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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50267	To his Highness Oliver, Lord Protector of the Common-wealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the dominions thereto belonging: is humbly presented A Mediterranean passage by water between the two sea towns Lynn & Yarmouth upon the two rivers the Little Owse, and Waveney. With farther results.	Mathew, Francis, Esquire.	1656 (1656)	Wing M1287G; ESTC R215553	4,523	15

To his Highness OLIVER LORD PROTECTOR Of the COMMON-WEALTH OF England Scotland and Ireland AND The Dominions thereto belonging Is Humbly presented A Mediterranean Passage by Water Between the Two Sea Towns LYNN YARMOVTH Upon the Two RIVERS The Little OWSE and WAVENEY With farther Results LONDON Printed by Gartrude Dawson 1656. To his Highness OLIVER Lord PROTECTOR of the Common-wealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions thereto belonging May it please your Highness HAving made my former Addresses in this kind to your Highness concerning the Navigable Passage upon the Rivers Avon and Thames between Bristol and London and finding that to have been a Service so acceptable to your Highness as that your deep judgment approved thereof as a thing very advantagious to the West and South of England I thought good in this Paper to offer unto your Highness a Work no less beneficial to the North and East that by this means all parts of this flourishing Common-wealth under your gracious Protection might have cause to bless your Highness and to be sutors to your powerful hand for the allowance and performance of a Work so highly conducing to the Publick good By your Highness most Humble and most Faithful Servant Francis Mathew A Mediterranean Passage by Water between the two Towns of Lynn and Yarmouth c. May it please your Highness THus I shall state the businesse which at present I intend to present to your powerful hand and under your potent Protection to the whole Common wealth the which Work is even already framed to the end intended that is Nature having so bountifully concurred with her own endeavours to the effecting thereof in undergoing the greatest charge which commonly is the chiefest stop in all businesses of this nature The flourishing Havens of Lyn and Yarmouth being so Portuous so much frequented with Shipping and so plyed with Trade it is apparent that the two Counties adjoyning Norfolk and Suffolk receive much comfort thereby being more indulgently dealt withal by their two Havens then remoter parts as particularly assisted by their importations furnished by that means with many Forreign commodities which come flowing into those Ports These two Rivers above named the little Owse and Waveney running as it were between the two Havens and in a manner dividing those two Counties were they opened for Navigation would very much encrease the benefit both to those Haven Towns in venting of those their Importations as also prove a great ease to the said two Counties to have so facile and cheap a passage made to bring those Commodities unto them and withal thereby to vent what they produce of their own These two Rivers are so favourably cast by Nature as in the Winter when they will be most for use the Heads of them already almost meet at a place called Loppham-Bridge where a Navigable Channel being cut in length lesse than a mile the two Rivers would joyn for mutual Commerce from Lynn to Yarmouth and withal Boats might rest at any place of these Rivers there to make their Magazins of such Forreign Importations as the Countries adjoyning stand in need of others might touch at every Market Town there standing at the least six or seven upon or very neer adjoyning to the said Rivers and within distance of ten miles very many Market Towns more the which in the end of this Paper I shall set down with their several distances from those two Rivers which Rivers I observe to lie so neer upon a Level as few Sasses will be required to lessen the charge What a blessing and ease would this afford to all the Inhabitants neer adjoyning upon all Market daies as they do in Flanders to carry themselves and their Commodities by Water avoyding those deep waies in the Winter season especially on Suffolk side from Town to Town from Market to Market at such rates as will not be considerable if compared to their charge and trouble in going by Horse or Cart These advantages for the increase of Commerce and Trade your Highness wisdom will soon penetrat and give heat unto by your potent approbation your Highness being generally observed to be most zealous in the setting forward of Trade taking so much to heart the increase thereof Neither doth this Design of mine contain it self within the verge of the aforesaid two Rivers nor in the advance of Trade brought into those great Havens of Lynn and Yarmouth but it reacheth higher and extends to the uniting the In-land Commerce upon Rivers between the North and East of England there being no obstacle were these two Rivers opened for Navigation no hinderance at all but that which our carelesness hath negligently cast aside and made not use of for many years to impead our Navigation upon Rivers within the Land from the Haven of Yarmouth to the Citie of York Our Henry the first as Mr. Camden well observeth in his description of Lincolne shire cut a Channel for the space of seven miles from Torksea upon the Trent down to the Citie of Lincolne there to joyn with the River Witham which falling into the Haven of Boston come through the Isle of Ely into these our two Rivers the Litle Owse and Waveney and so to Yarmouth Mr. Camden saith this gallant King caused that memorable work of seven miles to be cast up for the benefit of his Citie of Lincolne though other Writers speak of a mixt intention therein as partly to facilitate his own Removes from one part of the Kingdome to another he being the first King who brought Progresses into fashion so making his people equally participant of him that they might see and know him better by himself than by his picture He was an active and wise Prince and as all Rulers of States have ever their designs headed with several ends so might this King in this very work as upon any forreign invasion or domestick insurrection to transport from one side of the Kingdome to another his Army without grievances to his people for billeting of his Souldiers through the Country as they passed or tyring out his men with long Marches but to have them ready for action upon a moment for by this very work of his of seven miles cut out for Navigation conjoyned to what Nature before had wrought he might have transported an Army by Water all within the Land from the East part of England into the North without the least noyse of landing and have been upon his enemies before they dreampt of him in this silent and covered way Howsoever his ends were it was a noble work and a gift worthy to come from a Crown it being the first President that I have found in England of joyning Rivers for Navigation which showeth even then how forward and prone toward Improvement this Kingdom was But what an unworthy neglect thereof hath been in these latter times I blush to write 〈◊〉 To let it fall to be of no use and the Work though yet extant to lye