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id: A32471
author: Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.
title: By the King, a proclamation prohibiting dirt-boats and bum-boats upon the river of Thames
date: 1671
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words: 1259
sentence: 54
flesch: 63
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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: B06487
author: Watermen and Lightermen of the River Thames (Guild)
date: 1700
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words: 1342
sentence: 45
flesch: 54
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title:
  The Watermen and Lightermen's case in relation to the bill before this honourable House for the explanation of former laws made touching wherrymen and watermen, and joyning the lightermen to them, and providing one good government for both.

summary:
  Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179228) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2780:29) The Watermen and Lightermen's case in relation to the bill before this honourable House for the explanation of former laws made touching wherrymen and watermen, and joyning the lightermen to them, and providing one good government for both. Watermen and Lightermen of the River Thames (Guild) 1700 Approx.


id: A13628
author: Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
title: The colde tearme, or, The frozen age, or, The metamorphosis of the Riuer of Thames
date: 1621
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words: 2056
sentence: 101
flesch: 78
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summary:
  IT was the time when men wore liquor'd bootes , When rugged Winter , murdred hearbes & rootes : When as the Heauens , the Earth did all attire With plashes , puddles , pooles , blacke dirt & mire . And all that losse of theirs , was no mans gaine , But toyle and dirt by land , with cost and paine .


id: A33744
author: Colepepyr, Robert.
date: 1700
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words: 3454
sentence: 91
flesch: 60
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title:
  A new method of Robert Colepepyr, Gent., for speedy and effectual preservation of the navigation on the River Thames and to repair the water-breach in to Havering and Dagenham levels in Essex ...

summary:
  First , The Water received by the Inundation or Bason , is thereby cut off from the upper Part of the same River ; this makes some abatement in Water-depth there , but it must be inconsiderable ; since taken from so many Miles of Length , and the Breadth of Water that flows above the Bason . The Ebbs far exceed Tides , in being Destructive to Works that fight against them ; however their Waters on each side the Wood Pile ebb together , and keep to a Parr , so as one Ounce of Water-weight lies not against the Wood Pile all the Ebb , and thus the Works in Dagenham become less liable to Risque , than the Precedent , or Work before-mentioned ; for Preservation whereof , no Cutts were made ; but any great Water Passages may be left in this Wood Pile , or between the same and the Earth , yet they cannot wear wider , while the Water is on a Par on both Sides , as aforesaid .


id: A13509
author: Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
date: 1632
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words: 5727
sentence: 154
flesch: 62
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title:
  Taylor on Thame Isis: or The description of the tvvo famous riuers of Thame and Isis, who being conioyned or combined together, are called Thamisis, or Thames With all the flats, shoares, shelues, sands, weares, stops, riuers, brooks, bournes, streames, rills, riuolets, streamelets, creeks, and whatsoeuer helps the said riuers haue, from their springs or heads, to their falls into the ocean. As also a discouery of the hinderances which doe impeache the passage of boats and barges, betwixt the famous Vniuersity of Oxford, and the city of London.

summary:
  For then with noble care and deligence He view'dthe helps , and the impediments , Which aid , or hinder passage vp and downe , Twixt Oxford City , and braue Winds●…r towne ; Yet as I sometimes row'd and sometimes st●…r'd , I view'd wh●…e well , where ill the way appeard ; And here I haue des●…rib'd the way we went , Commixing truth with honest merriment , My th●…ed-bare wit a mad wooll gathering goes , To shew the things in verse I saw in prose ; And ( Honourable Pe●…res ) I humbly craue , My artless●… lines may your acceptance haue , ●…or closer can the barke be to the tree , ●…han their infoldings and embracings be ; ●…hey rise and fall together , and they are ●…n want and plenty to haue equall share ; ●…d Tame with Isis will be both one riuer , ●…ill in the Oc●…n they their names deliuer .


