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A38788 Fumifugium, or, The inconveniencie of the aer and smoak of London dissipated together with some remedies humbly proposed / by J.E. esq. to His Sacred Majestie, and to the Parliament now assembled. Evelyn, John, 1620-1706. 1661 (1661) Wing E3489; ESTC R31456 23,225 39

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know no inconveniency if even some of them were proscrib'd as far as any fresh-waters are found dissemboguing into the Thames since the commodiousnesse of the passage may bring up their Wares with so great ease He that considers what quantities are transported from Dantzick Lubeck Hamborough and other remote places into Holland cannot think this an unreasonable proposition But if their fondnesse to be nearer London procure indulgence for some of them The Town of Bowe in regard of its s●ituation from our continual Winds may serve for the expedient and a partial Cure But the rest of those banish'd to the utmost extreme propounded on the River At least by this means Thousands of able Watermen may be employed in bringing Commodities vnto the City to certain Magazines Wharfs commodiously situated to dispense them by Carrs or rather Sleds into the several parts of the Town all which may be effected with much facility and small expense but with such Conveniency and Benefit to the Inhabitants otherwise as were altogether inestimable and therefore to be va●lu'd beyond all other trifling objections of sordid and avaricious persons whatsoever Nor indeed could there at all the lest detriment ensue upon this Reformation since the Places and Houses deserted which commonly take up a great space of Ground might be converted into Tenements and some of them into Noble Houses for use and pleasure respecting the Thames to their no small advantage Add to this that it would be a means to prevent the danger of Fireing those sad Calamities for the most part proceeding from some Accident or other which takes beginning from places where such great and exorbitant Fires are perpetually kept going Not were this a thing yet so extravagant and without all Presidous of former times since even the Smoake and burning of lesse foetid and noxious Fuell produc'd an inconvenience so universal in some Countries of this Nation Not to mention the complaint which I have heard some parts even of France it self lying South-west of England did formerly make of being infested with Smoakes driven from out Maritime Coasts which injur'd their Vines in Flower that it was thought expedient an Act of Parliament should be made purposely to reform it in the seventh year of the Reign of His Majesties Grandfather that now is which to take off all prejudice I shall here recite as it remains upon Record Anno vij Iacobi Regis An Act against burning of Ling and Heath and other Moor-burning in the Countries of Yorke Durham Northumberland Cumberland Westmerland Lancaster Darbie Nottingham Leicester at unseasonable times of the year WHereas many Inconveniencies are observed to happen in divers Counties of this Realm by Moore-burnings and by raising of Fires in Moorish grounds and Mountanious Countries for burning of Ling Heath Hather Furres Gorsse Turffe Fearn Whinnes Broom and the like in the Spring time and Summer-Times For as much as thereby happeneth yearly a great destruction of the Brood of Wild-fowle and Moore-game and by the multitude of grosse vapours and Clouds arising from those great fires the Aer is so distemper'd and such unseasonable and unnatural storms are ingendred as that the Corn and the Fruites of the Earth are thereby in divers places blasted and greatly hindered in their due course of ripening and reaping As also for that sometimes it hath happened that by the violence of those Fires driven with the Wind great Fields of Corn growing have been consumed and Meadows spoyl'd to the great hurt and dammage of His Majesties Subjects which Moor-burnings neverthelesse may be used and practised at some other convenient times without such eminent danger or prejudice Be it therefore Enacted by our Soveraign Lord the Kings most excellent Majesty with the assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and of the Commons in this Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That from and after the last day of July next ensuing the end of this present Session of Parliament it shall not be lawful for any Person of Persons whatsoever in the Months of April May June July August and September nor in any of them to raise kindle or begin or to cause or practise to be raised kindled or begun any Fires or Moor-burnings in the said Counties of York Durham Northumberland Cumberland Westmorland Lancaster Darby Nottingham and Leicester or in any of them for burning of Ling Heath Hather Furs Gorsse Turffes Fearne VVhinnes Broome or the like neither to assist further nourish or continue the same And that all and every Person and Persons which from and after the said last day of July shall offend contrary to the true intent and meaning of this Statute the same offence being proved by contession of the Party or by the Testimonies of two sufficient Witnesses upon Oath before one or more Iustices of the Peace of the same County City or Tow Corporate where the offence shall be committed or the Person or Persons offending apprehended shall be by the said Iustice or Iustices of the peace for every such offence committed to the Common Goale of the County City or Tow Corporate where the Offence shall be committed or the person or persons apprehended there to remain for the space of one Month without Bail or Main-prise And further be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that all and every person and persons which shall be so convicted and imprisoned as aforesaid shall not be enlarged from their said Imprisonment but shall there remain after the said Month is expired without Bail or Main-prise untill such time as every such Offendor respectively shall pay or cause to be paid to the Church-Wardens or unto the Overseers of the poor of the Parish or place where the same Offence shall be committed or the Offender or Offenders apprehended or unto some of them to the use of the poor of the said parish or place where the same Offence shall be committed the Summe of Twenty Shillings for every such Offence committed or done contrary no this Act. This Act to continue until the end of the first Session of the next Parliament So far the Act. And here you see was care taken for the Fowl and the Game as well as for the Fruits Corn and Grasse which were universally incommoded by these unwholsome vapours that distempered the Ae See Hipp. de Flatibus Gal. l. Ctb. boni mali succi instancing in Corn and Water poyson'd by ill Aer to the very raising of Storms and sempests upon which a Philosopher might amply discourse And if such care was taken for the Country where the more Acreall parts predominate and are in comparison free how much greater ought there to be for the City where are such Multitudes of Inhabitants concern'd And surely it was so of old when to object all that can be replied against it even for the very Service of God the Sacrifices were to be burnt without the Camp amongst the Iews as of old amongst the Romans Hominem