forespan

Updated: May 23, 2025

By not going first to Toulouse, remarks John Yeardley, we saved about thirty miles of travelling; but it was ill-spared, for one part of the road was so bad that it required a forespan of two oxen to drag the carriage through the deep mire and over the dangerous ditches.

John Yeardley - Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel