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" ... my work was to go before my master to church; to attend my master when he went abroad; to make clean his shoes; sweep the street; help to drive bucks when he washed; fetch water in a tub from the Thames: I have helped to carry eighteen tubs of water... "
The Lives of Those Eminent Antiquaries Elias Ashmole, Esquire, and Mr ... - Page 10
by Elias Ashmole - 1774 - 406 pages
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William Lilly's History of His Life and Times from the Year 1602 to 1681

William Lilly - Astrologers - 1822 - 310 pages
...he went abroad ; to make clean his shoes ; sweep the street ; help to drive bucks when he washed ; fetch -water in a tub from the Thames : I have helped...garden ; all manner of drudgeries I willingly performed ; scrape trenchers, &c. If I had any profession, it was of this nature : I should never have denied...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 26

English literature - 1822 - 582 pages
...when he went abroad; to make clean bis shoes; sweep the streets; help to drive bucks when we washed; fetch water in a tub from the Thames, I have helped...eighteen tubs of water in one morning; weed the garden; scrape trenchers, and s'o forth. If I had any profession, it was of this nature. I should never have...
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Illustrations, Critical, Historical, Biographical, and ..., Volume 2

Richard Warner - 1824 - 506 pages
...when he went abroad ; to make clean his shoes, sweep the streets, help to drive bucks when we washed, fetch water in a tub from the Thames, (I have helped...eighteen tubs of water in one morning,) weed the garden, scrape trenchers, and so forth. If I had any profession, it was of this nature. I should never have...
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Rambles by Rivers: The Thames, Volumes 1-2

James Thorne - Thames River (England) - 1847 - 480 pages
...he went abroad ; to make clean his shoes ; sweep the streets ; help to drive bucks when we washed ; fetch water in a tub from the Thames — I have helped...eighteen tubs of water in one morning ; weed the garden, scrape trenchers, and so forth. If I had any profession, it was of this nature. I should never have...
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The book of days, a miscellany of popular antiquities, Volume 1

Robert Chambers - Chronology, Historical - 1862 - 882 pages
...he went abroad ; to make clean his shoes ; sweet the street ; help to drive bucks when he washed ; fetch water in a tub from the Thames (I have helped to carry eighteen tuba of water in one morning) ; weed the garden. All manner of drudgeries I performed, scraped trenchers,'...
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The Continental Monthly, Volume 4

American periodicals - 1863 - 774 pages
...he went abroad ; to make clean his shoes ; sweep the street ; help to drive bucks when he washed ; fetch water in a tub from the Thames — I have helped to 380 381 carry eighteen tubs of water in one morning ; — weed the garden. All manner of drudgery I...
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Witch, Warlock, and Magician: Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in ...

William Henry Davenport Adams - Literary Criticism - 1889 - 448 pages
...he went abroad ; to make clean his shoes ; sweep the street ; help to drive bucks when he washed ; fetch water in a tub from the Thames (I have helped...garden ; all manner of drudgeries I willingly performed ; scrape trenchers,' etc. In 1624 his mistress (he says) died of cancer in the breast, and he came...
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The Collected Historical Works of Sir Francis Palgrave, K.H.

Sir Francis Palgrave - Great Britain - 1922 - 500 pages
...he went abroad; to make clean his " shoes; sweep the streets; help to drive bucks when we washed; " fetch water in a tub from the Thames, I have helped...eighteen tubs of water in one morning ; weed the garden ; scrape " trenchers, and so forth. If I had any profession, it was of this " nature. I should never...
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University Library of Autobiography, Including All the Great ..., Volume 5

Autobiographies - 1918 - 456 pages
...when he went abroad; to make clean his shoes; sweep the street; help to drive bucks when he washed ; fetch water in a tub from the Thames: I have helped...garden; all manner of drudgeries I willingly performed ; scrape trenchers, &c. If I had any profession, it was of this nature: I should never have denied...
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The Collected Historical Works of Sir Francis Palgrave, K.H.

Sir Francis Palgrave, Sir Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave, Geoffrey Palgrave Barker - 500 pages
...he went abroad; to make clean his " shoes; sweep the streets; help to drive bucks when we washed; " fetch water in a tub from the Thames, I have helped...eighteen tubs of water in one morning; weed the garden; scrape " trenchers, and so forth. If I had any profession, it was of this " nature. I should never...
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