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" As the art to boore with, iron rodds to try the deepnesse and thicknesse of the Coale ; rare engines to draw water out of the Pits : Waggons with one horse to carry down Coales, from the Pits, to the Stathes, to the River, &c. Within few years, he consumed... "
A Practical Treatise on Rail-roads, and Interior Communication in General ... - Page 35
by Nicholas Wood - 1825 - 314 pages
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The Harleian miscellany; or, A collection of ... pamphlets and ..., Volume 11

Harleian miscellany - 1810 - 584 pages
...pits; waggons, with one horse, to carry down coals from the pits to the stathes, to the river, &c. Within a few years, he consumed all his money, and rode home upon his light horse. Some Londoners, of late, have disbursed their monies for the reversion of a lease of colliery, about...
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The Harleian Miscellany: A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and ..., Volume 11

Great Britain - 1810 - 602 pages
...pits; waggons, with one horse, to carry down coalsifrom the pits to the stathes, to the river, &c. Within a few years, he consumed all his money, and rode home upon his light horse. Some Londoners, of late, have disbursed their monies for the reversion of alease of colliery, about...
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The Harleian Miscellany, Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and ..., Volume 11

Great Britain - 1810 - 634 pages
...pits; waggons, with one horse, to carry down coals from the pits to the stathes, to the river, &c. Within a few years, he consumed all his money, and rode home upon his light horse. Some Londoners, of late, have disbursed their monies for the reversion of a lease of colliery, about...
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The Beauties of England and Wales: Or, Delineations ..., Volume 16, Part 1

John Britton, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1813 - 734 pages
...waggons with one horse, to carry down coales from the pits, to the stathes to the river, &-c. Within few years he consumed all his money, and rode home upon his light horse." t The • Bourne's Newc. 154. t Grey's Choro. p. 24. •"The coale trade began not past four-score...
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The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations ..., Volume 12, Issue 1

John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1813 - 750 pages
...with one horse, to carry down coales from the pits, to the stathes to the river, &c. Within fewyears he consumed all his money, and rode home upon his light horse." f The • Bourne's Newc. 154. * Grey's Cboro. p. Si4. 28 '"The coale trade began not past four-score...
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Newcastle Reprints: Historical

1818 - 334 pages
...Waggons with one horse to carry down Coales, from the Pits, to the Stathes, to the River, &c. Within few years, he consumed all his money, and rode home upon his light horse. Some Londoners of late, hath disbursed their monies for the reversion of a lease of Colliery, about...
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The Mirror of literature, amusement, and instruction [ed. by T. Byerley ...

Thomas Byerley - 1823 - 528 pages
...Beaumont, a gentleman of great ingenuity and rari parts, adventured into our mines with his 30,000/. But within a few years, he consumed all his money, and rode home upon his light horse." Many circumstances thus combine to heighten the probability, that Sir Richard Whitlington, who flourished...
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London, Or Interesting Memorials of Its Rise, Progress & Present State, Volume 1

Sholto Percy, Reuben Percy - London (England) - 1824 - 386 pages
...Beaumont, a gentleman of great ingenuity and rare parts, adventured into our mines with his 30,000(. But within a few years, he consumed all his money, and rode home upon his light horse." Many circumstances thus comhine to heighten the prohahility, that Sir Richard Whittington, who flourished...
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An Historical, Topographical, and Descriptive View of the County ..., Volume 1

Eneas Mackenzie - Berwick-upon-Tweed (England) - 1825 - 538 pages
...pits ; waggons with one horse to carry down coals from the pits to the staiths, to the river, <$-c. within a few years he consumed all his money, and rode home upon his light horse. Some Londoners, of late, have disbursed their monies for the reversion of a lease of a colliery, about...
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The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select, Volume 18

Anecdotes - 1826 - 384 pages
...draw water out of pits ; waggons with one horse, to draw down coales from the pits to the stathes, &c. Within a few years, he consumed all his money, and rode home upon his light horse." The family of Beaumont have, however, since found the advantage of perseverance ; and a descendant...
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