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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44350	An account of several new inventions and improvements now necessary for England, in a discourse by way of letter to the Earl of Marlborough, relating to building of our English shipping, planting of oaken timber in the forrests, apportioning of publick taxes, the conservacy of all our royal rivers, in particular that of the Thames, the surveys of the Thames, &c. : Herewith is also published at large The proceedings relating to mill'd-lead-sheathing, and the excellency and cheapness of mill'd-Lead in preference to cast sheet-lead for all other purposes whatsoever. : Also A treatise of naval philosophy, / written by Sir Will. Petty. ; The whole is submitted to the consideration of our English patriots in Parliament assembled.	T. H. (Thomas Hale); Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687. A treatise of naval philosophy.	1691 (1691)	Wing H265; ESTC R28685	111,893	310

bestow'd on them that is to say on the poor Seamen whom that excellent Corporation relieves thereby The Chainage of Ships belongs to the Admiral and the right of the Ferriage over all Rivers between the first Bridges and the Sea is a Perquisite of Admiralty and the right thereof is inherent in the Office of the Admiral and 't is notorious that the Right of the Ballastage in all the other Royal Rivers of England belongs to the Admiral as well as in the River of Thames There is the Perquisite of Anchorage in the Thames as well as elsewhere belonging to the Admiral as are likewise many other Perquisites and that are enumerated in the Admiral 's Patent Nor can any Right belonging to the Admiral be pass'd by the Crown under the Great Seal to any one but by the Admiral 's Warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor general To the Lord Mayor as Water-bayly and Conservator of the River of Thames several Fees and Profits belong And to that Office of Conservator belongs the Office of Measuring Coals Grain Fruit in the Port of London with the Fees belonging to it and the Fines imposed in his Court of Conservacy or by the Commissioners of Sewers for Misdemeanors that concern the River and other Perquisites and in the which the Admirals have long ceased to intermeddle and not without cause because of the great Charge incident to the Lord Mayor's Conservacy of the River and particularly in matters relating to the Fishery and the charge that attends the traversing Indictments and removing them to the Kings-Bench as likewise the Charge of suing out Scire Facias ' es to vacate the Grants of particular Persons that entrench on the rights of the Lord Mayor's Conservacy and which Charge they have often supported without being therein assisted by the Lord Admirals I might instance in many passages in the reigns of our Kings long ago concerning the Lord Mayor's applying to the Government when private Courtiers had surreptitiously obtain'd Patents that interloped in the Conservacy of the River as for example Edward the 4 th having made a Grant to the Earl of Pembroke for setting up a Weare in the River of Thames and the Lord Mayor applying to the King about it obtain'd a Scire Facias to vacate that Grant and vigorously prosecuted the vacating thereof to effect And how in the two last Reigns several Lord Mayors with great Industry and Charge prosecuted the vacating of Patents that they judged entrenching on the Conservacy that both by Charter and Prescription belong'd to them is known to every one Nor will the unwearied diligence of those Patriotly Lord Mayors Sir William Pritchard Sir Henry Tulse Sir James Smith Sir Robert Jefferys Sir John Peak in thus shewing their Zeal for the Conservacy of the River be ever forgot while that City keeps Records And they are strangers to the Character of the present Lord Mayor both for integrity and prudence in Political Conduct and his Zeal for maintaining the known Rights of the City who shall think that if he had been at the Helm of them Government of the City when they were he would not have steer'd the same Course as the most active of them did and that with such a Courage as is worthy the high Sphere of Magistracy he moves in A Coward saith one cannot be a good Christian much less a good Magistrate Solomon 's Throne of Ivory was supported by Lyons Innocency and Integrity cannot be preserved in Magistracy without Courage Magistrates are great Blessings Modo audeant quae sentiunt if they dare do their Conscience Me quae te peperi ne Cesses Thorna tueri was the ancient Inscription of the Bridge-house Seal and which may give an occasional hint to any Citizen of London advanced to Authority and Opulency therein to wish well to the defence of that River that hath so long bred and preserv'd the Riches of that City I am here led to observe how that River being pester'd by various Annoyances in the Reign of Henry the 8 th and the Lord Mayor's Offices being made uneasie and hinder'd in the Conservacy of the River the City apply'd to the King for a Proclamation who accordingly issued out one in the 34th Year of his Reign strictly requiring That none should presume to resist or deny or impugne the Lord Mayor or his Deputies in doing or executing any thing that might conduce to the Conservacy of the River c. And methinks the Customary yearly Solemnity of the New Lord Mayor's attended with all the City Companies in their Barges on the Thames and there on that River above Bridge having their first Scene of Triumph as they are going to Westminster-Hall to be sworn should give them occasion to think often of that Rivers preservation in the following part of the Year I am here led to call to mind a fatal danger that that River above Bridge escaped in the Reign of the late King when some were so hardy as to offer him a Proposition and in the way of a Project to enlarge his Revenue by straitning the River and by building another Street between the high and low-water-mark from the Bridge to White-Hall But thô so great a straitning of the River there would not have been so prejudicial to the publick as lesser straitnings of it below bridge where the great Scene of Navigation lyes yet his Majesty with great judgment gave a peremptory denyal to the Proposition for this particular reason namely that such an alteration in the River might perhaps produce an alteration in the Tide of Flood and be the cause of its not flowing so many hours as it doth and which effect too he thought the building of a Bridge at Lambeth a Project that some offer'd to his Consideration might produce it being obvious that the Obstacle the course of the Tide meets with by London bridge doth much occasion the Tide of Flood being the shorter And if great Care had not been taken by the Trinity-house in the government of their Ballast-Lighters and ordering them not to draw up Ballast too near the Banks of the River there would have been great danger of another accident that might have curtail'd the Tide of Flood I mean by their coming nearer to the shoar than the safety of the great Level by Limehouse will admit In the same time that they can draw up one Tun of Ballast in deep Water they may draw up three near the shoar A breach in that Level did within these few Years cost the Proprietors 25000 l. a third part of the value of the Land And if a new greater breach came perhaps it would not be repairable and possibly cause the Thames not to flow up so far as it did and yet doth But any thing of this Nature we may well hope will be prevented by the excellent Management of the Ballast-Office by the industry of that Virtuous and Prudent Lady the Lady Brooks who hath the Lease thereof from the Trinity-house and