 | Roger North - Great Britain - 1826 - 482 pages
...farmhouses (the houses of gentlemen were castles of course) were built of stone in the manner of a square tower, with an overhanging battlement, and, underneath,...came, they went up to the top, and, with hot water and stones from the battlement, fought in defence of their cattle. The advantage of the union was so great... | |
 | Roger North - College teachers - 1826 - 484 pages
...stone in the manner of a square tower, with an overhanging battlement, and, underneath, the cattle wer2 lodged every night. In the upper room the family lodged,...came, they went up to the top, and, with hot water and stones from the battlement, fought in defence of their cattle. The advantage of the union was so great... | |
 | Moses Aaron Richardson - Ballads, English - 1843 - 436 pages
...houses (the houses of gentlemen were castles of course) were built of stone in the manner of a square tower, with an overhanging battlement, and, underneath,...came, they went up to the top, and, with hot water and stones from the battlement, fought in defence of their cattle. The advantage of the union was so great... | |
 | Walter White - Borders Region (Scotland) - 1859 - 498 pages
...Houses (the Houses of Gentlemen were Castles of course,) were built of stone in the manner of a Square Tower, with an overhanging Battlement, and, underneath...came, they went up to the Top, and, with hot Water and Stones from the Battlement, THE GOOD OLD TIMES. 57 fought in defence of their Cattle. The advantage... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Durham (England : County) - 1864 - 430 pages
...thieving of cattle, so that all the considerable farm-houses were built of stone in the manner of a square tower, with an overhanging battlement, and underneath...came, they went up to the top, and, with hot water and stones from the battlement, fought in defence of their cattle." Bishop Ridley's last letter contains... | |
 | Gideon Tibbetts Ridlon - Family History - 1884 - 1006 pages
...tower, in which the cattle were lodged every night; in the upper rooms the family lodged, and when an alarm came, they went up to the top and with hot water and stones from the battlements faught in defence of their cattle." The cattle and estate of Willimoteswick... | |
 | Roger North - Lawyers - 1890 - 456 pages
...farmhouses (the houses of gentlemen were castles of course) were built of stone in the manner of a square tower with an overhanging battlement, and underneath...came, they went up to the top, and, with hot water and stones from the battlement, fought in defence of thencattle. The advantage of the union was so great... | |
 | Roger North - Lawyers - 1890 - 490 pages
...farmhouses (the houses of gentlemen were castles of course) were built of stone in the manner of a square tower with an overhanging battlement, and underneath...came, they went up to the top, and, with hot water and stones from the battlement, fought in defence of their cattle. The advantage of the union was so great... | |
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... running into the next territory, was safe, so here they stole on either side, and the other under a different jurisdiction was an asylum. This was so great a mischief that all the considerable farmhouses (the houses of gentlemen were castles of course)... 