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Author: Yarranton, Andrew, 1616-1684.
Title: 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.
Series: Early English books online text creation partnership. Navigations series.
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Print source: 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.
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, M DC LXXVII. [1677]
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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.
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THOMAS Lord WINDSOR.
To Sir Walter Kirtham Blount, Baronet, Sir Samuel Baldwin, Sir Timothy Baldwin, Knights, Thomas Foley, Philip Foley, Esquires, Thomas Smith Esquire, Joseph Newbrook, Sa∣muel Whyle, Nicholas Baker, John Finch, and Nicholas Harrison, Gent.
THE EPISTLE TO THE READER.
ENGLAND'S Improvement BY SEA and LAND.
The true way to beat the Dutch at Sea without Fighting.
The Preamble of the Bill to be carried into the House of Commons, for put∣ting the City of Salisbury and the Free Lands within ten Miles thereof, under a voluntary Register, with some Heads of the said Bill.
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 Manu∣facture.
Rules to prevent Fires in the City of London, and in the great Cities of England, taken exactly from the Me∣thod that is used in Saxony, and ma∣ny other parts of Germany.
A Dialogue betwixt a Clothier, a Woollen-draper, and a Country-Yeomen, at Supper upon the Road.
Considerations upon the advantages and disad∣vantages of the Manufacturies of Linnen, Thred, Tape, and Twine for Cordage.
Considerations upon the Iron Manufacture.
Considerations upon Bank-Granaries.
The Form of the Bill to be carried into Parlia∣ment, for the making of the River Sharwell Navigable from Oxford to Banbury, and for building Publick Granaries near the said Ri∣ver, with liberty to set up Mills and Engines to go by Water, for the use and benefit of the several Companies of the Handicraft Trades in the City of London, called by the Names of Weavers, Pin-Makers, Turners, Water-men, Silk-Throwers, Felt-Makers, Pavers, Cloth-Workers, Plasterers, Joyners, Embroiderers, Brick-Layers, Smiths, Armourers, and Car∣penters.