gote

Example Sentences

• "... "Sculcoates gote to the mid- stream of the river Humber" is mentioned. The following extract from Lord John Russell's Memoirs of Thomas Moore (vol. v. p. 28.) may throw light on the site of this gote, one of the[…]"
• "... Sculcoates gote to the Humber, for the purpose of draining the marshes within his lordship. In the south aisle of the church of Sutton, were formerly to be seen the arms of the family in glass, and at a later period there was in the[…]"
• "... Sculcoates Gote to the Humber, after which it became the new waterway, so as to float large vessels from its mouth, northward to the point called "Sudcoates Gote, near the Charter House." Subsequently, disputes and much[…]"
• "[In 44 Eliz.] a great controversie did arise in Co. Lincoln, about building of two new gotes at Skirbeck and Langrate (Langrick), for the draining of waters out of South Holland Fens into Boston Haven, which Sir Edward Dymoke with his friends supported."
• "[73.] Much hurte and damage being done to many townshipps by reason of two gotes or water-sewers, thone of them passing by Snape Mill to the Swale, thother coming from Firbie to Leeminge becke, both having been for long unscoured and growne upp with mudd and weedes, whereby the water overfloweth divers men's granules &c : Ordered that all such inhabᵗˢ as possess anie groundes adjoyning to either side of the aforesaid gotes* shall yearly, from henceforth, between Pentecost and Michaelmas scoure the same, and every inhabᵗ. so adjoyninge and neglecting to scour &c, as aforesaid, to forfeit, for everie rood so unscoured, 3s. 4d.: and the same, on just complaint at Michˢ. Sessions, to be estreated […] For gote see gaut, Vol. II., p. 176 and note; and for water-sewer See I. 200, and note, and II. 9."