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On Monday the fourth of January, the said Lord of Merry Disports came by water to London, and landed at the Tower-wharfe, entered the Tower, and then rode through the
Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries William Francis Dawson
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"Imprynted at London in Tamestrete at the Vintre on the thre Craned wharfe by Wylliam Copland."
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Near the Town is a wharfe built of wood, run out a proper Distance into the Sea for the Conveniency of landing and
Captain Cook's Journal during his first voyage round the world 1767
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Near the Town is a wharfe built of wood, run out a proper
Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World James Cook 1753
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To this wharfe water is convey'd in pipes and by means of Cocks.
Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World James Cook 1753
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Up, and betimes in the morning down to the Tower wharfe, there to attend the shipping of soldiers, to go down to man some ships going out, and pretty to see how merrily some, and most go, and how sad others -- the leave they take of their friends, and the terms that some wives, and other wenches asked to part with them: a pretty mixture.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1667 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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I went therefore to Mr. Boreman's for pastime, and there staid an houre or two talking with him, and reading a discourse about the River of Thames, the reason of its being choked up in several places with shelfes; which is plain is, by the encroachments made upon the River, and running out of causeways into the River at every wood-wharfe; which was not heretofore when Westminster Hall and
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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Up, and betimes in the morning down to the Tower wharfe, there to attend the shipping of soldiers, to go down to man some ships going out, and pretty to see how merrily some, and most go, and how sad others -- the leave they take of their friends, and the terms that some wives, and other wenches asked to part with them: a pretty mixture.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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I went therefore to Mr. Boreman's for pastime, and there staid an houre or two talking with him, and reading a discourse about the River of Thames, the reason of its being choked up in several places with shelfes; which is plain is, by the encroachments made upon the River, and running out of causeways into the River at every wood-wharfe; which was not heretofore when Westminster Hall and
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1666 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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Up, and betimes in the morning down to the Tower wharfe, there to attend the shipping of soldiers, to go down to man some ships going out, and pretty to see how merrily some, and most go, and how sad others -- the leave they take of their friends, and the terms that some wives, and other wenches asked to part with them: a pretty mixture.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 52: April 1667 Samuel Pepys 1668
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