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A48973 Rules and directions prescribed and made for the pitching and levelling the streets and lanes of the city of London, and liberties, for the more easie and convenient current and conveyance away of the waters thereof concluded and agreed on by the commissioners and surveyors hereunto authorized and appointed ... City of London (England). 1667 (1667) Wing L2851C; ESTC R41031 3,106 1

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Rules and Directions prescribed and made for the Pitching and Levelling the Streets and Lanes of the City of London and Liberties for the more easie and convenient Current and Conveyance away of the Waters thereof Concluded and Agreed on by the Commissioners and Surveyors hereunto Authorized and Appointed Viz. 1. TOwer-Dock in Thames-street is to be raised 3 foot At 147 foot upwards from Thames-street to be raised 2 foot 10 inches at the highest part in Tower-street against the middle of St. Allhallowes Barking Church-yard to be sunk 6 inches 2. Beer-Lane is to be raised at Thames-street 8 foot at 90 foot upwards 4 foot And to be abated at 192 foot upwards 3 inches and at Tower-street 6 ●nches 3. Water-Lane is to be raised at Thames-street 6 foot at 83 f. upwards nothing and to be abated at 128 f. upwards 1 f. 11 inch at Tower-street 3 ft 1● in i●… 4. Harp-Lane is to be raised in Thames-street 7 f. at 100 f. upwards 4 f. 7 inches and to be abated at 180 f. 1 f. 6. inches at 270 f. 6. f. 4 in at Towerstreet 6 f. 4 inches 5 Idle-Lane is to be raised in Thames-street 7 f. at 90 f. upwards 4 f. 2 inches and to be abated at 165 f. upwards 2 f. 3 inches at 262 f. 5. f. 10 inches in Tower-street 3 f. 6 in 6. St. Dunstans hill beginning at Idle-Lane is to be raised 4 f. 2 in at 76 f. upwards 3 f. 3 in at 126 f. 1 f. and to be abated at 226 f. 2 f. 1 inch at Tower-street 2 f. 1● inches 7. St. Mary-Hill is to be raised in Thames-street 5 f. at 87 f. upwards 2 f. 6 inches and to be abated at 187 f. 1 f. 8 in at 287. 5 f. 8 in at 387. 6 f. 4 in at little East-Cheap 3 ●●… 8. 8. Love-Lane is to be raised in Thames-street 4 foot at 100 f. upwards 6 foot at 200. two foot 3 inches and to be abated at 270 f. 3 f. 10 inches at 370 f. 8 f. at 470 f. 3 f. 5 in at Ea●t-cheap 3 f. 10 inches 9. Butolphs-Lane is to be raised at Thames-street 4 f. at 133 f. upwards 4 f. 5 in at 233 f. 10 in and to be abated at 333 f. 2 f. at 433 f. 2 f. at East-cheap 3 in 10. Pudding-Lane is to be raised in Thames-street 7 f. at 115 f. 5 f. 5 in at 212 f. 1 f. 8 in and to be abated at 300 f. ● f. ● in at 400 f. ● f. at 400 f. ● f. at East-cheap ● f. 9 in 11. N●w-F●sh-street-Hill is to be raised at Thames-street 2 f. at 80 f. upwards 2 f. and to be abated at 280 f. nothing at 380 f. 2 f. 9. in at East-cheap 4 f. 12. St. Michaels-Lane is to be raised in Thames street 7. f. at 80 f. upwards 6 f. 9 in at 280 f. 6 f. 6. in at 380 f. 2 f. 10 in and to be abated at 380 f. 8 in at East-cheap 5 in the Current of it is 13 in upon 20 f. 13. St. Martens-Lane is to be raised in Thames-street 6. f. at 103 f. 6 f. at 203 f. 4 f. 3. in at 303 f. 2 in and to be abated at 403 f. 2 f. 1 in at Cannon-street 2 f. 8 in 14. Green-Lettice and Ducks-field-Lanes are to be raised at Thames-street 3 f. at 135 f. 1 f. 10 in and abated at 235 f. 2 f. 11. in at 297 f. 4 f. 5. in at 397 f. 5 f. 5 in at Cannon street 10 in 15. St. Lawrence-Poutney-Lane is to be raised in Thames-street 4 f. at 157 f. 3 f. 7 in and abated at 261 f. 11 in at 361 f. 4 f. at Cannon-street 2 f. 8. in 16. Suffolk-Lane is to be raised in Thames-street 3 f. at 110 f. upward 2 in And to be abated at 190 f. 3 f. 6 in at 290 f. 7 f. 9. in at the entrance into Ducks-field-Lone 4 f. and 4 inches 17. ●ush-Lane is to be raised in Thames-street 3 f. at 103 f. 2 f. and to be abated at 203 f. 8 in at 303 f. 4. f. 4. in in Cannon-street nothing 18. Dowgate is to be raised in Thames-street 3 f. at 134 f. 1 f. 4. in and to be abated at 288 f. 1 f. 8. in the Current 1. upon 34. 19. Colledge-hill is to be raised at Thames-street 3 f. at 216 f. 3 in the Current 1. upon 35. 20. Garlick-hill is to be raised at Thames-street 3 f. at 216 f. 11 in the Current 1. upon 26. 21 Little Trinity-Lane is to be raised in Thames-street 4 f. at 75 f. 2 f. 11 in and to be abated at 150 f. 1 f. 4 in at 250 f. 3 f. at Great Trinity-Lane 1 f. 6 f. Current 1 upon 18. 22. Huggen-Lane is to be raised in Thames-street 4 f. at 63 f. 3 f. 1 in And abated at 153 f. 1 f. 10 in at 253 f. 5. 7. at Trinity-Lane ● f. Current upon 18½ 23. Bread-street-hill is to be raised in Thames-street 4 f. at 53 f. 3 f. at 153 f. 31 in and abated at 253 f. 2 f. 11. in at Trinity Lane end ● f. 6 in C●●●●nt 1. upon 20 24. Old Fish-street hill is to be raised at Thames-street 4 f. And abated at 100 f. 1 f. 7 in at 200 f. 4 f. 9 in at 300 f. 3 f. Current ● upon 16. 25. Lambeth-hill is to be raised in Thames-street 4 f. at 73 f. 11 in And to be abated at 173 f. 3 f 6 in At Old Fish-street 3 f. Current 1. upon 17½ 26. The Old Change is to be abated at Fish-street ● f. ● in At St. Austins Gate 1 ft. 9 in The Current 1 upon 68. 27. St. Pauls Chain or St. Bennets-hill is to be raised in Thames-street 8 f. at 100 f. 3 f. 14 in And to be abated at 190 f. 2 f. 5 in At 340 f. ● f. 3 in At 490. f. 1 f. In St. Pauls Church-yard as it was 28 Puddle-Dock is to be raised at Thames-street end 8 f. At 56 f. 6 f. 2 in At 196 f. 3 f. 3 in At 286 f. 3 f. 3 in At 386 f. 9 in And to be abated at Carter Lane 1 f. 7 in 29. Creed-Lane at Carter-Lane end is to be abated 3 f. and so gradually to Ludgate-hill 30. Ludgate hill is to be raised at Fleet-Bridge 6 f. at 200 f. upwards 8 f. 7. at 300 f. 5 f. 2½ At 400 f. 11 inch And to be abated at Ludgate 10 inch At Ave-Mary-Lane end 1 f. 8 inch At St. Pauls Church-yard 0 0. 31. Mark-Lane is to be abated at the ending in Tower-street 3 f. and so gradually to about 150 foot up the Lane 32. Rood-Lane is to be abated all the length of it I● Eastcheap 3 f. 8 inches in Fan-Church-street 1 foot The descent for the Current is 1 upon 41. 33. Grace-Church street is to be sunk at Eastcheap 4 foot at the Conduit 4 foot at Lumbard-street end 2 foot 10 inches The descent for the Current 1. upon 68. 34. Cannon-street is to be abated in Eastcheap at Grace-Church-street 4 foot the highest ground at 200 foot within the street near St. Michaels Lane end the other parts of it are to be sunk according to the endings of the streets before mentioned 35. Lumbard-street is to be abated at Grace-Church-street 2 f. 10. and so gradually to about 250 foot within the street where is to be the highest ground of it 36. Bread-street is to be abated at Trinity-Lane end 3 foot 6 inch at Watling-street 3 f. 2 inches and so gradually to Cheapside the Descent for its Current 1 upon 60. 37. Fryday-street is to be abated at Old Fish-street 3 foot at Watling-street 2 foot The Current 1. upon 70. 38. Watling-street is to be abated at the places mentioned 39. Cheapside about Woodstreet end is to be raised 2 foot and so gradually Eastward and Westward and that raising to end at the Old Change Westward and S●per-Lane Eastward 40 The Stocks to be abated 2 foot and that abatement to be gradually extended into Cornhil Lumbard-street Thredneedle-street and the Poultry and a little way into Wallbrook which about the South-end of the Church-yard of St. Mary Wool-Church is to be raised about 2 f●ot that the Current of the Water that way may be stopt and turned back toward the Stocks whence it is to be conveyed by a grated Sewer into the main Sewer not far distant AT a Meeting of the Commissioners and Surveyors appointed in pursuance of a Late Act of Parliament for Designing and setting out the Numbers and Places of all Common Sewers Dreyns and Vaults and the Order and manner of Pitching and Paving the Streets and Lanes of the City of London and Liberties thereof in the Guild-Hall London on Monday the Eighth day of July Anno Dom. 1667. And in the Nineteenth Year of the Reign of of our Soveraign Lord Charles the Second King of England c. Ordered That the Rules and Directions above prescribed be forthwith imprinted and dispersed in all convenient places within this City and Liberties and all Builders and other Persons that are or shall be herein concerned are enjoned hereby to have respect to the same Rules and Directions in their Buildings William Newman Clerk to the said Commissioners Printed for N. Brooke Stationer at the Angel in Gresham-Colledge in the second Court-yard leading from Bishopsgate-street 1667.