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love_n	esquire_n	john_n	thomas_n	2,574	5	11.1893	5	false

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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