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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32878	A Short account of the progress of the mole at Tangier	Cholmley, Hugh, Sir, 1600-1657.	1680 (1680)	Wing C3925; ESTC R35572	5,897	8

greater than that which was Contracted for and in the same way advised Sir Hugh at his arrival at Tangier April following to proceed upon the repair of the Work The Work with Chests seemed to Sir Hugh superfluous because it required an outward one for protection of it and this was proposed to be made of Stones from 25 to 30 Tun each which by reason of the continual agitations of the Seas was at Tangier wholly unpracticable He therefore immediately applied himself to the repair of the Work by Artificial Pillars of about 100 Tun in bigness which suddenly secured about 50 Yards of the side that was most exposed and the end of the Work he secured by one of the great Chests he had sent from England About the Month of July this Year Sir Hugh received a Letter from the Lords Commissioners for the Affairs of Tangier taking notice of the ill reports they heard of the Mole and commanding the matter to be discussed in the presence of the Chief on the place and be proceeded in the way should be generally approved The chief Officers of the Garrison the best of the Citizens and Commanders of Ships being summoned the whole matter was discussed in the presence of his Excellency my Lord Howard now Duke of Norfolk the Earl of Middleton and the Mayor of the place Mr. Shere being also present who all unanimously concluded the present practice with Pillars was the most probable expedient for the repair and that if the same resisted the Storms of the approaching Winter the work ought to be carried on in the same way for the future and to this purpose signed a Letter to the Lords Commissioners under all their hands The Work continued to resist the Sea not only the following but many Winters so that the present practice gave satisfaction almost to every man excepting Sir Hugh himself who did then declare that the Work was such as he was able to carry on under the exceeding bad payments with which it laboured but such as could not be of lasting continuance And having for above two years managed the Work almost wholly without money upon his own credit was forced to return to England the beginning of the Year 1672. where the Wars made Arrears impossible to get beside that the trouble in soliciting for money and Accounting for the same caused such an Attendance as was incompatible with the Service at Tangier The Winter ending the Year 1674. brought news of some breaches at Tangier which Sir Hugh being much troubled to hear and assured within himself he knew to cure the Evil so as would take off all future complaints if the want of money and perplexities of an Exchequer Account could give him leave to go to Tangier offered unto the Lords in the Year 1674. certain proposals whereby he undertook both to repair the present Work and to carry it 100 Yards farther into the Sea by which means there would be a Harbour for Ships to ride safely in four Fathom at low Water and all this to be done in six Years for the Annual Establishment and though he could not give security for the whole Sum he offered to give from Year to Year security for the Money he should receive and to be punished or rewarded according to his yearly performance Mr. Shere taking advantage of these proposals framed others by which he undertook the Work at 10000 l. less in the whole and with great upright Chests maintaining that Figure best against the reflux Sea whereas by Sir Hugh's offers the same was to be done in solid Work and with Chests too yet so placed that the force of the Sea should be wholly dissipated by a slope and gradual interception of the Waters after the imitation of Nature that from this position doth in many places guard the Coast meerly by a bank of Sand. At the same time the Lord Privy Seal gave in other Propositions from certain Artists who offered to do the Work at a much cheaper rate than that proposed by Mr. Shere and to give 60000 l. security for their performance but Mr. Shere had the preference and without security is trusted with the issuing and paying of the Money with a reward of 2000 l. if he performs and nothing if he fails in the same Sir Hugh was happy in the greatest exigency of the Work and upon the most severe Enquiries to hit upon such expedients for the repair and advance as gave satisfaction to Mr. Shere and all upon the place without one dissenting man and this after Mr. Shere had been at Genoa and considered the way of their practice it had been no unusual thing for one that had been so many years trained in the Work under Sir Hugh to profit himself upon such defects as he might have observed Let us then take a view of the present state of the Work by which we shall see how far Mr. Shere hath exceeded or come come short of Sir Hugh his proposals or how near he hath hitherto complied with his own undertakings Sir Hugh having carried the Mole 500 Yards into the Sea within which there was about 18 foot depth at low Water was very desirous to leave the same compleat and finished that so it might have had comparison with any future Work He offered for one Years establishment to compleat the Repair and to finish the same as well on the inside as outward and to carry it farther 15 Yards into the Sea and to give security to do all this in so substantial a way as upon view and Tryal should be judged and found durable and in case of failure to pay back the whole Money or as much as should be judged the deficiency might amount unto But it was concluded that this Repair should also be undertaken by Mr. Shere who having now received 60000 l. and spent three years last Midsummer about the same we hear hath reparired the old Work but there was not at Midsummer one foot advanced into the Sea nor will the expence of another Year at his rate of Work scarce finish that which Sir Hugh offered to give security to do for one Years allowance yet Mr. Shere computes he hath every Year performed his complement of Work which was 30 Yards yearly in length until the whole were finished and possibly he may have done so according to the Numerical quantity of Cubical Yards contained in the Chests placed but certainly there is much more Work to secure the Foundations of his Chests and that according to his own Proposals than barely the placing and filling the same And what Mr. Shere hath done in the Years past will be best understood by the Progress of his future Work if in other three Years be can compleatly finish ninety Yards in length which is his undertaking then may it be concluded the past Work though it comes much short of what Sir Hugh offered security to perform is yet in proportion to his own Agreements And now that the Work done by Sir Hugh is compleatly finished and made durable by Mr. Shere himself Sir Hugh will allow he was mistaken in his measures if the future Work be done in proportion any thing cheaper but if it shall happen to cost the King much more than the past Work now repaired hath done Sir Hugh humbly conceives the way of building is nothing improved and that it had been better to have continued the Work in the old way and afterwards to have secured it as Mr. Shere hath done the past Work than to prosecute it in a way much more costly and by confession of himself no less durable Sir Hugh was for building with Chests as well as Mr. Shere he differed only in the way of placing these Chests which Sir Hugh proposed by several Rows one set within the other gradually breaking and intercepting the Sea Mr. Shere maintained and undertakes to do the Work by one solid Body and an upright side which from its own strength should secure the Work without any other outward Work or Defence whatever to this Sir Hugh's Objections were the difficulty of placing these Chests close one to the other as at Genoa and the danger of the Works falling when the Worm had consumed the Wood of the Chest By what hath been practised it is plain the Chests cannot be close joyned scarce nearer than four foot one to the other which occasions the supplying the vacancy with a small Chest which hath little substance and therefore must occasion many fears and for the great Chests they are made of such strong Plank and so bound with Timber that it is not possible for the Worm suddenly to destroy them and it is plainly demonstrable that if the Chests were filled with Sand they cannot possibly give way whilst the Wood Work continues unperished and therefore no tryal of the Work can be suddenly expected but if Mr. Shere be obliged to secure his great Chests by other lower Chests set outwards towards the Sea then whatever he may pretend his proceeding is directly according to Sir Hugh's Proposal only in the way of a far greater and needless expence by all the cost of the great Chest which is plainly demonstrable from the solidity of the old Work built without Chests and made durable by means of such an outward Work as in the foresaid case is presumed necessary to secure the present Work with great Chests It is not the Intention of this Paper to diminish ought from Mr. Shere whose diligence Sir Hugh heartily wishes may have all encouragement in so publick a Work but not being conscious by the Progress since he left the Work or by the future advance that it will appear he hath any ways mis-employed the Kings Money he thought it not unreasonable in order to his own Justification to set down this short Narrative of the whole Affair Written in the Year 1669. FINIS