Profit, conveniency, and pleasure, to the whole nation being a short rational discourse, lately presented to His Majesty, concerning the high-ways of England : their badness, the causes thereof, the reasons of those causes, the impossibility of ever having them well-mended according to the old way of mending, but may most certainly be done, and for ever so maintained (according to this new way) substantially, and with very much ease : and so that in the very depth of winter there shall not be much dirt, no deep-cart-rutts, or high-ridges, no holes, or vneven places, nor so much as a loose stone (the very worst of evils both to man and horse) in any of the horse-tracts, nor shall any person have cause to be once put out of his way in any hundred of miles riding.

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Profit, conveniency, and pleasure, to the whole nation being a short rational discourse, lately presented to His Majesty, concerning the high-ways of England : their badness, the causes thereof, the reasons of those causes, the impossibility of ever having them well-mended according to the old way of mending, but may most certainly be done, and for ever so maintained (according to this new way) substantially, and with very much ease : and so that in the very depth of winter there shall not be much dirt, no deep-cart-rutts, or high-ridges, no holes, or vneven places, nor so much as a loose stone (the very worst of evils both to man and horse) in any of the horse-tracts, nor shall any person have cause to be once put out of his way in any hundred of miles riding.

Author

Mace, Thomas, d. 1709?

Publication

[London :: s.n.],

Printed for a publick good in the year 1675.

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Roads -- England.

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"Profit, conveniency, and pleasure, to the whole nation being a short rational discourse, lately presented to His Majesty, concerning the high-ways of England : their badness, the causes thereof, the reasons of those causes, the impossibility of ever having them well-mended according to the old way of mending, but may most certainly be done, and for ever so maintained (according to this new way) substantially, and with very much ease : and so that in the very depth of winter there shall not be much dirt, no deep-cart-rutts, or high-ridges, no holes, or vneven places, nor so much as a loose stone (the very worst of evils both to man and horse) in any of the horse-tracts, nor shall any person have cause to be once put out of his way in any hundred of miles riding." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A50205.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• THE PREFACE TO THE KING.
• to the reader
• text
  • The Order of the Work, In three CONSIDERATIONS.
  • The Order of the Law.
  • The manner and means by which This so needful and profitable Work may most certainly be effected, with much ease, and no great cost.
  • The certain way to keep and maintain the High-wayes firm and good for ever.
  • The Order of the Day-man, and his Constant Work.
  • The Conclusion and very Life of the Business.
  • AN Abbreviation of the WORK, Being an Encouragement thereunto.
  • A short glance of the Conveniences, Pro∣fits, and Pleasures of this Work, men∣tioning only some few.
• AN ADVERTISEMENT.