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Title: England's improvement by sea and land ..
Year: 1698 (1690s)
Authors: Yarranton, Andrew, 1616-1684
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Publisher: London : T. Parkhurst
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ndLittle-Old-Baily, (L) Commands Little=OidSaily.(M) Commands l^e^Conz^r. (NJ CommandsTye=Corner. (0) Commands Holboni^Brid^e,i/P),^ Chmmmds HolbovnS/u(7C, (o_) Com-mands Hojier 2ind Cow^Lane, (5^) Com.mandsFleetDitch, (S) Commands Turihtgaiiuhane.( T) Commands the Alky goiing into Sh:^=Lane^( V) Commands the other Aley, ( W) Com-mands F/ea^L^??^, and all the Houfes facing theJhames^ do command the Lanes and Stairs at theW^ater-fide, and each Houle in.the High Streetsand Lanes, that have Bclconies, arc of Great Strength, 120 England;?3(mj?^0ljement Part *. Strength, and immediately may be made ufefulto prevent Maffacres, or unlawful Attempts,-for every mans Houfe is his Caftle. By your Oblervations made on this Map, andhow all Places are Commanded byixheHoufesoppofite, you very eafily lee the great Strengththe City is now of, and how impoffible it is for theTORIES to bring their Wicked Purpoles to pals,if juft and lawful means are timely applied. The Map is hereunto Affixed. CHAP. —
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1 Part 2. oBp ^ea nitti lauli* 119 CHAP. VII. The Iwproyement of the Ft(Jm. SO prodigioufly Rich is the Fifliing Trade, and fl)plainly the Right of the King of Englmd^ thatwith good Reafon, is our Negligence taken no-tice of by all Europe, and our Prudence queftionedby it, that we keep fo little a fliare of it to our felvesas we do, and let our Neighbours grow Great andHaughty by the peaceable and full enjoyment of thatconfiderable Trade. Twas a moft unlucky piece ofGoodneis, that fome of our former Princes ever fuffer-ed a Forreign Buls to vifit the Engliih Coafts, theTributes and Acknowledgments were paid them thenin return of that Favour: And moft Unlucky ftill it Mas,that the fad Calamitous times in the Reign of KingChirks the Firfl:, prevented his Rcfblution of Correct-ing the Dutch^ and keeping the Wealth of the Seasto his Own People; and that the Civil Wars fome-times after, gave occafion to the HolImderSy to fixthemfelves in that Trade: And tis now a Difficultmatter ( by Force

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