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id: A91799
author: Richardson, Thomas, waggon-master-general.
date: 1643
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words: 742
sentence: 35
flesch: 65
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title:
  Whereas I am informed that some evil disposed persons (upon pretence of imployment or authority from me, to hire and bring in teams of draught horses and carts, for the service of the King and Parliament) ...

summary:
  A notice from Thomas Richardson, Wagon-master General, of certain persons having fraudulently received money from some of His Majesty's subjects, upon pretence of employment by him. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A91799 of text R211709 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.7[18]).


id: A32646
author: Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.
date: 1661
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mime: application/xml
words: 1692
sentence: 57
flesch: 58
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title:
  A proclamation to restrain the excessive carriages in wagons and four-wheeled carts to the destruction of high-ways

summary:
  Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A32646) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 54008)


id: A46568
author: England and Wales. Sovereign (1685-1688 : James II)
date: 1687
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words: 1549
sentence: 52
flesch: 55
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title:
  By the King, a proclamation for restraining the number and abuses of hackney coaches in and about the cities of London and Westminster, and the suburbs thereof, and parishes comprised within the Bills of Mortality

summary:
  Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).


id: A72822
author: Hopkins, Edward, fl. 1621.
date: 1621
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mime: application/xml
words: 1645
sentence: 61
flesch: 60
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txt: txt/A72822.txt
title:
  To the honorable assembly of the Commons house of Parliament, and to the committees, for grieuances of the same house. The humble petition of Edward Hopkins, William Barwell, Iohn Bellamy, Robert Vilet, Iohn Walter, Robert Wright, and other wharfingers in and neere the Cittie of London

summary:
  Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 151074) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).


id: A72823
author: Company of Woodmongers (London, England)
date: 1621
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words: 1847
sentence: 70
flesch: 59
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title:
  To the honorable assembly of the Commons house of Parliament, and to the committees for grieuances of the same house: the answere of the master, wardens and fellowship of woodmongers, London, to the complaint of some few wharfingers and others, whereof, some are forraine, and some free of the same citie

summary:
  Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). To the honorable assembly of the Commons house of Parliament, and to the committees for grieuances of the same house: the answere of the master, wardens and fellowship of woodmongers, London, to the complaint of some few wharfingers and others, whereof, some are forraine, and some free of the same citie Company of Woodmongers (London, England) 1621 Approx.


id: A13524
author: Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
title: The world runnes on vvheeles: or oddes, betwixt carts and coaches
date: 1623
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words: 9484
sentence: 148
flesch: 35
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summary:
  Moreouer , as Man is the most noblest of all Creatures , and all foure-footed Beasts are ordayned for his vse and seruice ; so a Cart is the Embleme of a Man , and a Coach is the Figure of a Beast ; For as Man hath two legges , a Cart hath two wheeles : The Coach being ( in the like sense ) the true resemblance of a Beast , by which is Parabollically demonstrated vnto vs , that as much as Men are superior to Beasts , so much are honest and needfull Carts more nobly to be regarded and esteemed , aboue needlesse , vpstart , fantasticall , and Time-troubling Coaches . one William B●ouen a Dutchman brought first the vse of Coaches hither , and the said Boonen was Queene Elizabeths Coachman , for indeede a Coach was a strange Monster in those dayes , and the fight of them put both horse and man into amazement : some said it was a great Crab-shell brought out of China , and some imagin'd it to be one of the Pagan Temples , in which the Canibals adored the deuill : but at last all those doubts were cleared , and Coach-making became a substantiall Trade :


id: A09194
author: Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?
title: Coach and sedan, pleasantly disputing for place and precedence the brewers-cart being moderator.
date: 1636
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words: 13725
sentence: 328
flesch: 60
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txt: txt/A09194.txt
summary:
  I easilie ( quoth I ) beleeve it , whe● i● cert●ine places of the Citie● as I h●ve often observed , I have 〈…〉 I have there , the w●y 〈…〉 with ● C●●●h , t●o o● th●●e , t●at wha● hast , or businesse soever a man hath● hee mus● wait● my Ladie ( I know ●ot whose ) le●●●●e ( who is in the ne●t shop , buyi●g penda●●s for her eares or ● colle● for her ●ogge ) Yours ever , Mis●maxi●s .


