 | Thomas Thompson - 1822 - 174 pages
...I am not able to say; but it is like that they did so for no short time after, there being scarce a year in the succeeding part of this king's reign,...coast of Humbre," between the towns of Hesele and Ravensere ; and shortly afterwards, commissioners were directed to examine the banks from " Hull briggs"... | |
 | Whellan T. and co - 1856 - 698 pages
...succeeding part of this King's (Richd. II.) reign, that one or more commissions were not issued for repairs of the banks, in some place or other upon this great river." In 1361 the inhabitants of Ravenser were driven to flight by these overwhelming floods, and coming... | |
 | James Joseph Sheahan, T. Whellan - York (England) - 1857 - 692 pages
...succeeding part of this King's (Richd. U.) reign, that one or more commissions were not issued for repairs of the banks, in some place or other upon this great river." In 1361 the inhabitants of Ravenser were driven to flight by these overwhelming floods, and coming... | |
 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - Civil engineering - 1869 - 784 pages
...short time after, there being scarce a year in the succeeding part of this king's reign (20 years), that one or more commissions were not issued for repair of the banks upon this great river." In 1684, Greenville Collins, in his " Sailing Directions," gave the rise of... | |
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Dugdale states the great increase in the height of the tides at this period, and adds, " How long the tides upon this coast kept their course so much higher than they had formerly done, I am not able to say; but it is like that they did so for no short... 