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A50268	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; Wing M1318_CANCELLED; ESTC R725	9,021	19

otherwise And it s well worthy to be considered of how great Relief this may be by the Portage of an Army as is above set forth Secondly I find that after the like manner to the like Traffique of Commodities when those tempestuous Seas for want of convenient Harbours upon the Borders of Lincolnshire bids denyal to all safe Trade there to the like great Imployment of Miners and other men and great enrichment of many a Merchant there by the like relief to His Majesty and Subjects in the charge of Portage as Occasion shall require an abatement of rates through divers Countryes thereby and the like Return of Impost upon all Commodities with the like amicable respect by an equal ballance of what each Commodity will bear by consent of Parlament to be setled upon His Majesty for the same as the River Avon of Bristol may the River Waveney be made Navigable by cutting of a convenient graft near Loppam Bridge sufficient for Navigation less then three Miles through grounds in their own Nature favorable for such an Enterprize into Little Ouse which carryes it self unto Linn in Norfolk and by Planting Sasses upon those Rivers as shall be advised by the prescribed directions any Commodities as occasion shall require may be hereby conveyed to the Use of Suffolk and Norfolk These two Rivers so dividing those two Countries from Yarmouth unto Linn whence there is an open passage already had to Boston with such Rivolets shooting out in Armes to Cambridge the Isle of Ely and other places provided by Nature to the convenient supply of those parts so as any thing may by that means be transported unto Boston and thence up the River Witham unto the City of Lincoln whence by opening the passage by neglect shut up betwixt that City and York Sea upon Trent heretofore made Navigable as Cambden reports by our Henry the first in a tender of his Subjects ease in his Progresses of State which he first begun a like transport to the immediate great service of the Counties of Nottingham Lincoln and Derby may any Commodities be transported there and thence for York and all the Countryes adjacent to those Mediterranean passages as the Maps and Histories of them shewing all these Intervening Rivers then by Nature free for Navigation unto York and other neighboring parts will best set forth in which perhaps a King hath sayled This way may be an interchange of all reliefs which any of the neighbouring Counties may supply each other with betwixt York and Yarmouth and Armies may occasionally with incredible advantage to themselves and Country as was said to be done by the same Prince be conveyed upon the same But the Country then being Strangers to the Trade of Coal a Commodity then and for several Generations fully prevented by the ready supply of Wood for fewel and all other Traffique of these Countries being much short of what now the same is This New-cut River of seven miles betwixt Lincolne and Torksea for want of Vse became sludg'd up and is grown into a Pasture which the onely Trade of Coales which it might be accommodated with from Nottingham-shire Derby-shire or Yorkshire were it now Navigable as then it was as well to the great relief of all the aforementioned Countryes as the enrichment of Your Majestie would now preserve And let these observations made on these two Rivers induce unto an Inquest and Ballance of other Rivers within this Island and bring those Parts into a flourishing Condition all sorts of Commodities from the Eastern parts of the World being equally distributed to the North and East of England as by the former design of opening the Rivers between London and Bristol to the Western parts is exemplifi'd in and from abroad communicated to the West and South Market-Townes Standing near or upon The LITTLE OWSE AND WAVENEY Brandon Thetford Dis Harleston Bungey Berkles Lestof Yarmouth Other Market-Towns within 10 Miles of these RIVERS From Beckles to Yarmouth 9 miles From Beckles to Lestof 8 miles From Bungey to Norwich 10 miles From Yarmouth to Norwich already a Navigable passage From Harlestone to Windham 9 miles From Dis to Windham 10 miles From Loppham to Higham 10 miles From Loppham to Harling 3 miles From Loppham to Bucknam 5 miles From Thetford to Watton 9 miles From Brandon to Swafham 10 miles From Beckles to Sowld 9 miles From Beckles to Harleston 7 miles From Bungey to Harleston 7 miles From Harleston to Framlingham 8 miles From Dis to Buddesdall 3 miles From Dis to Debenham 9 miles From Dis to Aye 3 miles From Loppham to VVolpet 9 miles From Loppham to Stow 9 miles From Loppham to Needham 10 miles From Loppham to Mildnal 6 miles All these Market Towns besides Innumerable Villages with many Gentlemens Houses of Note would so make use of these Two Rivers that a Marvelous Trade would be driven upon them and sailing out of the Little Owse the Boats enter into the Great Owse which already is Navigable to Lynne and to all the Towns within the Isle of Ely even up to Cambridg Designes worthy to be brought forth under the happy Government and Protection of Your Majesty FINIS

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 Augustissimi CAROLI Secundi Dei Gratia ANGLIAE SCOTIAE FRANCIAE ET HIBERNIAE REGIS Effigies HONY SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE A Hertochs Fecit 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 comp●●●●●n 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 this means cannot be had to the imployment of Your Majesties Subjects 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 an 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 be 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 each

other Fourthly This Island will hereby be the better fortified because of the Increase of Watermen the Walls thereof Fiftly By countenancing this Work Horse will be preserved for war for Merchandize or other purposes as Occasion may offer and the Wisdom of Your Majesty may think best to approve of Sixtly And what is well worthy of Observing the High-wayes hereby will be much preserved and become a very acceptable work to the Country which now notwithstanding their great cost is now a grievous Toil as well to man as beast being now so unnecessarily plowed up by Waggons of Prodigious Burthens which in this Island are dayly travelling And also to the insensible relief of this Island by many other wayes and means to be discovered by us as they shall be occasionally offered to us to understand And indeed the making of these Rivers Navigable may be brought to pass well nigh at as easy a cost and charge as the Fenning works have been though such great Works seemingly threaten great difficulties which may not be foreseen or known till felt Yet re vera the benefits are so innumerable and considerable which invites unto this Work in many places of this Island as at the very first sight will shew such hazards to be too inconsiderable to put a Baffle or occasion so Noble a Work so feasable and to so good purposes and high ends where they are well ballanced and managed by well pondered resolutions to be laid aside there being in this Island Sufficiency of all Sorts of Provisions for undertaking of the same which Prince or People either are or may be unquestionably furnished with being appointed of Council in all wayes requisite for such an enterprise of the choicest stamp and of hands and means in this so populous and great trading Nation so inexpressibly endless as must indisputably admit them by a presupposed accord of both to be interpreted in an easy capacity to act unto effect above the Level of such a work as this especially being English spirits who by their high Transactions almost of all kinds throughout the world are deemed to admit nothing difficult but by them with Ceremony to be brought to pass so it be but fit in Prudence to be undertaken and the more the difficulty and greatness of the Work is apparent let it be carried on with the greater Chearfulness as to the more atchievement of our Honours in the Success thereof after the manner of Atlas who is decypher'd to have carried the World upon his Shoulders without groaning Over and besides the Variety of great and constant charges which are to be expended in about the effecting and continued fruition of this great Improvement there will be pre-required a Purchase of or other agreement for such Mills and Parcels of Grounds from the Inheritours of them or from such as have the same by Lease or from both which intervenes in and upon such Channels or Lands which are so practicably capable amongst us by the Industry of man for good purpose of being cut opened cleansed and otherwise fitted for Navigation and shall best accommodate such design The Banks of such Channels where there must be Occasion for Towing of the Vessels to be Navigated with by the Assistance of Horse or man being so necessary an appurtenant to be made use of together with such River to be made Navigable as well as the frequent Occasions which may be expected to be had of the same Banks for the Cleansing and other amendments of such Rivers must obliege to agreements for the same wherein let the Seller departing from his right at anothers Will ever have advantage All which sort of Purchases or Agreements in every several place where the same are to be made and Sasses therein to be erected for the raising of the Water to a convenient depth for the Vessels to ride in by the particular skill and prudence of knowing Surveyors in such works be directed unto after a strict Geometrical Survey of the several intervening Platforms of grounds in and about every such several place where such work is to be wrought and Sasses to be planted as the Nature of the place which requires such purchase for such Improvement shall direct such Artist unto ever regarding though the Circlings windings of such Grafts for Rivers made or to be amended for Vessels to sail in shall thereby much enlarge the worke in measure I. As well to avoid the Injuring of the Neighboring Countryes by the overflowing of the Banks where such work is wrought as to wave the insupportable charge of fitting a passage through craggy Rocks for a shorter cut as a serviceable border occasionally to be made use of for man or beast to tow in And II. To make or appoint such graft as designed for the safe and firm erecting or planting of each such Since or Safe in as shall by such surveying Artist be judged requisite for such work to be winding in the form of a Bow Such a River as is so to be taught the Use of Navigation for diversion of the force of the Main stream from off such Sass in avoidance of rending up or breaking of the same which by the Natural force and current of the Stream especially in floods and Storms if such Sasses should be planted upon the most current Streams of the River which they are to be inservient unto must reasonably be expected And no other means ever was or is imaginable for the fitting of a River of great Streams in many places oft times too shallow for the draught of a Vessel of Convenient Burthen for good Use upon such River or for the apting of one River unto another by cutting a graft betwixt two Rivers at such a Level as the Water of the one shal run into the other so as a Vessel may sail or be towed from one of the Rivers unto the other at arbitrement except by such Sasses penning up and thereby raising the water for use as by so many stairs or steps as is or may be wanting to become of convenient depth for the transport of Vessels of so good Burthen as may be to good purpose fit for the producing of a Comerce by Navigation between any one Country of this Island and another Nor can the pulling up of Corn Mills the onely Obstruction as being of a more publick service then any other intervening good be a sufficient pretence to impede this Enterprize of making such Rivers Navigable as by consideration of their Service to the Country shall be found fit to made Navigable seing that the Necessary Office of such Mills may be performed at an easyer charge by Horse-mills by Wind-mills or by Mills termed River-Mills which in the Low-Countryes and some parts of Italy are familiarly made use of in flat bottomed Boates and thereby conveyed to Service as the Occasion of the Country may require from one place unto another which by reason of the Number and certainty of the Gryst of Corn at

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 fine 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 be 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 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 sorth 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