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A Table of Rates for Watermen, as they are set forth
by the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London.

SOURCE: REMARKS ON LONDON, being an Exact Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, Borough of Southwark... By W. Stow., London, 1722.

  Oars Scul.
  s.   d. s.   d.
From London Bridge to Limehouse,  New Crane,  Shadwell Dock,  Bell Wharf,  Ratcliff Cross  1    0 0    6
To Wapping Dock, Wapping New & Old Stairs, the Hermitage, Rotherhith Church Stairs 0    6 0    3
From St. Olave's to Rotherhith Church Stairs, and Rotherhith Stairs  0    6 0    3
From Billingsgate and St. Olave's to St. Saviour's Mill  0    6 0    3
All the Stairs between London Bridge and Westminster 0    6 0    3
From either side above Bridge to Lambeth and Vauxhall 1    0 0    6
From Whitehall to Lambeth & Vauxhall 0    6 0    3
From the Temple, Dorset, Blackfriars Stairs, and Paul's Wharf, to Lambeth 0    8 0    4
Over the Water directly betwixt Vauxhall and Limehouse 0    4 0    2