By Pike and Dyke: a Tale of the Rise of the Dutch Republic (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781515214915)

Rotherhithe in the year of 1572 differed very widely from the Rotherhithe of today. It was then a scattered village, inhabited chiefly by a seafaring population. It was here that the captains of many of the ships that sailed from the port of London had their abode. Snug cottages with trim gardens lay thickly along the banks of the river, where their owners could sit and watch the vessels passing up and down or moored in the stream, and discourse with each other over the hedges as to the way in which they were handled, the smartness of their equipage, whence they had come, or where they were going. For the trade of London was comparatively small in those days, and the skippers as they chatted together could form a shrewd guess from the size and appearance of each ship as to the country with which she traded, or whether she was a coaster working the eastern or southern ports.

Author: G. a. Henty
ISBN-10: 1515214915
ISBN-13: 9781515214915
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 07/24/2015
Pages: 120
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.25d