File:England's improvement by sea and land (1698) (14589803910).jpg

Identifier: englandsimp00yarr (find matches)
Title: England's improvement by sea and land ..
Year: 1698 (1690s)
Authors: Yarranton, Andrew, 1616-1684
Subjects:
Publisher: London : T. Parkhurst
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
ifying the hill near that dry under ground, to pre-vent thcKing of To/ i7u/makmg near approaches uponthem, they being fatisficd. that King hath an akingtoe th for that City, as alfo you may find by Hiflory,that it was the great Fortification ufcd at rj;/r//j, whichwas theoccafion of keeping that City from the Turksfo many years, and in the Civil Wars in EngLind^ theminers in the Forreftof T)etiii, made fuch ufc of theirFiollows, from which they had taken away the mineral,th?.t when great Parties of Horfe andFoor,were drawndown ro fall upon them, they immediately defcendedinto their mines,and there remaindcnly at fomc times,they would march its pollible a mile under ground,andthcnafcend up above ground,and fall upon the Soldiersin their quarters, which advantage of playing bo peepunderground, gave them the good Fortune of neitherpaying contribution, or giving free quarter for fomerime near the end of the War, to either party, In pecaUy m the North quarter of the Tofl-n, where both P by
Text Appearing After Image:
o Part TL. 25p<^edfliiti3lantr» nj A METHOD Difcovered to Prevent MASSACRES, O R Unlawful ATTEMPTS, UPON THE INHABITANTS Of the City of LONDON; And leflen the C h a r g e oftheir Guards. THe Turks Army of i Joooo Men,laid Siege to iheCity of Vteuna in Germany about 200 yearsfince;and had made many Breaches inthcWalls,but ef-pecially in the North quarter of the Town,where both P ty H4 England^ 3Jmp?dtCrtient JPart 2i, by Bittery and Mines rhey had fo fitted and preparedcnemfclvesiora Storm, that it was at that rime judgedby the befirgcd impolTible for them to make fuch aRefiilance as fiiould fccure the- Town; and as it isvery Commonly in fuch CaTcs, -that great hazardsand Eminent dangeis pUc men upon new and flrangeways for felf prercrvationifG it hapncdjn tkisCity,rherebeing at that rime a very able Inginicr imploycd withinthat Fort; and,finding that the Number of the Turksbeing great who had befiegd them , and thatthey were not able in the Town to defend the place,at a Council of

Note About Images