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A75438 An answer to the objections, against making the river Darwent navigable 1695 (1695) Wing A3427B; ESTC R230829 4,366 1

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That as to the High Ways to be saved by the Navigation they extend but Five Miles and none that Repairs Them desires it Answer 'T IS a real Benefit tho' small and tho' it were neglected But in Fact several of them have Joyn'd in that Petition which is Presented by the Inhabitants in and near Derby Object VI It was never known That ever any Trent or Darwent Water-Man ever made a Sea-man Answer Tho' this were true yet greater Numbers may yield some Sea-men tho' very few have yielded none And t is certain that they are by This better prepar'd to become Sea-men as much as Water-men in any River are and more than the Water-men that Row the Thames-Wherries which yet have afforded Sea-men But however the Fact have heretofore been the Nature of the Thing speaks Unanswerably on Our Behalf Object VII There are more by Thousands set on Work by this Present Land-Carriage of Lead Corn c. than will be employ'd in the Water upon any Occasion whatsoever Answer THIS is the only true Objection allowing for the Hyperbole but it is Frivolous for during the Navigation there will be many more set on Work for the Land-Carriage than will be imployed upon the Water and there are not more set on Work now than will be then by Land and Water for all the said Land-Carriers will be Imployed then that are now except those who carry from Derby and Allestry to Wilne-Ferry and they are not so many as will be Imployed upon the Water and are all Derby-Men and Consenting For those that bring Lead out of the Peake will carry as they do or further for they now lay it down at Derby or at Allestry two Miles before they come to Derby but then they 'l carry it all to Derby and the same Carriers that carry from other Parts to Wilne-Ferry will carry to Derby And if some Miles are cut off which will lessen that Price 't is but lessened as the Labour is and their Returns will be quicker and they 'l have the Advantage of being Loaden Home again Note BUT on the Other Hand as That Shortens the Land Carriage of very great Quanties of Lead Cheese Butter and other Commodities which are now sent to Wilne-Ferry so it Delivers them from the Impositions and Hard Usage they find by reason of the Monoply There For there is but One Person that is the Owner of the Wharfe There and by a particular Priviledge carries Goods up and down the River and so may and does Exact what Price he pleases and is a Trader and Merchant as well as a Water-man and so himself may and does take the Advantage of a Good Market to the Prejudice of other Traders whose Goods he then neglects to Carry and they must let their Goods lie there until it be his Pleasure to Carry them down the River or give him his own Rates or send them to Nottingham which is Twelve Miles further by Land Carriage and the same Case up the River from Gainsburrow to Wilne Ferry All which would be Saved in Making the said River Darwent Navigable Note THE Undertakers do it at their own Charge and no Mills will be Pull'd down nor Destroy'd only Locks made in the Weares to Carry up the Barges nor no Fords Spoyl'd they being Deep enough already to Carry-up Flat-Boats and the Fords upon the River Darwent are Deeper than Those upon the River Trent which River is already Navigable Some Places that have Petition'd for the Navigation The High Sheriff Deputy-Lieutenants Grand Jury and Gentry of the County of Chester at their last General Quarter-Sessions held for the said County The Salt-makers Salt-Carriers and other Inhabitants of the Town of Namptwich and Middlewich have Petition'd That the River Darwent may be made Navigable The Mayor Aldermen Gentlemen Cheese-Factors Pot-makers and the Inhabitants of the Town of New-Castle in the County of Stafford have Petitioned for the same The Gentlemen Tradesmen Cheese-Factors and Inhabitants of the Market-Town of Uttoxiter in the said County of Stafford have likewise Petitioned for the same The Bayliffs Sheriffs Aldermen Justices of the Peace Gentlemen Tradesmen and Inhabitants of the City and County of Litchfield have likewise Petitioned for the same The Bayliffs Gentlemen Cloath-workers and Inhabitants of the Antient Burrough of Burton in the County of Stafford have likewise Petitioned for the same The Gentlemen Gun-smiths White-smiths Lock-smiths Cutlers Sword-slippers Nailors other Tradesmen of the Market-Town of Birmingham in the County of Warwick have Petition'd for the same The Gentlemen Tradesmen Freeholders and Inhabitants of the Market-Town of Atherson in the said County of VVarwick have likewise Petitioned for the same The Gentlemen Tradesmen and Inhabitants of the Market-Town of Ashby de la Zouch in the County of Leicester have likewise Petitioned for the same The Gentlemen Tradesmen Freeholders Farmers Inhabitants of the Market-Towns of Loughbrorough Kegworth in the said County of Leicester have Petitioned for the same The High-Sheriff Justi●●s of the Peace several Deputy Lieutenants at the last General Quarter Sessions held for the County of Derby have likewise Petitioned for the same The Knights Gentlem●● Tradesmen Lead-Merchants Miners Grovers Freeholders Farmers and others of the several Market and Fair Towns of Derby VVorks-worth Ashborne Crich and Duffe●●d and other Townships and Villages viz. Carson Middleton Cromford Hopton Cawlow Bradborn Kniveton And the Gentry and others of the Hundred of High-Peake in t●● County of Derby have like●ise Petition'd for the same 〈…〉 of London and Westminst●r have likewise Petition'd for the same