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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80088	To the Honourable the Commons of England, in Parliament assembled. A proposal for preventing the farther decay of our harbours: / humbly offer'd, by Robert Colepepyr, Gent.	Colepepyr, Robert.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1689 (1689)	Wing C5061; ESTC R224645	6,787	12

your Barrs and Bays may have an increase of Sand and that in proportion to the abatement of water made by such Imbankments And I presume the damage these Imbankments will do to Barrs and Bays is far more considerable than the benefit of deepning your indraught Channels because good entrances into Harbours tend most to the encrease and preservation of Seamen and Merchandize And when a Ship finds sufficient water at a good distance from the Sea then she can hardly want till she comes to the Barr or Bay. But if such want of Water be found then smaller Craft may Navigate in the Channels I believe the Salt Indraughts do carry more Sand from Barrs and Bays than Land-waters for these two Reasons First because the Land-waters bear but a small proportion with the Salt. And secondly because the Tides of flood run strongest and the Sands that lie firm and close during the Ebbs are yet by the flowing waters made very loose and hollow wherefore I think flowing Waters do most stir the Sand on the Barrs and in the Bays and leaves it in motion to pass out to Sea in the Ebbs. And thus I hope I have shewn that the imbankments of those Indraughts do abate the influx and efflux of your Water and encrease your Sands Yet to make this point more plain I pray leave to cite the four following Presidents First That many years since a River called the Rother did pass thro' Rumney-Marsh in Kent and near its issuing into the Sea anciently made a Haven and Bay but the Sea laid more Sand in the mouth of this Haven than its indraught of salt Water and fresh could remove and thereby shutting out the salt Water and keeping the fresh in it caused the latter to swell back in its own Channel about six Mile and there the fresh Water broke over its bounds and went no more through Rumney-Marsh There are many thousand Acres of imbanked Land under high-water mark in that Marsh and lying on the sides of that Channel and Haven and whilst un-imbanked the flowing water must drown the same before it ebbed in the Haven Therefore before Imbankments those Lands were a large Indraught or Bason to that Haven and Bay. And if those Lands were imbanked from the Rother's Channel and Haven before they were so choaked up then we have good reason to believe those Imbankments choaked up the same And that those Imbankments did precede that Sand-stop seems clear from the two following Causes First For that in an ancient Mapp of Rumny-Marsh the Haven is plotted and in this plott are these words The old decayed Haven of Rumney now swerved up and the walls broken and decayed and no Man would Imbank Land from a Haven after 't was left both by salt and fresh water I can direct to the Original Mapp or shew a Copy thereof But least the Authority of that Mapp should be questioned I will secondly offer an argument from the natural tendency of Water viz. That the lower end of that Channel was more pressed with fresh water after that stop than the parts six Miles higher could be and all bounds of that Channel were equally strong if the Lands were not imbanked Therefore if no Banks had been in the way save that in the Havens month then the Freshes had swelled out at the lower end of their Channel and there made a new Out-fall by the old one Yet so it did not happen but the Sea-barr and Channels-banks seem to force this water back 'till it found a low or weak part of the Bank. I have an old Original Mapp shewing the upper end of the Rother and down to its falling into Rumny-Marsh And in the same Information is given where nine Heads of several Rivers rise and that they all served Mills or Iron-Works and after fall into the Rother Hereby this Honourable House may see that much Land-water must pass through that Channel into the Sea from whence with the vast Indraught this Haven had 't is probable it might be a Royal Port. Yet these Rivers make but a very small fresh water in Summer and such as might easily be overcome and stopped in by Sand in Summer Storms for the Haven must be very much too wide for its Indraught after Rumny-Marsh was Imbanked Thus much on this first President which I hope is well proved Secondly After the destruction of Rumny Haven the River Rother did pass through Rye Harbour in Sussex and in 1623 the then Commissioners of Sewers for the Rother did make a Dam cross that River with Sluces therein to let out the fresh Water and keep out the Salt and this stop lying but six or seven Miles from the Sea therefore the same did damnifie the Harbour and Bay of Rye as well by abatement of Efflux of Land Waters as by lessening the Seas indraught and these Sluces also caused so much Sullage to rest without them that several Thousand Acres of Land within were thereby drowned with fresh Water In 1635. 2000 Acres of Marsh lying below that stop were lay'd open to the Sea and used as an Indraught or Bason to scower the Land drain and this Indraught so far mended the Influx and Efflux That soon after a Ship of 700 Tuns did ride at low water in Rye Harbour But some Years since this Indraught and some green Salts began to be imbanked and as the Seas Indraught was lessening by many imbankments the Harbour and Bay did decay gradually and visibly as those imbankments were brought to Perfection insomuch that in the place where the Ship did ride at low Water there the Sands now ly dry 'till half Flood yet 't is well known Rye was the best Tide-Harbour between the Downs and Portsmouth into which good Ships could come from half Flood to half Ebb but now that Coast affords no shelter to Ships of Burthen To prove the Stop made in 1623 and the Indraught in 1635 with their Consequences above Rye Harbour for Vouchers I can direct to Records of Sewers and for the Ships riding in Rye Harbour with the after abatement of Water there I have the copy of a Certificate under the Seal of that Corporation and can inform where the Original may be seen I believe the Harbour and Bay of Rye have lost three parts in four of their Indraught in manner as before therefore the want of Influx and Efflux may well cause Sand to stay there and make them decay more visibly and faster than most other Harbours and Bays and although in some Bays the mischief done by Imbankments may not yet be perceived yet the same leiseurly abatements of Water there may have an ill Consequence on this Kingdom by obliging it to Ships that draw less Water while neighbouring Nations build larger Ships of War And so much on this second President Thirdly Least the Service my self and other Men allow to Imbankments in the parts wherever they are made should be ill applyed and brought as an Argument to clear