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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67738	England's improvement by sea and land To out-do the Dutch without fighting, to pay debts without moneys, to set at work all the poor of England with the growth of our own lands. To prevent unnecessary suits in law; with the benefit of a voluntary register. Directions where vast quantities of timber are to be had for the building of ships; with the advantage of making the great rivers of England navigable. Rules to prevent fires in London, and other great cities; with directions how the several companies of handicraftsmen in London may always have cheap bread and drink. By Andrew Yarranton, Gent.	Yarranton, Andrew, 1616-1684.	1677 (1677)	Wing Y13AA; ESTC R221084	106,511	194

ENGLAND'S Improvement BY SEA and LAND TO Out-do the Dutch without Fighting TO Pay Debts without Moneys To set at Work all the POOR of England with the Growth of our own Lands To prevent unnecessary SUITS in Law With the Benefit of a Voluntary REGISTER Directions where vast quantities of Timber are to be had for the Building of SHIPS With the Advantage of making the Great RIVERS of England Navigable RULES to prevent FIRES in London and other Great CITIES With Directions how the several Companies of Handicraftsmen in London may always have cheap Bread and Drink BY ANDREW YARRANTON Gent. LONDON Printed by R. Everingham for the Author and are to be sold by T. Parkhurst at the Bible and three Crowns in Cheap-side and N. Simmons at the Princes Arms in S. Paul's Church-yard MDCLXXVII LICENSED Octob. 4. 1676. Roger L'estrange TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ARTHUR Earl of Anglesey Lord Privy-Seal And to the RIGHT WORSHIPFUL Sir THOMAS PLAYER Knight Chamberlain of the City of London Right Honourable and Right Worshipful THat I here not only present you with these my weak Endeavours for the vigorous Improvements of those unparallel'd Advantages which the situation of our Climate the Nature of our Soil and the Constitution of both our People and Government affords us in order to the making us every way great beyond any Nation in the World but have also at their peeping abroad into the severe light taken the boldness to seek their shelter under the secure umbrage of your joint Protections your own real worth which has deservedly purchased each of you such great Honour and Esteem in the Breasts of all the Nation is the only Argument that I shall plead for this presumption it being sufficient security for my Pardon I could not imagine which way what I lay down in my Book as matter of Fact should in this unsteady Age ever come to be put into Practice without the favour and encouragement of those who might not only obtain for it a free Access to his Majesty but such also whose very smilings on its Design might be a sufficient Shield to guard it against all the Arrows of Obloquy and Envy that are usually shot at the Projector be the Undertaking never so Noble My humble Address therefore to both your Honours is That as one may be an Advocate for it to the Prince whose increase of Wealth Strength and Honour are the chief things aimed at in this Undertaking so the other may procure for it a favourable Reception amongst those honourable Gentlemen of the City whose Wealth and Grandeur are the chief support of Trade and consequently of England the Improvement of which hath been my whole study for many years and which I now make publick meerly out of a real love to my Country whose future flourishing is the only Reward I ever hope to see of all my Labours Might I once but see our Titles to Lands and Houses secured our Rivers made communicable the Poor provided for by Bank Granaries the Manufactures of the Land incouraged and as the result of all our Trade upon the Increase I should not doubt then in few years to see this Kingdom enricht above Ten Millions per An. which is but a moderate Account of what Profit must inevitably arise from a due Execution of these Reasonable Proposals I have chalkt out the Way and given a fair Prospect of the whole and I hope clearly Evidenced that it is all feasible and matter of Fact That God may therefore give his blessing on your Pious Endeavours for the promotion of so Glorious a Work as it is the unanimous Prayer of the Nation in General it is also and always shall be the humble Petition of Your most obedient Servant A. Y. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THOMAS Lord WINDSOR My Lord FRom the great Incouragement your Lordship hath been pleased to afford me in those indefatigable Pains you have taken in the Survey of several Rivers and contriving with me effectually which way these might be rendred so far Navigable that the Publick might thereby receive a general Advantage I am emboldened to make my humble return of Thanks in this small Dedication in which should I as the usual Custom is enumerate your Lordships Favours wherewith you have been pleased to honour me beyond my Desert although in so doing I should only discharge my Duty yet the captious Reader would be apt to mis-interpret my grateful Acknowledgments for crafty Insinuations as if design'd only to court your Noble Protection And by declaring to the World how far your Lordship hath dived into these Mysteries of Navigation and what a fair Prospect you have given your Country of the great Profit necessarily arising from those Vndertakings I should give my Adversaries occasion to suspect that I make use of so unquestionable a Testimony for one part of my Book meerly in design to wheedle them into an easier credence of the whole But I hope Your Lordship is assured that I have a greater veneration for your Honour than to make a Stale of either your Name Favour or Authority or that I should presume to abuse them on any occasion as young Swimmers do their Bladders with which they too too often boldly adventure beyond their depth I know indeed some speculative Gentlemen have of late plunged themselves so far into the deep that they have not only sunk in their Vndertakings to their everlasting reproach but their Ignorance buoyed up with Pride being the only thing that hath been able to keep above water they have given the World sufficient Tests of the vast difference betwixt Speculative Notions and Practical Experiments But what I here Present Your Lordship hath been for the most part already experienced in Neighbour Nations and the rest sufficiently proved by such undeniable Demonstrations that I doubt not in some few Years to see England in spight of my Opposers a flourishing Kingdom Which together with Your Lordships pardon for this rude Address and the continuance of your Favour to protect me in this bold Vndertaking is all that is aimed at or desired by My Lord Your Honours faithful and most humble Servant Andrew Yarranton To Sir Walter Kirtham Blount Baronet Sir Samuel Baldwin Sir Timothy Baldwin Knights Thomas Foley Philip Foley Esquires Thomas Smith Esquire Joseph Newbrook Samuel Whyle Nicholas Baker John Finch and Nicholas Harrison Gent. My Noble Patriots THat I have not return'd you an earlier Account of those Travels in which out of a pure love to your Country you were pleased some years since to employ me I had rather in few words submit to your just Reprehension than by making a tedious Apology tell my Readers a long story that little or nothing concerns them It is I hope sufficient that I acquaint them that if from the Remarks I have made on the Ballance of Europe or my studious prying into the curious intreagues of Trade and the thriving Politicks of our Neighbour Nations any Advantage shall arise unto us in

his Majesty please be kept either in an Admiralty at Wexford or in some Port near or in Milford Haven and there they will be ready to sail upon any occasion either to preserve the West India Trade or into the Mediterranean and thereby give great comfort to all Trade that is used in those Seas as also incourage the People and drive away their present fears And I am very well satisfied that Ships of all Rates will be built at Wexford or thereabouts at three fifths of what the King now pays for building and there they may be also Gun'd and Victualled The Woods are the Earl of Angleseys the Lord Baltimores Sir Laurence Esmonds the Lord Arons and Shelela the Earl of Straffords with many other small Woods Here you have the Map of the River and Rivulets with some small Signs of the Woods before mentioned The Third great advantage is that there the King may have all his Iron made and Guns cast at very cheap Rates There is the Iron Stone in the Sea by the Harbour mouth and the King hath vast quantities of Woods decayed in New Forest of which at this time Charcoal is made and Shipt away to Cornwall and other parts If two Furnaces be built about Ringwood to cast Guns and two Forges to make Iron and the Iron Stone be brought from the Harbour mouth out of the Sea up the River to the Furnaces and the Charcole out of New Forest to the works there being sufficient of decayed Woods to supply four Iron-works for ever by these means the King makes the best of every thing and builds with his own Timber being near and convenient whereas now the charge and carriage makes the Timber 07 of no use to him And having Iron Stone of his own for gathering up and Wood of his own for nothing he will have very cheap Guns and Iron And all these things set together this is a business befitting a King to have And as I said this Fort will be made and answer the ends I here lay down for two thousand pounds and the Iron works built and Docks to build three Ships at one time for eight thousand pounds The discovery more particular of the place of the deep Water and Fort to be made and the Harbour within with a description of the Camp adjoyning is here in the Map affixed Now Reader I hope I have made good my promise of discovering two places convenient to build Ships in and at easie Rates and also to lay them up safe and in places that are eminently convenienced for quick getting out and could say much more of these two places as to publick benefit but it may be and it is not to be questioned I shall meet with Enemies for saying so much for I know now almost all men are Sacrificing all things to their own Nets and Drags or to such Great ones as they lye under However if his Majesty please to Command me I will go to Christ-Church with any knowing person and there upon the place shew him all that is here affirmed and the Reasons the like I will do as to the Slane in Ireland and the Woods I so commend joyning thereunto and upon the place demonstrate and make out how the River Slane and Rivulets running into the same may be made Navigable and shew the great quantities of Timber that may thereby be brought down to build Men of War the places convenient for building them and that no King or Prince in Europe hath such an advantage to build Ships as the King of England may have with that Timber in Ireland The Way to employ and set at Work all the Poor of England both Man Woman and Child that are capable and able to work and all to be done by improving two of our own Manufactures the growth whereof is all of our own Island the one the Linen the other the Iron Manufacture AS to Linen Cloth of all sorts what vast quantities are yearly brought into England and here made use of and by us sent unto our Islands and to many other places the making of which sets at work abundance of People in other Nations as also Threads Tapes Twine for Cordage and wrought Flax Now who makes the fine Linen Clothes and where have they the Materials I say the fine Linens are made in Holland and Flanders that is woven and whitened there but the Thread that makes them comes out of Germany from Saxony Bohemia and other parts thereabouts and is brought down the Elbe and Rhine in dry Fat 's for Holland and Flanders and there the Merchants have at this day and so will ever have a vast Trade in these Commodities unless that Trade of Linen be advanced in England and incouraged as I shall set down But First Observe that the People of Holland eat dear and pay great Rents for their Houses and so they do in Flanders but the weaving and whitening of the Cloth is not above the tenth part of the labour For the great labour is in preparing the Flax as pulling watering dressing spinning and winding and all this is done in the upper parts of Germany and thereabouts there Victuals are cheap and in all these parts there is no Beggar nor no occasion to beg and in all Towns there are Schools for little Girls from six years old and upwards to teach them to spin and so to bring their tender Fingers by degrees to spin very fine which being young are thereby easily fitted for that use Whereas People overgrown in age cannot so well feel the Thread Their Wheels go all by the foot made to go with much ease whereby the action or motion is very easie and delightful And in all Towns there are Schools according to the bigness or multitude of the poor Children I will here shew you the way method rule and order how they are Governed First There is a large Room and in the middle thereof a little Box like a Pulpit Secondly There are Benches built round about the Room as they are in our Play-houses upon the Benches sit about two hundred Children spinning and in the Box in the middle of the Room sits the Grand Mistress with a long white Wand in her hand If she observes any of them idle she reaches them a tap but if that will not do she rings a Bell which by a little Cord is fixt to the Box and out comes a Woman she then points to the Offender and she is taken away into another Room and chastised And all this is done without one word speaking And I believe this way of ordering the young Women in Germany is one great cause that the German Women have so little of the twit twat And I am sure it would be well were it so in England And it is clear that the less there is of speaking the more there may be of working In a little Room by the School there is a Woman that is preparing and putting Flax on the Distaffs and upon