 | Richard Thomson - Bridges - 1827 - 728 pages
...Chronicle, page 197- ' Then came the ships to Greenwich, and, within a short interval, to London ; where they sank a deep ditch on the South side, and dragged their ships to the West side of the Bridge. Afterwards they trenched the City without, so that no man could go in or out, and often fought against... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - London (England) - 1829 - 442 pages
...having advanced up the river with their fleet, were impeded in their progress by the Bridge, when, according to the " Saxon Chronicle," " they sank a...to have commenced at Rotherhithe, and continuing in the form of a semicircle, to have entered the Thames again at the lower end of Chelsea Reach. William... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - London (England) - 1829 - 442 pages
...having advanced up the river with their fleet, were impeded in their progress by the Bridge, when, according to the " Saxon Chronicle," " they sank a...to have commenced at Rotherhithe, and continuing in the form of a semicircle, to have entered the Thames again at the lower end of Chelsea Reach. William... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - London (England) - 1829 - 456 pages
...panegyric: " Laudandi prorsus viiietquos Mais ipse collata non sperneret hasia si diicem habuissent." ditch on the south side, and dragged their ships to the west side of the Bridge. Afterwards they trenched the city about, so that no man could go in nor out, and often fought against... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - England - 1834 - 432 pages
...half-penny for toll, and if it be a larger vessel, one penny." In the year 1016, the Danes under the command of Canute, having advanced up the river with...removal of the body of the martyred St. Elphege, from St. Paul's Cathedral to Canterbury, by Canute, in the year 1023, the Bridge is again noticed; the King's... | |
 | Charles Knight - London (England) - 1841 - 478 pages
...after stopping for a short time at Greenwich, proceeded up the river to London ; " where," it is added, "they sank a deep ditch on the south side, and dragged their ships to the west side of the bridge." The meaning seems to be, that they towed their ships past the bridge through a canal which they dug... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1841 - 566 pages
...of this event: — "Then came the ships to Greenwich, and within a short interval to London ; where they sank a deep ditch on the south side, and dragged their ships to the west side of the bridge. Afterwards they trenched the city about, so that no man could go in nor out, and often fought against... | |
 | Robert Peirce Cruden - Associations, institutions, etc - 1843 - 622 pages
...ships to Greenwich, about the gang-days, and within a short interval went to London,- where they sunk a deep ditch on the south side, and dragged their ships to the west side of the bridge." — Saxon Chronicle, by Ingram. Sub anno 101&. J CDeji|-r. - I'lilmli-, KM.I paludosa, locus palustris.... | |
 | Charles Knight - London (England). - 1851 - 902 pages
...stopping for a short time at Greenwich, proceeded up the river to London ; " where," it is added, " they sank a deep ditch on the south side, and dragged their ships to the west side of the bridge." Old Stow gives the following account of the original foundation of London Bridge, from the report of... | |
 | Charles Knight - London (England). - 1851 - 882 pages
...stopping for a short time at Greenwich, proceeded up the river to London ; " where," it is added, " they sank a deep ditch on the south side, and dragged their ships to the west side of the bridge." Old Stow gives the following account of the original foundation of London Bridge, from the report of... | |
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And within a little space they went to London, and they dug a great ditch on the south side, and dragged their ships to the west side of the bridge... 
