Note 1273 — Chapter XI · “THE LABOUR’D OX”
Reading edition
G. Roberts, Social Hist. of the People of the Southern Counties of England, 1856, p. 487. Cf. D. Defoe, Tour thro’ the whole Island of Great Britain, 1724, I. pp. 59-60. Timber taken by road from Sussex to Maidstone, and thence by river to Chatham, sometimes required three years for the journey.