wth haire, Jewells and gold, and white small Ribon, or Gold thinn Lace, in form of a peake, and gold gause on their rowles, they have also Diamond necklaces and jewels on their habitts.

Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888

1485: Sphericall Stone, which rowles, and rowles, and rowles:

Henry V (1623 First Folio Edition) 1623