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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65618	A list of some chief workes which Mr. William Wheeler offered to undertake he having already often performed many of them, and being able to demonstrate his sufficiency for the rest.	Wheeler, William, 17th cent.	1653 (1653)	Wing W1602; ESTC R2961	4,843	10

most plentyfull upon the richest grounds vvhich is a mighty discommodity to young beginners vvho expecting a Land of Canaan and rest find themselves in a Campe of vvarr and to them such expence of time and cost are for the most part intollerable XIV Hee can by Carts of a nevv fashion transport great burthens from Place to place and vvhereas the old ones spoile good vvayes by making holes Cartrouts c. in them to the extreme prejudice of the poore Cattle that dravv them to the vexation of the drivers vvho vvith their horses and carriages are oft times stuck fast in a Bogg hole or slough and to the displeasure and irkesomnes of travailers these nevv Inventions shall plaine and level and strengthen the said vvayes in such sort as if their vvhole use vvere but to mend vvhat the others have undone and spoiled XV. Neither doth he only take avvay the common loathsome discommodities of High-vvayes but can make the vvorst of them viz the great roades vvithin a mile or tvvo of Londen or any other great Cittie vvhere vvayes are bad like pleasant Promenadoes and vvalkes of recreation in all kinds of vveather For vvant vvhereof most great Citties are so fare from shareing vvith Amsterdam in its Character 1. From being faire prisons that they may deservedly be called very foule and unvvholesome jakes and dunghils in comparison of it XVI Hee undertakes to make the Cittie of Londen a very faire svveet and pleasant Cittie for besides the aforementioned imbellishing the High-vvayes and rodes about it he doubteth not but vvithin a vveeks time to make it so cleane vvithin that one may vvalke in slippers in all vveathers except snovv in the fovvlest streets thereof and can settle a vvay vvhereby it may be so preserved vvith lesse then half an houres labour a day and vvith a very slight and cheape provision So that Houses scarce kept sufficiently cleane vvith tvvo servants may by his direction be put into that condition by one to the great preservation of cloaths and shoeleather as also of health and the invitation of Countrey-Gentlemen to live in it vvho doe for no other reason more then its foulenes abhorr to reside more frequently in it And besides all this vvhich may seeme strangest the very charge of scavengers shall be much lessened and the dirt vvhich in time being in so great quantities vvashed into the Thames vvill damm it up shall be converted to other uses and that vvater vvhich fovvles the said River shal clense the Land upon all occasiones and be ready in certaine Repositories or Cisternes vvhich he vvill make to run themselves vvhethersoever the necessity of quenching fires calls them Whereupon the confusion and vvast of breakeing up the streets opening the vvater-pipes c Made in such extremities shal vvholly cease as being no vvayes requisite XVII Hee vvill order that Bells may be rung vvith far lesse strength and smaler sized ropes then usuall vvhereby vve might oftner heare the pleasant noise of Bells vvithout a tumult of Ringers XVIII Hee is sorry to see Corne and fulling-Mills set crosse rivers so as to hinder the passablenes and navigabilitie of them and therefore hath invented a Mill vvherein one horse shall out-grind the strength of a great streame and others vvherein one man may out-doe one horse The vvhich besides the other uses vvould be of no small benefit in besieged Tovvnes Colonies c. vvhere men cannot or dare not make use of other Mills XIX Hee hath by his observation found out sure and un-erring markes to knovv vvhere springs are and hath effectuall vvayes of preserveing and encreasing them and although they rise in very lovv grounds he can transmit their vvaters to houses and tovvnes situate upon an hill and not only bring them to an house but convert them to many very pleasant and convenient uses therein XX. His insight into Gardening extendeth to the nourishing and cultivatening of out-landish plants and trees here at home so as to make them prosper and flourish as in their proper soile hovvbeit vvith lesse and vvorse fruit to make our domestick more fruitfull to accelerate the budding and ripening of fruits and flovvers as also to produce them out of their naturall seasons to make arbours and particularly to plant fruit trees vvith advantage upon boggs and fenns that novv yeeld little profit to their ovvners XXI Hee can discover a certaine vvood vvhereof there is great store in Engeland hitherto vvholly neglected and despised fit for timber fair tough and dureable free from vvormes not subject to rott either in the vvet or dry fitt for vvater-conduits generally good for all joyners vvorks particularly for vvainscot and vvithall very light of carriage XXII Hee maketh a certaine Cement vvhich may be molded into any figure and being polished is so hard that no ordinary stone-tooles vvill touch it very beautyfull and dureable and of a very reasonable rate XXIII Hee maketh vvalls as firme and substantiall as those of stone and brick and vvith a little paines as beautyfull if it be by the Sea-side and in other places of pebble-stones gravel or such like rubbish and vvith this matter he can counterfeit either brick or stone at a very easy rate XXIV Hee undertakes to preserve Beefe Pork Mutton and Venison a tvvelve moneths time from stinkeing and putrefaction and can so reduce tainted meates that the most discerning palate after he hath ordered them shall never be sensible of any such defect XXV Hee can in all seasons and Countries vvhether excessively intemperate in respect of heat cold or moisture vvhere meates vvill either not take salt at all or suddenly putrifie being salted remedie both the one and the other Inconveniencie XXVI Where there is occasion of building a fortress by the Sea-side vvhere all convenient materialls seeme to be vvanting he undertakes neverthelesse to find vvherevvithall to make a fort at least Canon-proofe XXVII He maketh up Sea-breaches vvheresoever they happen more speedily and firmly then by any vvay yet practised XXVIII Hee vvill raise a fountaine out of a Levell-ground vvhereas the ordinary ones are brought at a vast charge from some adjacent hills vvhich as they are cheaper then the others so are they no vvayes inferior to them in beauty and high-throvving of the vvater XXIX Whereas it happens upon the draining of Mersh or Fennie grounds that the materialls as turf-lands vvhereof the bankes used to that purpose are commonly made are subject either to dry burne avvay i● summer or to be burnt up by mischeivous people or to subside and sinke in vvinter hee ●an secure such vvorkes from the 〈◊〉 Inconveniencies XXX Moreover he can make these bankes so as by vvhat they shall prduce to defray the charge of their makeing Glory be to God the Father of Lights through JESU CHRIST WILLIAM WHEELER Eccles 9.16.18 VVisdome is better then strength VVisdome is better then vveapons of warr It is to be noted that in page 1. it is meant Hollands 〈…〉 which hath b●●● approved on before the States Generall in the Hague and at other places