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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97356	A mediterranean passage by water, from London to Bristol, &c., and from Lynne to Yarmouth, and so consequently to the city of York for the great advancement of trade & traffique / by Francis Mathew, Esquire.	Mathew, Francis, Esquire.	1670 (1670)	Wing M1287H	9,005	22

Augustissimi CAROLI Secundi Dei Gratia ANGLIAE SCOTIAE FRANCIAE ET HIBERNIAE REGIS Effigie● HONY SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE A Hertochs Fecit To the Kings Most Excellent Majesty And the Honorable Houses of Parlament A MEDITERRANEAN Passage by water FROM LONDON to BRISTOL c. And from LYNNE to YARMOUTH And so consequently to the City of YORK for the great Advancement of TRADE TRAFFIQUE By Francis Mathew Esquire LONDON Printed by Thomas Newcomb MDCLXX TO THE Kings Most Excellent MAJESTY CHARLES II. By the Grace of GOD King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. And the Honorable Houses of PARLAMENT May it please Your most Gracious Majesty OBserving by traversing this Island that divers Rivers within the same may be moulded into such Form as will admit of Vessels of thirty Tun burden or upwards to sail in unto the great Relief of divers Countryes in this Island by means of the same at less then half the Rates now paid for Land carriage and near with as speedy return going both by day and night and to the Reward of Your Most Gracious Majesty if the same were once made so Navigable and considering at how easy a Charge as I humbly conceive the same may be brought to pass in comparison of the Advantages which may be reap'd thereby and the great encouragement given my endeavours of bringing this design to pass by divers Mayor Towns and Corporations of this Land that conceive a Relish of the Sweetness through the great Opinion onely they have of it upon serious Discourse had with me concerning the same a Catalogue whereof hath been presented to your Majesty as by the like means may be had from many more such Towns which have the like Invitations to the same I humbly presume upon this stock to become Importunate to Your most Excellent and Royal Majesty for the enterprize of and ready effecting this Work being an Undertaking so Heroick that 't is beyond the Level of any others to attempt and seeing that the longer it is delayed If your Majesty shall understand that the same may produce a Profit which I endeavour by this small Treatise to evince the longer is the Profit lost And after my Travels Industry and Studies in and about this great Improvement and with so great an Expence of my Estate in Your Majesties Royal Fathers Service by the Advance of a Troop of Horse and the accommodation of Three Sons at my own proper Charge in the same and otherwise besides the unhappy Consequence of Imprisonment Plunder and Sequestration in the same epidemical Misfortunes which all Your Loyal Subjects accompanied Your Majesty in and also a great Misfortune I sustained by Fire all which occasioned my Wife and self during those times to live at a great distance from each other and wholly to rely on our Friends in so much that at present I am neither able to compose my debts nor preserve my lawful Rights against undue Encombrances If Your Majesty shall be pleased to promote this Work and bring it to effect within my remnant of daies by Your Majesties gracious favour without other Expence then what will carry along with it an advantage to Your Majesty Your Majesty may relieve me with what may seem so just as a Recompence due unto me for my Endeavours about the same and may give me Leisure after the distractions I now sustain with great alacrity for the discharge of so good an Office as the Obteining of Your Majesty to effect a work of so great a Benefit to my Country to enjoy the fruits of my Labours and express my self Your MAJESTIES Most obsequious faithful and most obedient Subject and Servant Francis Mathew The Opening of RIVERS FOR Navigation THough there be many more Obstructions and Difficulties to be met with in the making of the Riverrs within this Island Navigable then are familiarly in the Flat Netherlands of Holland and the rest of the United Provinces of Belgium whose benefit may seem to allure us to the like Industry nevertheless Englands fair Valleyes and rich Inlets through which many noble Rivers insinuate themseves might with the Imitation of our ingenious Neighbours be made in many places docible of Navigation to the inestimable comfort ease and benefit of the Subject wherefore in all Humility I make this my most Humble Address unto Your Most Renowned and Emperial Majesty And shew That yet such an Enterprize in several places of this Island may with advantage be effected by divers and sundry wayes of no less Importance to the whole Nation First Of a Wonderful Improvement to much Trade and great relief to the Land and most remarkably to be perceived by the supply of many places with the great Benefit of Coal which without out this means cannot be had to the imployment of Your Majesties Subject in Mining and otherwise about the same and also the advance of many from Low degree becoming Merchants in the same by that sure Trade of taking in their Commodities at easy rates ready returnes and certain gaines the Essentials of all Improvements therein they thereby becoming ranked in the highest Capacities to serve their King and Countrey and Excellent President whereof is to be seen in such of the Merchants of Newcastle who have traded in that Commodity alone at much greater hazard delay and charge than in such Mediterranean Rivers as is by this designed becoming Navigable may be effectually brought to pass Secondly To the great Ease of the Subject for the Rivers so designed being Navigable thereby with lesser Charge with fewer hands greater Transportations from place to place and in shorter time may be made Armies in time of Warre in their primest Strength by such Transport fit for ready Service which the hazardous Condition of a Souldiers Calling is dayly to expect may safely silently and without harrass of the Country in their goods and Carriages be thus conveyed Thirdly Hereby a great Increase of His Majesties Revenue may be established upon the Crown from such a Publick Work which the happy experience His Majesty hath had of the New-Castle Trade of Coal were there no other Commodity then Coal to be transported in such Rivers may invite him to and which may be setled with so great Chearfulness of the Subject as that a great abatement of the Rates of the Commodities traffique'd in may he had thereby notwithstanding such imposition for His Majesty upon the same to the perpetual establishment of the Impost as a just return to him for so Publique a good Work to continue to him as one Diadem of his Crown for ever The Publique proportionably enjoying the benefit thereof accordingly By which mutual returnes unto each other His Majsty and Subjects are naturally interwoven in the Preservation of each other According to the Maxim That by what the People by the same the Government must grow vice versa each of them in their several wayes and powers being to support

appointed times to be had wrought by the Water-mills now in use amongst us the advantage of which is little more then a slight kind of Ceremony to man an unfit Consideration to lay aside a real Improvement as is this of making apt Rivers in the aptest places Navigable and the Right of Soaks belonging to the Inheritours of such Mills as are so to be removed are preadmitted to be retaliated for with good advantage to the Owner but if this great Consumption of Timber be still permitted there will not be enough to build either Water-mill or Wind-mill Yet if any Owner be of so morose a Spirit as to bid a Contradiction to the worlds and his own advantage for his supposed unquestionable Vineyards sake It s reasonably to be understood a duty incumbent upon His Majesty and Parlament in such a case as Guardian to all Subjects goods and rights as his Catholique Majesty in his Dominions of Spain takes charge of all the Substance and affaires of persons as are Lunatiques governing their affairs sine sine modo mensura that His Majesty and Parlament may dispose of the Estates of such persons will they nill they as to the Publique shall seem best without the concurrence of them In every place where the making of a River Navigable is designed to be enterprized there is seriously to be considered what improvement may most probably accrew to the Land or any part of the Land thereby viz. what charge may be saved and what profit may by means thereof be had which else could not be had and a conference of this must be had with what must be expended for effecting of such work a computation sufficiently easy unto abundant satisfaction to be made for where amongst other services such Rivers shall become subservient to some certain great Staple Trade the Profit both to King and Subject being certain to be alwayes great admitting the ordinary Providence of Heavens influence in the preserving of such Trade And the the charge being but once and that to be probably effected by one years profit accrewable by such River or well near thereabouts reasonably to be computed by the necessary and great Trade of Coales c. unquestionably to be concluded upon to be had upon such River by the Countryes great want of fuell bordering upon the same all other Trades to be had upon such Rivers bearing their proper share in the assistance of it and considering further that such works are alwayes to be wrought where the grounds which are to be so cut through are to be found or admitted to be so favorable in their Scite and nature to the Work as that of themselves they much lean to the doing of the same whereby by the charge must be esteemed moderate and such River already had or to be made at or well nigh so moderate rates must primo intuitu be deemed properly worthy to be so fitted for Navigation all other constant immergent charges of preserving the River once made so Navigable being too Inconsiderable to out-weigh the Scales in this case By this Lesbian Rule I have surveyed examined and found divers Rivers within this Island in apt places for such Trade practicable with ease to be made thus Navigable and more particularly First That the River Avon of Bristol may be by the prescribed means of Art charge and power upon the premised prudent Ballance of Charge and Profit be made Navigable from Bristol to Calne or to Mamsbury in Wiltshire and by cutting a Graft of five Miles or thereabout in length onely through a ground which I found favorable by Nature for such purpose the same River may take its Journey for the same use planting Sasses also aptly upon the same from Mamesbury to Leshlade in Oxfordshire and there salute the River Isis already Navigable which so delivers it self into the Thames and bring the Trade of Ireland the Rich fruits of Cornwall Devon and Sommerset Mendip Hills and Wales and any other Portage as well as of the Intervening Countryes to the Cittyes of Bristol and London mentioned and back again at will by so much a shorter and safer cut as will appear more plainly by divers Maps and other printed Papers set forth at my own particular charge and so much lesser charge of Portage then else can be one boat upon the same carrying as much as an hundred horse as must exceedingly abate the price by lessening the Charges of the Commodities of the same and more particularly bring an Immeasurable Trade of Coales from Wales and Bristol to the imploying of many thousand Subjects in Mines and also about the River and the great advance of many a man by Merchandize in and about the same to the incredible Relief of the bordering Countryes of Wiltshire Glocestershire Oxfordshire and others lying on or near the same as far as His Majesty shall from time to time think meet in prudence to admit of ever regarding the Preserve of His Newcastle Trade the great support of His Navy which by the Supplyes of the aforementioned Countryes from Bristol will not be endamaged This proposed Trade of Coal not clashing with the Newcastle Trade at all so much more may His Maj●sties Coffers be enriched then now they are as well as by other Imposts by an Impost upon this Trade of Coales in the River Avon of Bristol becoming Navigable as is set forth Insensible to those Countryes which are to be supplyed by the same being they now pay thrice the rates for Coal to what the same may be afforded at by the Merchant notwithstanding his discharge of such great Impost upon the same and all other Commodities may be commerced in upon this River at half the Charge of what is paid for Land carriage or Portage much to the Subjects ease and happiness which also may afford a very considerable Return to His Majesty for the same to be squared out when the River shall become thus Navigable as His Majesty and Parlament by Ballance of the Gain of Portage in each particular Commodity to be thereby had above what is now had shall deem most just to both And its worthy to be considered how great a relief of Coal in times of Warr at Sea the City of LONDON may enjoy by this Atchievement Let the Cities incredible want of Coal near to the hazard of an Insurrection in our late Conflicts with the Dutch and the great Ingredient the Consideration of this want was of to the Necessary contracting of that Speedy Peace with them convince us Were my Advises of Sufficient Interest to take place at the Helme no earlier enterprize should be made then this of making Rivers Navigable within this Island as is above set forth in Order to a secure Relief of this most famous City of LONDON with all sorts of Commodities as Timber Stone Lead Iron and all other Materials for reedifying the same by a prudent Care upon Occasion of such distress to be had or threatned by War or