 Another thing that is remarkable is their wayleaves, for when men have pieces of ground between the colliery and the river they sell leave to lead coals over their ground, and so dear that the owner of a rood of ground will expect £20 per annum for this...  The Life of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer - Page 60by Samuel Smiles - 1858 - 557 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Roger North - Judges - 1808 - 360 pages
...bearing upon a clay that yielded. In this work he loit 2O,ooo/. Another thing, that is remarkable, is their wayleaves ; for, when men have pieces of ground between the colliery and the river, they fell leave to lead coals over their ground ; and fo dear that the owner of a rood of ground will expect... | |
 | Roger North - College teachers - 1826 - 484 pages
...bearing upon a clay that yielded. In this work he lost 20,000/. Another thing, that is remarkable, is their wayleaves ; for, when men have pieces of...ground between the colliery and the river, they sell leave to lead coals over their ground ; and so dear that the owner of a rood of ground will expect... | |
 | John Holland - Coal - 1835 - 514 pages
...Collieries, &c. about Newcastle, written in 1676, that " another thing remarkable is their way -leaves ; for when men have pieces of ground between the colliery and the river, they sell leave to lead coals over their ground ; and so dear, that the owner of a rood of ground will expect... | |
 | John Holland - History - 1841 - 512 pages
...Collieries, &c. about Newcastle, written in 1676, that "another thing remarkable is their way leaves; for when men have pieces of ground between the colliery and the river, they sell leave to lead coals over their ground; and so dear, that the owner of a rood of ground will expect... | |
 | Moses Aaron Richardson - Ballads, English - 1843 - 436 pages
...bearing upon a clay that yielded. In this work he lost dC20,000. Another' thing, that is remarkable, is their wayleaves ; for, when men have pieces of...ground between the colliery and the river, they sell leave to lead coals over their ground ; and so dear that the owner of a rood of ground will expect... | |
 | English literature - 1844 - 698 pages
...Newcastle, says that amongst the curiosities of the region were what were called ' way-leaves :' — , ' When men have pieces of ground between the colliery and the river, they sell leave to lead coals over their ground, anil so dear, that the owner of a rood of ground will expect... | |
 | American periodicals - 1845 - 636 pages
...granted for the privileje of laying down such roads, and of transit over them at Newcastle, says, " When men have pieces of ground between the colliery and the river, they sell leave to lead coals over their ground, mid so dear, that the owner of a rood of ground will expect... | |
 | Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1845 - 862 pages
...granted for the privilege of laying down such roads, and of transit over them at Newcastle, says, ' When men have pieces of ground between the colliery and the river, they sell hare to lead coals over their ground, and so dear, that the owner of a rood of ground will expect L.20... | |
 | 1846 - 486 pages
...says, that among the curiosities which he saw in these parts were what were called "way-leaves:" — "When men have pieces of ground between the colliery and the river, they sell leave to 'lead' over their ground, and so dear that the owner of a rood of ground will expect 20/.... | |
 | British empire - 1847 - 812 pages
...thinking of poetry when he described a Newcastle railway in 1680: "Another thing, that is remarkable, is their way-leaves ; for when men have pieces of...ground between the colliery and the river, they sell leave to lead coals over their ground ; and so dear that the owner of a rood of ground will expect... | |
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