by the king, a proclamation prohibiting dirt-boats and bum-boats upon the river of thames england and wales. sovereign (1660-1685 : charles ii) 1671 approx. 3 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2009-10 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a32471 wing c3375 estc r39175 18241217 ocm 18241217 107243 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a32471) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 107243) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 1629:85) by the king, a proclamation prohibiting dirt-boats and bum-boats upon the river of thames england and wales. sovereign (1660-1685 : charles ii) charles ii, king of england, 1630-1685. 1 broadside. printed by the assigns of john bill and christopher barker ..., in the savoy [i.e. london] : 1671. "given at our court at whitehall, the sixth day of april, in the twenty third year of his majesties reign." reproduction of original in the guildhall, london. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. 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). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng great britain -history -charles ii, 1660-1685. great britain -politics and government -1660-1688. thames river (england) -regulation. 2008-03 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-08 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2008-09 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2008-09 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion c r diev et mon droit honi soit qvi mal y pense royal blazon or coat of arms by the king. a proclamation for prohibiting dirt-boats and bum-boats upon the river of thames . charles r. whereas several dirt-boats and bum-boats do usually pass to and fro upon the river of thames , the owners whereof will not submit to the government of the company of watermen , nor any other regulation whatsoever ; but under pretence of fetching dirt , and furnishing necessary provisions on board such ships as are in the river , do commit divers thefts and robberies , and practice several other insufferable misdemeanours , and sometimes endanger the fireing his majesties own ships , as also the ships of divers merchants riding in the river , by coming in the night time to assist such as are left on board the ships , in the imbezlement of the goods , stores , or tackling intrusted to their charges : his majesty therefore , by advice of his privy council , hath thought fit to publish this his royal proclamation , and doth hereby straitly charge and command all and every person and persons whom it doth or may concern , that they presume not henceforth to use any such dirt-boats , or bum-boats upon any pretence or occasion whatsoever , as they will answer the contrary at their utmost perils . and if any such boats shall hereafter be found upon the river of thames contrary to the tenour of this his majesties proclamation , his majesty doth hereby straitly charge and command the master , wardens , assistants , and brethren of the trinity house , the officers of his majesties pards , and the masters and rulers of the company of watermen for the time being , and others whom it may concern . that they cause such dirt-boats and bum-boats to be seized , and the persons so using the same , to be arrested and brought before his majesty and his privy council ; and that they do from time to time take strict care that this his majesties proclamation may be duely put in execution . given at the court at whitehall , the sixth day of april , in the twenty third year of his majesties reign . god save the king . in the savoy , printed by the assigns of john bill , and christopher barker , printers to the kings most excellent majesty , 1671. 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. 3 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2009-03 (eebo-tcp phase 1). b06487 wing w1054 estc t226806 52529081 ocm 52529081 179228 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. b06487) 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) 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [london : 1700] caption title. imprint from wing. reproduction of the original in the california state library, sutro branch. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. 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). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng watermen and lightermen of the river thames (guild) thames river (england) -navigation -law and legislation -early works to 1800. broadsides -england -17th century. 2008-02 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-02 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2008-03 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2008-03 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion 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 . by which laws the lord mayor and aldermen ( amongst other things ) were to elect and appoint eight watermen , yearly , to be called overseers and rulers ; and they were to make such further rules and orders , as should to them seem necessary for the government of the whole , but have no power by the same laws , to enforce due obedience to such rules and orders , by which means the intent of those laws are rendred ineffectual , by rude and disorderly watermen , taking advantage thereof , and daily committing notorious abuses , to the hazarding persons lives and goods upon the river of thames . for remedy whereof , the said bill makes the watermen and lightermen one society and company , and impowers the said lord mayor , &c. yearly to elect eight watermen and three lightermen to be called rulers and overseers , who together with assistants , ( by the watermen and lightermen respectively to be chosen ) are to make good rules , orders , and constitutions , for the better and more safe conveying passengers and goods by water , and to annex reasonable penalties thereto ; which said rules are to be approved of , or altered by the lord chief justices , lord mayor , and court of aldermen . and the said court of aldermen having perused the said bill , and finding the same intended only for a publick good , have approved thereof , and signified the same by their order dated the 27th of feb. 1699. note , for want of power to make good orders , and to enforce due obedience thereto , the poor watermen who have been maimed in the wars , as well as the aged and decayed , are deprived of their work and labour , and passengers disturbed in taking boat and landing , by the rude and ungovernable watermen , notwithstanding all that the rulers of the said company could do to the contrary ; and for want of power to inforce due obedience , as aforesaid , a most sad and deplorable disafter of late happened , in that near fifty passengers were drowned in coming from gravesend in the tilt-boat , and smaller accidents frequently happen ; as also for want of order and government amongst lightermen , his majesty's customs and other duties from coals are lessened , and owners of ships , masters , seamen , and labourers , as frequently damnified ; in as much as they often quarrel concerning taking their turns in unlivering coals and merchandize from ships , and refuse to work , to the great hindrance and staying of ships from proceeding in their respective voyages . the colde tearme, or, the frozen age, or, the metamorphosis of the riuer of thames taylor, john, 1580-1653. 1621 approx. 8 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2003-01 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a13628 stc 23910 estc s1149 21468147 ocm 21468147 24011 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a13628) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 24011) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1475-1640 ; 1737:6) the colde tearme, or, the frozen age, or, the metamorphosis of the riuer of thames taylor, john, 1580-1653. 1 broadside. s.n.], [london : 1621. in verse. attributed to john taylor by stc (2nd ed.). place of imprint suggested by stc (2nd ed.). in two columns. reproduction of original in the british library. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. 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). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng thames river (england) -poetry. 2002-07 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2002-09 aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images 2002-10 chris scherer sampled and proofread 2002-10 chris scherer text and markup reviewed and edited 2002-12 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion the colde tearme : or the frozen age : or the metamorphosis of the riuer of thames . 1621. 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 . then at that time ( to poore mens care and costs ) a christmas came to towne , betwixt two frosts . then in the num colde month of ianuary , when as the sunne was lodg'd in moyst aquary : when boreas ( all with isickles bedight ) worse then a barber , 'gan to shaue and bite , turning thames streames , to hard congealed flakes , and pearled water drops to christall cakes . th' adulterate earth , long hauing play'd the whore , in bearing and in breeding bastards store , as drunkards , swearers , leachers , cheating knaues , punkes , panders , base extortionizing slanes , rent-raising rascals , villaines , theeues , oppressors , vainglorious proude fooles , gen'rall all transgressors , for which foule whordome , heauen did think it meet , to make the earth doe pennance in a * sheet . that punishment no sooner past and gon , but straight a colde freeze coate she did put on . which ( though herselfe were senceles , what she ayles ) it made her poorest bastards blowe their nayles . whilst many of her rich broode did agree , to make their stony hearts as hard as shee . the liquid thames each where from shore to shore , with colde bak'd paste , all pastycrusted o're . when in a month no waterman could share , the single benefit of halfe his fare ; when a whole tearme would not affoord a boate , for miserable fares to spend a groate . then * charity ( in poore distresled state ) vpon a cake of ice , lamenting late . halfe hunger-steru'd , and thinly clad she quiuer'd , as if in peeces shee would straight haue shiuer'd , when as a parson * ( that could neuer preach , yet to three benefices well could reach ) saw charity to want both foode and cloathing , past by , ne're spake to her , nor gaue her nothing . next an atturney * her poore case did see , but all his conscience wayted on his fee : he walk'd along , and look'd a scaunt on her , and put his bounty off with a demurre . the third a broker * , a base houndsditch hound , that euery month takes eight-pence in the pound : he look'd on charity , but nothing threw her , and vow'd that all his life , he neuer knew her . a world of people more did thrust and throng , yet none relieu'd her as they past along : vntill at last ( as she was like to dye ) the maisters of an hospitall past by * ; they stay'd , and did compassionate her case , and straight prouided her a lodging place . there was a vs'rer * , with his purse fast shut , did rayle at her and call'd her idle slut : and said she to virginia should be shipt , or to bridewell be sent , and soundly whipt . but at the last ( to many a mizers griefe ) shee in an hospitall did finde reliefe : and whether shee be dead , or like to dye , those that relieue her better know then i. but once againe , i le turne me to my theame , of the conglutinated frozen streame : vpon whose glassie face both too and fro , fiue hundred people all at onee did goe . at westminster there went three horses ouer which safely did from shore to shore recouer , there might be seene spic'd cakes , and roasted pigs , beere , ale , tobacco , apples , nuts , and figs , fires made of char-coles , faggots , and sea-coles , playing and couz'ning at the pidg'on-holes : some , for two pots at tables , cards , or dice : some slipping in betwixt two cakes of * ice : some going on their businesse and affaires , from the bank-side to pauls , or to trig-staires . and some there were ( which i almost forgot ) that thought the frozen streames were too too hot , 't was safer for them ( they did vnderstand ) to walke vpon the water then the land . some trod the thames as boldly as the ground , knowing their fortunes was not to be drownd . and sure the honest riuer is so true , it will not rob the gallowes of his due . the begger 's follow'd men in troopes and flockes , and neuer fear'd the constable or stockes , the cage , and whipping-post were idle bables , and lawes they count no more then esops fables . this was a time when th'weakest went to'th'wall , when hackney coaches got the deuill and all . though thousands others want and sorrow seeles , yet still with them the world did runne on wheeles . and sure more coaches and carroches , went in one day to the tearme and parlament : then there past wherries in a month and more , 'twixt essex , middl'sex , kent and surry shore . and though for two mon'ths time , that fell together , of windes , raine , snow , and bitter frosty wether . though water-men for number multiplies , neere twenty thousand with their families ; yet this vnto their praise i 'le truly speake , ( though many of their states are meane and weake ) all this hard time , not one amongst them all , did to dishonesty , or theeuing fall ; therefore this commendations is their due , though they are poore men , yet they still are true . i doubt not but a many trades there bee , that hold their heads more higher farre then we . yet if but eight weekes they had such poore dealing , they would fall neere to begg'ry , or to stealing . i dare affirme , that water-men this frost ( amongst them ) twenty thousand pounds haue lost : and all that losse of theirs , was no mans gaine , but toyle and dirt by land , with cost and paine . and gentlemen , as glad of boates there are , as water men will be to haue a fare . thus was this tearme , worse then the worst vacation , to those that vse a watry occupation ; whilst trades by land did dayly purse vp chinke , bakers for bread , and brewers for their drinke : tapsters for pots and cans , with nick and froath , mercers for stuffes , and drapers for their cloath : vintners for drunken heads , cutlers for swords ; sergeants for fees , and lawyers for good words : and in this gnashing age of snow and ice , the wood-mongers did mount so high their price : that many did to lye a bed desire , to saue the charge of wood , and cole , and fire . amongst the whores there were hot commings in , who euer lost , they still were sure to win . they in one houre so strangely did heat men , that all the frost they scarce were coole agen . the vs'rers bonds , and landlords rent came on , most trades had something to depend vpon ; onely the water-men iust nothing got , and yet ( by gods good helpe ) they wanted not : but all had coyne , or credit , foode and fire , and what the neede of nature did require . so farewell frost , if charity be liuing , poore men shall finde it , by the rich mens giuing . notes, typically marginal, from the original text notes for div a13628-e10 * the snow . * though i name charity , i meane 〈◊〉 , but 〈◊〉 prouerb sayes , charity is cold . * a pittiles parson . * a merciles lawyer . * an vnconscionable broker . * too good to bee true . * too true to bee good . * witnesse my selfe . a running whirling time . truth amongst poore men is more rare , then honesty amongst the rich . most ●ands got , onely water-men lost . 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 ... colepepyr, robert. 1700 approx. 15 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 3 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2007-01 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a33744 wing c5059 estc t122737 12039160 ocm 12039160 52933 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a33744) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 52933) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 60:1) 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 ... colepepyr, robert. 4 p. s.n., [london : 1700?] caption title. place and date of publication from wing. reproduction of original in british library. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. 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). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng inland navigation -england. thames river (england) -channelization. 2006-07 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2006-07 apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images 2006-08 jason colman sampled and proofread 2006-08 jason colman text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-09 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion 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 . this proponent having many years spent thoughts on the tendancies of tides , ebbs , and sands , for the benefit of navigation : humbly proposes ( to the right honourable the british house of commons in parliament assembled , that some new cutts be made in the thames bank , as the cheapest and speedyest way to perform the works aforesaid , which if approved of as the best method , he hopes to be enabled by your authority , to proceed on the same , notwithstanding any statute to the contrary . gentlemen , the damages to the said navigation , your proponent apprehends are these following , 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 . secondly , that sand from the bason damnifies navigation , by subsiding in the thames , near the breach . and it is true , the thames first entered this bason by failure of a sluice , and in time , enlarged that passage to 100 yards broad ; and also to the thames depth , ( viz. where the bason's water falls into that river . ) but as it was impossible the tides could ever make high water in the bason , before it was so in the thames , they could not do it till long after that time ; before the breach was much widened , because the bason was always the same to receive tides ; but soon after the innundation , the breach gave far less passage into the bason than afterwards the water made ; therefore we may conclude , that soon after the inundation , the water remained flowing into the bason , a good part of the time the thames was ebbing ; before those waters could come to a par , and that the thames must be the lower , before any water could ebb out of the bason . from the reasons above , a great quantity of water must remain in the bason , after the next tide began to flow in the thames : yet this quantity did abate as the breach grew wider , however may not all be abated ; therefore the time that remaining water ebbs out of the bason , and meets the first part of the next tide ; those waters stop , and swell up one against the other , and drop sullage , till the tide prevails , and gives them a new motion . for whatever doth cause loss of motion in water , gives it a tendency to drop sullage ; and the sand of this sullage will subside where it drops , and will encrease till want of room for tides and ebbs , will suffer it to rise no higher . for storms there can disperse little , if any sand , though very useful at the mouths of our rivers , where winds have more power . yet to provide against this second , and much greater damage to the thames navigation ; the proponent prays leave to observe as follows , to wit , that four miles of bank were maintained , to keep the thames from drowning the same levell , therefore while not imbanked , the flowing water had four miles to enter this levell ; whereon it rose in heighth slowly , as the thames water did , and so abated at ebb ; therefore it must then be high water at the same time in the thames , and on that then un-imbanked land ; and all water would go off from the latter , long before low-ebb : therefore no sand could then drop through long contests between tides and ebbs , when no contest was . when at ebb , the water was a foot deep on the un-imbanked marsh , that small quantity of water was as long in ebbing off through its four miles passage , as the thames was in abating a foot in heighth ; therefore the little speed the water made to drown and drain the land last mentioned , bore a very small proportion , with the running of tides and ebbs in the thames ; but if a bank had been made gradually on that four miles passage , it would as gradually have given more motion to the water that flowed on , and ebbed off from that land , to bring them to the same swiftness of running they had in the thames ; and since low-vvater at the same time in the deep vvater-frett of the bason and thames , is necessary to prevent subsidence of sand in the latter ; therefore your proponent would now make four new cutts in the thames bank for that benefit , and each of them as wide as the breach , though only cut down as low as marsh surface . if the same cutts , and the breach , give as much room in proportion to the bason's water , as the thames channel gives to the water that flows above the bason , then we must have high and low . water in the thames , and deep water frett of the bason at the same times ; and little , if any part of an ebb will be lest in the bason to meet the next tide . so this cutting of banks is an effectual way to obviate such subsiding of sand in the thames , for it takes away the cause thereof . the proponent would not cutt so much bank if less will serve . however , these or wider cutts he hopes appear able to answer his end aforesaid , in few days , to preserve the navigation , and also abate rapture in the main water-frett , that materials for reparation may be kept there , and benefits obtainable by cutting of banks , are without risque of failure , since water builds no banks . the proponent would raise stops of small wood in the new cutts a foot high ; and when tides rise to the marsh surface , the water will run in through these stops , and when risen a foot higher , it will flow freely in over the same stops , till high water , and much help the breach to fill the bason he can also make a strong wood pile , and place the same about 40 rods within the mouth of the breach , to stand in all the deep water there ; and the shallower water , between the wood pile and shoars , he can fill with sinking faggots , to be made as long as the wood pile shall be broad . over the said wood pile and faggots , the water shall flow several foot more or less , every tide . and when it is ebbed down to the head of the wood pile , the water to the thames , ward will have nothing in it's way , so will run as fast as the thames ebbs ; but the water to landwards of the wood pile , &c. will have the same to get through , and notwithstanding the water hath a thousand millions of small passages out , through , and by the wood pile , and other stops , yet those stops will make sullage subside within them every tide ; for all sullage that sinks below the heads of the stops , must go down to the ground , and subside there , for want of water strength , to drive it through , or to the stops ; and the same sullage will in reasonable time , fill all water-fretts , and raise the same fit for imbankment , as has been done elsewhere by this proponent's means ; and where all the difficult parts of that work were avoided : the said precedent was about 200 acres , being the deepest part of a water-frett , had been made by a bason of 3000 acres , and was given for lost by those who regained the rest of it , by fighting against the tendency of tides and ebbs. no cutting of banks was wanted for the work above , for the breach remained 500 yards wide , with the bason but 200 acres ; but if a wood pile be set in dagenham water-fret , without cutts , the water will fret soyl from bottom and sides of the water-frett , where the wood pile shall stand , to make good the room it stands in , because that bason is 2000 acres , or thereabouts , and but 100 yards wide . the cutts are also extreamly serviceable for repair of the breach , and by the last quarter of a tide , the water may rise as high within the bason , against the back part of the work , as it shall rise against the front thereof , by entering at the breach . and after these two parts of a tide come to a par , by rising within and without the wood pile in the water-fret , the wood pile has no water-weight against it , during the rest of the tide ; and it is the latter part of a tide ( as highest ) that presses hardest against works that contend with it . 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 . till dagenham breach is well repaired , the vvorks there shall lie under the said guard and protection of tides and ebbs , for wood-stops in the cutts shall be raised a little slower than that in the breach , and the making of new banks in the cutts , on a good foundation , shall be the last work for draining the same levels . gentlemen , your proponent is unwilling good inventions should die as idle projects , and hopes he has explained his methods for preservation of the navigation , and repair of the breach aforesaid , so far as may shew him able to perform both , and much cheaper than in the old way of fighting against vvater powers . if this method succeed , as well in essex as elsewhere , the same will be an established way for all great water-breaches for the future , and many work-men will be made able to do it , whence no more families will be ruined by water-breaches : besides , the security to all marsh-land hereby , will considerably raise their value ; and the less money shall be spent on repair of your vvater-breach , the more serviceable will this new method be to the kingdom . gentlemen , the cutts do appear as necessary to do the said services without any excessive charge , as the loss of a leg to save a life , which operation is often ventur'd by those who only hope to survive it on a wooden leg , but here shall be good banks again , when the cutts have done their service . some objections will be made against the cutts , which are proposed in this manner , and answered as follows . objection i. that the new cuts will become as deep as the breach . for answer , the proponent says , that the breach did gain neither depth nor breadth , for some years before the last stop failed , because it had gained passage enough , to fill and empty the bason , by the moderate running marsh-channels will bear , without enlargement . for a further precedent , when west thorack level was under inundation , the westerly winds that cause the highest tides in the thames , did destroy and carry off several parts of the easterly bank of the level last mentioned , but made those new breaches little , if any lower than that marsh surface ; because all the breaches there abated the water's restraint and tendency to carry out more earth for a wider passage . this precedent is on the thames , but few miles lower than dagenham , and well in memory . in each new cutt may be two rows of boards driven into the ground edge-way , till only the upper edge appears , and these rows to stand 8 foot asunder ; the water will run over the edges of these boards without fretting them lower ; nor can it in running 8 foot frett a boards breadth into the ground , because there it must mount again , to pass over the second row of boards . these boards may ease doubtful minds , but otherwise they seem needless . a further objection against cutts is , that the water entering only at the breach , did , at , and since the first inundation , break a bank three times , and drown a large adjoining level , because soil fit for banks is wanting there , and the breach with cutts may raise tides a little higher against that feeble bank , and destroy the same . answer , the bason has four mile of bank against the thames , whose repair has been much neglected since the inundation , and the westerly winds blow the highest tides from the feeble bank , full against the easterly bank of the bason : however no new breach is yet made quite through any part of that easterly bank ; and the feeble bank ought to have the heighth and strength of the thames bank , since tides flow as high against it ; and then the cutts may make high water in the bason , just when it is so in the thames , and damage no man thereby . as to want of good soile for the feeble bank ; the earth , or rather mudd used for it , is much soaked every tide , the same being taken out of the bason : so the said bank when new repaired , is at least one third part of it water , as the proponent apprehends : for water swells the particles of earth according to the quantity of water that is in them . and as such a bank dries , the water is exhaled by sun and wind ; and the parts of earth shrink one from the other in drying , till the bank cleaves and parts , or cones in many places , and receives as much air , as it formerly contained water . a few months after the last repair of this bank , the proponent was thereon , and sound very many cones in it , some of which cones lying cross the bank and deep : and when a tide rises high enough to enter through these cones , a breach is soon made in such bank. and beyond michaelmas winds the same bank will hardly stand , if not better repaired than mudd will do it . near the new cutts , ( and the better to repair the same , ) the proponent intends to lay some of the earth which comes out of the old banks and forelands in high heaps , that the sun and wind may make it as dry and fit to be well rammed , as the upper two foot of an old bank is . and the same way ought to be taken to secure the level now in danger ; either by its owners , or the government , otherwise that land will probably be added to the inundation . note , the work last mentioned will answer the objection against bank-cutting last made ; viz. that there is no earth fit to repair the same cutts . therefore when the said feeble bank is well repaired , and cutts in the thames bank made lawful as aforesaid ; then this proponent hopes water may faster , or in a greater quantity be let into the bason , without danger to himself , or any person . finis . 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. taylor, john, 1580-1653. 1632 approx. 33 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 15 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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(eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a13509) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 18882) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1475-1640 ; 1036:26) 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. taylor, john, 1580-1653. [28] p. printed by iohn hauiland, london : 1632. dedication signed: iohn taylor. in verse. signatures: a-b (-a1, b8). reproduction of the original in the henry e. huntington library and art gallery. cropped at fore-edge; right end of title page lightly printed. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. 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). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng thames river (england) -poetry -early works to 1800. isis river (england) -poetry -early works to 1800. 2002-07 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2002-08 apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images 2002-09 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2002-09 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2002-10 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion taylor on thame isis ▪ or the description of the two famous riuers of thame and isis ▪ who being conioyned or combined together , are called thamisis , or thames . with all the flats , shoares , shelues , san●● , weares , stops , , riuers , brooks , ●ournes streames , rills , riuolets , streamelets , cree●● 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 〈…〉 e impeach the passage of boats and barges betwixt the famous vniversity of oxford , and city of london . london , p 〈…〉 d by iohn haui 〈…〉 . 163● to the right honourable lords , thomas earle of arundell and surrey , earle marshall of england : edward lord viscount wimbleton : henry lord viscount fawlkland : and sir thomas edmonds , knight , treasurer of the kings houshold : lords of his maiesties most honourable priuy councell , and commissioners for the nauigation and fishing of the famous riuers of thames and medway . right noble lords , with sorrow i beheld , that which to write my duty hath compel'd , and ( from my pen ) the thames flow'd to the presse , from thence it ebbes to you to finde redresse . my honourable lord of dorchester , he truly noted in particular , dame isis wrongs , and thames great injuries , for they were sad perspectiues to his eyes , and had his lordship liu'd his meaning was to make the riuer passable , to passe . 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 , wis●…ing each fault remou'd ( which st●…nds vnfi●… ) as soone as you can reade what i haue writ , desiring god to giue y●…u high content here , and here f●…er glory permanent . humbly deuoted with his best endeuouts to all your honourable personag●…s , iohn taylor . to the memory of the truly noble deceased dvdley carleton , lord viscount dorchester , principall secretary of state to his maiestie of great britaine . if he be blest that is of noble bloud , and being made great , is both great and good , who is a christian euery way compleat , who holds it better to be good than great , whose life was guided with good conscience , whose end was sauing faith and penitence , these blessings noble dorchester were thine , and these haue made thee ' immortall and diuine . to any body . i that ne're tasted the castalian fount , or came in ken of the thessalian mount ; i that could ne're attaine to wet my lips , with tempes liquour , or sweet aga●…pps , who neuer yet haue so much fauour won , to purchase one carrowse from helicon , who with good poets dare compare no way but one , which is in being poore as they ; and hauing neuer seene the muses hill , am plentifully stor'd with want of skill , then fount , or mount , nor sacred trebl●… trine , are no assistants in this worke of mine : but ancient isis current chrystall spring inspires my braine , and i her praises sing , and tame with isis joynes his pearely streames , whose combination are my ampletheames ; though ( for the most part ) in the tracts i tread , of learned camden , speed , and hollinshead , and draytons painfull polyolbyon , whose fame shall liue , despight obliuion , these are the guides i follow , with pretence t'abbreuiate and extract their quint-essence ; nor can it be to them disparagement , that i come after in the wayes they went , for they of former writers followers be , i follow them , and some may follow me ; and man to man a president is made in art or science , mysterie or trade , as they before these riuers bounds did show , here i come after with my pen and row . taylor on thame isis . ovr patron phoebus , whose sweet influence , doth quicken all our reason , life and sense , t is he makes grasse to grow , & riuers sprin● he makes both my songs , subiect , and me sin● his beames the waters doe extenuate to vapours , and those vapours eleuate into the middle region , where they tumble , and melt , and then descend and are made humble , moystning the face of many a spacious hill , where soaking deepe the hollow vaults they fill , where into riuers they againe breake out , so nature in a circle runnes about . large downes doe treasure vp great store of raine , whose bowels vent it in the vales againe : no place in england could a treasure keepe , thames to maintaine , but coteswould ( queene of sheepe in glostershire ( my dearest motherearth ) from whose faire city i deriue my birth , are coteswould hills , and in the farthest cliffe of all those hils of isis head is chiefe : schollers from gloster that to oxford ride the truth of my assertion oft haue tride ; on their right hand neare cubberley they passe , two wells as sweet as milke , as cleare as glasse , whence isis first doth pedegree deriue , those two are able there two mills to driue . at burton on the water , south from stow vpon the would , great vaines of waters flow to burford , and to witney , and along till they make meadowes large , and isis strong . the famous riuer isis hath her spring neare tetbury , and downe along doth bring as hand-maids ) to attend her progresse , churne , colne , windrush , yenload , leech , whose windings turne , and meads , and pastures trims , bedecks , and dresses , like an vnvaluable chaine of esses . after releefe of many a ducke and goose , at saint iohns bridge they make their rendeuous , and there like robbers crossing london way , bid many a bare-foot welshman wade or stay . close vnder oxford one of englands eyes , chiefe of the chiefest vniuersities , from banbury desirous to adde knowledge to zeale , and to be taught in magdalen college , the riuer charwell doth to isis runne , and beares her company to abington , whil'st very neare that towne on barkshire side , the riuer ock doth into isis glide ; these fountaines and fish-breeding riuolets , ( the countries nurses , nourishers , and teats , ) attend dame isis downe to dorchester , neare which her louely tame doth meet with her , there tame his isis doth embrace and kisse , both joyn'd in one , cal'd tame or tame isis , isis like salmacis becomes with tame hermaphrodite in nature and in name . tame doth deriue his spring or pedegree neare mesworth in the vale of aylsbury , from whence he many miles with strange meanders , to finde his lovely isis slowly wanders , through fertile lands a quiet course he keepes , till southward vnder whately bridge he creepes , and ( like a pilgrim ) trauels all alone , no brooke or riuer waiting him vpon , onely three namelesse riuolets and two springs , which very priuately their tribute brings , bewailing isis absence , and his fate , poore tame all heauie and disconsolate , ●…nnauigable , scorn'd , despis'd , disgrac'd , ●…auing in vaine so many paces pac'd ; ●…espairing and quite desperate with these harmes , ●…e hurles himselfe vnwares in isis armes ; ●…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 . ●…t wallingford and pangbourne , two small ri●…s , ●…heir homages to thamisis instils . ●…he more the riuer runnes , the more t is spreading , ●…ill in it's course it falls as low as reading , ●…here kennet kindly comes with force and source , ●…o aid and helpe thamisis in their course . ●…he head of kennet is neare ramsbury , ●…assing to hungerford by newbury . ●…he ●…iner anborne out of hampshire ●…ies , ●…o kennet with some namelesse small supplies ●…f pe●…ic rills , which passing here and there , ●…ho to repeat , teadious and needlesse were . ●…o sunning and by bisham thames descends ●…o marlow ( called great ) from whence it wends ; ●…hereas a little rill from wickham towne , ●…o wait vpon the thames comes gliding downe ; then pleasantly the riuer takes free way to topley hills , by maidenhead and bray , till it to windsor and to stanes doth win , and there the riuer colne comes gliding in : colne hath its head or spring in hartfordshire , at abbots langley , or else very neere , with some small petty rils and riuolets , by colbrooke vnto stanes and thames it gets , the riuer wey , with diuers namelesse springs neare chertsey , vnto thames their seruice brings . wey ( beyond guilford ) help'd with creeks and crooks , at last at oatlands towards sunbury lookes , and there a little rill , ( scarce worth a line ) in middlesex doth with the thames combine . neare reygate towne the riuer mole is found , bearing its course , runs ( mole-like ) vnder ground ; but rising vp by notbury againe , at molsey it the thames doth entertaine . from ewell towne the riuer brent makes haste , who by the thames is louingly embrac'd : next which is chiswicke towne , and hammersmith , it entertaines a rill , or little frith , and after that below , neare wandsworth mill , comes in another ●…rooke or namelesse rill ; thus i the riuer bring ; and it brings me from their first springs to london bridge you see . now from the bridge below descend i must , till thames it selfe doth in the ocean thrust , and if my paines to good men proue a pleasure , my gaine 's beyond my merit , beyond measure , of watermen , men scarce can finde a slower , yet hey , to grauesend hoe and somewhat lower . braue london bridge claimes right preheminence for strength , and architects magnificence , to be true none-such , for no eye beheld a bridge which it each way hath paralleld . the arches ( tame and isis ) shadie bowres , through which both east and west in twice twelue houres twice neptune greets it flowing from the maine , and twice the riuer sends it backe againe , and as the flouds or ebbes encrease or falls , they through the arches murmure madrigals , whil'st th' eddies divers wayes doth turne and trace , tame doth with isis dance the wilde goose chace , from this rare matchlesse piece of workmanship , i with the tide of ebbe must quickly slip , and downe into the riuer lea i hie , that parts midsaxon from east saxony . which riuer fals from ware to walthamstow , and downe by layton vnto stratford bow , some call it lea , but camden calls it stowre , and neare blackwall it in the thames doth powre , next rodeing is ( a brooke or riuer small ) which foord from berking into thames doth fall . from hauering , burntwood and from ockingdon , three little rils into the thames do run , th' are namelesse , or scarce worth the nomination . and so on essex side i end my station . and now i 'le crosse into the county kent to note what riuers from her bound are sent , to wait vpon the mighty bigswolne thames , who now is grown the prince of brittains streams . by bromley glides the riuer rauensburne to deptford downe with many a wandring turne , the riuer darrent is the next and last , which downe by dartford into thames is cast . and thus from glocester shire neare tetbury and buckingham shire close by aylsbury , i haue brought isis and her partner tame with twenty seven helpes losing each their name , who spend themselues to make the thames grow great , till ( below lee ) it lose both name and seat , through many countries as these waters passe , they make the pastures fructifie in grasse : cattell grow fat , and cheese and butter cheape , hey in abundance , corne by stricke and heape , beasts breed , and fish increase , fowles multiply , it brings wood , cole , and timber plenteously : it beares the lame and weake , makes fat the leane , and keepes whole townes and countries sweet and cleane ; wer 't not for thames ( as heauens high hand doth blesse it ) we neither could haue fish , or fire to dresse it , the very brewers would be at a fault , and buy their water dearer than their mault , and had they malt and water at desire , what shift ( a gods name ) would they make for fire ? there 's many a seaman , many a nauigator , watermen , fishers , bargemen on this water , themselues and families beyond compare , in number more than hundred thousands are , who doe their prince and country often serue , and wer 't not for this riuer might goe sterue ; and for the good to england it hath done , shall it to spoyle and ruine be let runne ? shall p●…iuate persons for their gainfull use , ingrosse the water and the land abuse , shall that which god and nature giues us free , for vse and profit in community , be barr'd from men , and damb'd vp as in thames , ( a shamelesse auarice surpassing shames ; ) i speake not of the riuers bounds below , whereas the tides perpetuall ebbe and flow , nor is the r●…er wanting much repaire , within the bounds of londons honour'd maior , which limits all are cleare from stakes and piles , beyond stanes bridge ( that 's more than forty miles ) but i ( from oxford ) downe to stanes will slide , and tell the riuers wrongs which i espide , not doubting but good mindes their powers will lend , t' endeuour these abuses to amend : therefore i pray the readers to dispence , and pardon my abrupt intelligence . from oxford two miles ifley distant is , and there a new turne pike doth stand amisse , another stands at stanford , below that , weeds , shelues , and shoales all waterlesse and flat ; at newnham locke there 's plac'd a fishing weare , a gra●…ell hill too high , scarce water there ; at abington the shoales are worse and worse , that swift ditch seemes to be the better course , below which towne neare sutton there are left piles that almost our barges bottome cleft ; then sutton locks are great impediments , the waters fall with such great violence , thence downe to cullom , streame runs quicke and quicke yet we rub'd twice a ground for want of liquor . the weare of carpenter's sans fault i thinke , but yet neare witnum towne a tree did sinke , whereas by fortune we our barge did hit , and by misfortune there a board was split ; at clif on there are rocks , and sands , and flats , which made vs wade , and wet like drowned rats , ●he passage bare , the water often gone , ●nd rocks smooth worne , doe paue it like free stone . ●rom clifton downe to wallingford we fleet , where ( for annoyance ) piles are plac'd vnmeet ; ●rom thence our oares did downe the riuer draw , ●ntill we came vnto a mungrill spaw , 〈◊〉 bath , a spring , a fountaine , or a rill , ●ha● issues from the bowels of a hill , 〈◊〉 hill it may be tearm'd , or demie mountaine , ●rom out whose entralls springs this new-found fountaine , whose water ( cleare as chrystall , sweet as hony , ) cures all diseases ( except want of mony , ) 〈◊〉 helpes the palsey , cramp , or apoplexie , ●cab scurfe , or scald , or dropsie if it vex yee , ●he plurisie , the lethargie , strangury , ●t cures the cataracke , and the stone assure yee ; ●he head-ach , megrim , canker , or the mumps , mange , murrians , meazles , melancholy dumps , ●t is of vertue , vigor , and of force ●o driue all malladies from man or horse ; help'd of a tertian ague i saw one , weake , and not worth the ground he went vpon ) who drank the water mingled with the clay , and presently the ague ran away ; it cures an old sore , or a bruised blow ; it made the deafe to heare , the lame to goe ; one dumbe came thither , and straightway disputed , and on the trees are crutches executed ; to heale greene wounds it hath such soueraigne power , it cur'd a broken pate in halfe an houre , which sconce was crack'd on purpose to th' intent , to try the vertue of the element . if any man imagine i doe lie , let him goe thither , breake his pate and trie . some say crack'd maidenheads are there new sodered , i 'm sure the hill with beggers is embroidered , and all those beggers are with little cost , with lice and scabs embroidered and embost ; and as it were the well of aristotle , the water is farre fetch'd in many a bottle , the clay mixt with the liquour kils the cornes , ah could it cure some cuckolds of their hornes , it would haue patients out of euery climat , more than my patience could endure to rime at , and had it but the vertue to surcease some clamorous tongues , and make them hold their pea●… thousands of husbands would their wiues send thither ; that they might be recouered all together . apothecaries i lament your lots , your medcines now will mould in gallipots , ●…ur drugges with barbarous names vnbought will lie , ●…d waste and languish in obscurity , ●…ill begger all the quacksaluers outright , 〈◊〉 all our mountebanks are vndone quite , 〈◊〉 what 's become of me ? can any tell ? ●…od reader helpe me out of this strange well ; ●…with my pen its praise did meane to touch , ●…nd it ( i feare ) hath made me write too much , ●…hich if i haue , let your constructions be , ●…ame the strange working waters and not me : ●…ut he that sayes that i doe ouer-doe , ●…et him goe thither and hee 'le doe so to ; 〈◊〉 farewell , well , well fare thou , still excell , ●…crease in operation , well farewell . 〈◊〉 eath the fountaine , next is cleaue locks fall , ●…d neare to that a locke men goring call , ●…ut hauing past the locke at gorings there , ●…t master coltons house we had good cheare , ●…ith hearty welcome , but 't was for his sake ●…hat d●…d this hopefull businesse vndertake , ●…et with our hearty thanks we thanke them all , ●…hat din'd vs like a solemne festiuall . ●…rom thence to harts locke downward we descended , ●…d next to whitchurch locke which must be mended , ●…ecause the waters turne so swift and various , 〈◊〉 gainst our wils to dangerous courses carry vs : next there 's a weare , that if it had its right , should be well lib'd , or else remoued quite ; below that maple ducham locke appeares , where stands three faulty and vntoward weares ; then neare the bridge of cauersham there is one welbecks weare , fit to be mou'd i wis ; as past the locke at cauersham we row , we found the riuer very foule below , with weeds and hills of mud and grauell choak'd . that with our oares and staues we thrust and poak'd . next breaches weare neare sunning naught doth lie , and sunning locke the groundsill is too high , besides two gin-holes that are very bad and sunning bridge much need of mending had ; haules weare doth almost crosse the riuer all , making the passage straight and very small , how can that man be counted a good liuer that for his priuate vse will stop a riuer ? shiplocke , or cottrels locke stand very neare , not from that farre is elmes his fishing weare , whereas the riuers case is altered well , for master ployden neare that place doth dwell ; marsh locke is plac'd a little aboue henly , and there the thames is kept indifferent cleanly , and here at henley once in fifteene yeares , a riuer stranger in the street appeares , whose cesterne in the woods his wealth doth gather , ●…n that long space , and cannot get it rather , b●…t gotten out of high-way-flouds , and leaues , a●… dutchmen keepe the drops of their house-eues . the cesterne fils and then the wals breake downe , and send their stowage vnto henley towne , an●…ther fifteene yeares the wals repaire , and fill the place with raine or thawed ayre , and being so replenisht in that space , it runnes ( rub rub ) close by the bowling place . neare henley ( some three quarters of a mile ) a little i le digresse and change my stile . should i forget the good iudge whitlocks loue , vnmanner'd and vngratefull i should proue , it was about the time ( as i remember ) in august , some fiue dayes before september ) we landed neare the noble iudges harbour , ( with stomacks sharpe as razour of a barber ) the time was short , we neither toyd nor trifled , the kitchin , pantry , pastry strait we rifled ; the celler and the buttery both we forrag'd , by which braue booty we were much encourag'd , s●…ke and good claret drawne from tierce and punchion , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one whole day , and two euenings nunchion ; ou●… b●…ead as good as euer baker sifted , ou●… wine ( rare wine ) as ere to mouth was lifted , and in our businesse ( though we all were hasty ) we did surprize an excellent venson pasty , we there did saue the labour of inuiters ; whole ioynts of mutton prou'd vs good sheepe-biters , our beere was brauely boyl'd and strongly malted , our pidgeon pie was pepper'd well and salted , most tender chickins , pullet , and a capon , we ( in our fury ) did commit a rape on ; a mighty scarlet lobster last we seased , and so with these acchats our minds were eased , but that which made our viands taste the better , was welcome , which made each of vs a debter ; and long may he and his suruiue and flourish , that did poore trauellers so kindly nourish , these lines are writ in duty to expresse our loue , our duty , and our thankfulnesse . from thence we hi'd vs with the streame and wind , and in the barge at noone we brauely din'd , and as our meat our gratefull minds did moue , we dranke iudge whitlocks health to shew our loue . then came we to a locke call'd hambleton , whereas the streame a handsome course doth runne ; next mednam weare doth speedy mending lacke , it puts the thames , and thames puts it to wracke , and neare frogge-mill two paltry stops there are , that in the riuer take too great a share ; 〈◊〉 at harley , and a weare below , ●…lmost a stop , ( fit to be clear'd i know ; ) ●…hen temple locke , ' bouc bisham church there is , ●…eneath which is a weare somewhat amisse , ●…hen marlow locke is worst i must confesse , ●…he water is so pinch'd with shallownesse , ●…eneath which is a weare should be defac'd , ●…nd cottrels weare of cookham be displac'd . 〈◊〉 weare doth to one holdernesse belong , ●…hich doth the riuer most in●…ious wrong , ●…eare which a spring runs from the chalkie hills , ●…he which ( not long agoe ) did driue two mills , 〈◊〉 stop 'gainst toplow warren much doth spread ●…ext bolters lock , ( a mile from maydenhead . ) ●…hus haue i past the locks , now weares and stops , ●…rom thence as farre as stanes mine inkhorne drops . ●…oue maidenhead bridge a stop and one beneath , ●…hich both to be amended i bequeath ; ●…gainst bray church , and bray mill , stand three more , ●…different bad as any were before ; 〈◊〉 stop at water oakley naught doth lie , ●…t rudles poole the grauell hills too high , ●…he water turnes so short , and runnes so quicke , ●…hat oft the barges there a ground doe stricke ; ●…eare boueney church a dangerous stop is found , ●…n which fiue passengers were lately drown'd ; below the bridge at windsor ( passing thus ) some need lesse p●…les stand very perillous : neare eaton college is a stop and weare , whose absence well the riuer may forbeare ; a stop , a weare , a dangerous s●…nke tree , no●… farre from 〈◊〉 ferry are all three ; a graue●…l bed , two stops and stakes beside , agai●…st and neare old windsor church we spide , with 〈◊〉 stops more we saw neare ankerwike , and neare my lord maiors stone we saw the like , besides an 〈◊〉 or island there we found , hedg'd far 〈◊〉 into the streame to gaine more ground : from stanes we past to lallum guls , most shallow , whereas ●…iue barges fast aground did wallow ; and su●…h a trowling current there did set , that we were vildly puzzled by to get ; tumbling 'twixt middlesex and surrey land , we came where chertseyes crooked bridge doth stand , which s●…re was made all by left-handed men , the like of it was neuer in my ken ; wiw waw to oakam ward , kim kam , kiwwaw , that through i●… men can hardly set or row , that 's the last fault i found that merits note , and downe from thence we merrily did ●…lote . thus haue i shew'd thames wrongs in generall , and wish they may be mou'd , or mended all ; and who can but with pity here behold these multitudes of mischiefes manifold ? shall thames be barr'd its course with stops and locks , with mils , and hils , with gravell beds , and rocks : with weares , and weeds , and forced ilands made , to spoile a publike for a priuate trade ? shame fall the doers , and almighties blessing be heap'd vpon their heads that seeke redressing . were such a businesse to be done in flanders or holland mongst the industrious netherlanders , they to deepe passages would turne our hils , to windmils they would change our watermils . all helpes vnto this riuer they would ayd , and all impediments should be destroyed : our vagabonds ( the wandering brood of caine , ) they would enforce those runnagates take paine , whereby much profit quickly would accrue , ( for labour robs the hangman of his due . ) in common reason , all men must agree that if the riuer were made cleane and free , one barge , with eight poore mens industrious paines , would carry more than forty carts or waines . and euery waine to draw them horses fiue , and each two men or boyes to guide or driue , charge of an hundred horse and 80. men with eight mens labour would be serued then , thus men would be employed , and horse preseru'd , and all the countrey at cheape rates be seru'd . t' is said the dutchmen taught vs drinke and swill , i 'm sure we goe beyond them in that skill , i wish ( as we exceed them in what 's bad , ) that we some portion of their goodnesse had : then should this worthy worke be soone begun , and with successefull expedition done : which i despaire not of , but humbly plead , that god his blessings will increase and spread on them that loue this work , and on their heires , their goods and chattels , and on all that 's theirs : i wish them blest externall , and internall , and in the end with happinesse eternall . finis . i haue almost finished another small booke which i will name , all waters , wherein i haue treated of the strange diuersities of waters , and also i haue described and explained the various dispositions of watermen , their lawfull vses , and their vnlawfull abuses , neither flattering , sparing , or wronging any good or ill , which i know either by them or my selfe , not omitting any thing that may tend in the praise of their honest trade and conditions , nor inserting any thing to couer their causlesse iniuries , which many of them haue done to me and others ; for they haue lately cast out scandalous libels , and defaming speeches against me , and i must make them know , that i am not of that tame patience to forbeare them , who are knowin●… to be nothing but rumour and rabble ; therefore vpon such i must right my selfe in print . notes, typically marginal, from the original text notes for div a13509-e1250 corruptly called stow the old . 