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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39393	Encouragements to builders and planters of Little Yarmouth		1668 (1668)	Wing E725; ESTC R215004	3,945	1

Encouragements to Builders and Planters OF LITTLE YARMOUTH What Priviledges the Town of Little Yarmouth hath formerly enjoyed THe Town of Little Yarmouth hath formerly enjoyed the priviledges of lading and unlading Herrings and other Merchandize and of exporting and importing Goods of all sorts in Vessels of their own for many years formerly whereby it came to be in a very flourishing condition From what cause it is faln into Decay The Town of Great Yarmouth having by their much greater power procured several Grants and Letters-Patents from the Kings and Queens of this Nation upon many plausible and specious pretences whereby they appropriated to themselves and those who are Free-men of Great Yarmouth the Monopoly of lading and unlading all sorts of Merchandize within seven miles of Great Yarmouth whereby the Town of Little Yarmouth were necessitated to forsake their habitations for want of imployment whereby the said Town in a short time fell into decay and became almost forsaken by the Inhabitants By what Authority the Town of Little Yarmouth hath its former Rights and Priviledges restored and enlarged The Town of Little Yarmouth is not only incorporated with the Town of Great Yarmouth to partake and enjoy equal Priviledges with them by an Act of Parliament made in the sixteenth and seventeenth year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord King Charles the Second Entituled An Act for setling of differences between the Towns of Great and Little Yarmouth touching the lading and unlading Herrings and other Merchandize but also by Letters-Patents from the King bearing date the tenth of February in the twentieth year of this present King and hath as well by the said Act as Letters-Patents this priviledge above any other Corporation in England that the Inhabitants of this place from their first habitation are intituled to all the priviledges of it as much as if they had purchased their Freedome for which in Great Yarmouth men pay thirty forty fifty pounds or had served an Apprenticeship The manner of the Scituation of Great Yarmouth and of its Trade and Buildings Within a mile on the East of the Town lies the Main Ocean on the North-west is the River called Brayden where three Rivers Wavenee which parts the Counties of Norfolk and Suffolk Yare which runs through the City of Norwi● the 〈◊〉 which comes from the North-parts of Norfolk meet from whence this River falls East and by South and before it runs into the Sea continues its course on the Key of Yarmouth By these three Rivers to the Landward all sorts of the growths and Manufactures of these Countries are with great ease and little charge brought to Yarmouth And up these streams the Town of Yarmouth with like ease and small charge furnishes those Countries with all sorts of Forreign and Domestick Commodities and this done with much facility by reason the Flux of the Sea doth make the Current into the Country almost equal with the Current out of the Country As the Town is naturally seated with these advantages for the Trade of these Countries above any other of the Eastern Coast so it lies in the same Latitude as Amsterdam and by consequence more convenient then any other Town on the Eastern Coast of England for the trade of the Vnited Netherlands and Flanders and almost equal with Hull and Newcastle for the trade of Hambrough the Haunce-Towns the Baltick and Norway It is moreover inriched above any Town in England or perhaps in the world with a yearly Revenue of the Fishing-trade which if it were mannaged and improved to the best advantage might equallize if not be superiour to the Dutch Fishing-trade But this for many years by reason of this Towns appropriating this trade to a few hands hath both rendred this trade useless to the rest of this Nation besides the Free-men of Yarmouth who have not Vessels enough to maintain the same but hath also given the Dutch an opportunity of being the greatest gainers by it who have for many years last past brought over their Busses and other Fishing Vessels and have taken the Herrings on this Coast and brought the same into Yarmouth and sold the same to them for ready money which money might as well have been got by our selves and kept at home Though this place be thus naturally and advantagiously seated for trade both abroad and at home yet it is no way conveniently built for it for the back-part thereof is so narrowly built in Lanes or Rows as no access can be made to it but by Barrows used no where in England but in this place and for this reason only besides the houses are built so low as also being streightned for Ware-house-room they cannot receive such quantities of Merchandize as their trades are capable of And though the houses to the Key are fair and well built yet they are not of sufficient capacity to entertain the fourth part of such Merchants as might trade upon the account of this Harbour neither have they the conveniencies of fresh water Notwithstanding which by reason of the advantages aforesaid they have and do flourish and prosper in trade above any other Town in England but London and Bristow which they are able to do upon their own account without any dependency of any other place The Scituation of Little Yarmouth The Town of Little Yarmouth lies South and by West of Great Yarmouth on Suffolk side upon the same River opposite to the said Town and so is equally capable of all Forreign and Domestick trade as Great Yarmouth and capable of a farther improvement in these following particulars 1. That the building may be built more commodious and convenient for trade 2. Secondly These buildings may be continued further upon that River then they can be in Great Yarmouth side 3. The Channel runs deeper on this side then it doth on the other 4. It hath the conveniency of fresh water 5. The Priviledges are greater then the Town of Great Yarmouth for if any Proprietor in any house already built or to be built shall be willing to let out his house to any under-Tenant he shall sooner have a Chapman for his house then those of Great Yarmouth side such Tenant being by his Tenure a Free-man of Great Yarmouth as well as Little Yarmouth This Town to be built is contrived with all imaginable conveniencies as to the Key for lading and unlading Merchandize convenient Warehouse-room Storehouses and Cellerage or any other conveniences whatsoever The Proprietors of the said grounds of Little Yarmouth do hereby publish and declare these Proposals following to such as shall accept thereof in convenient time Proposals as to the houses which front the Key and their conveniencies THat such Undertakers may have from twenty to eighty foot front to the Key or more or less as will suit his or their occasions the Key being to be fifty foot wide such Undertakers paying for every foot which he hath front two shillings six pence per foot per annum every foot