Improving Navigation River Lee Town (3 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. disbound pamphlet, 74 pages, very good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Preserving and Improving, deepening cleansing, scouring, the river Ware, better supply of good wholesome water to London and Westminster. To make it Navigable. New canal from The Folly to Dicker Mil, Constant's Wier, Manifold Ditch, Ware Mill, Water Lane near Priory Orchard. Another cut or canal from Ware Weir below Ware Bridge, to Stanstead Bridge Stanstead Mill. Another cut from above Field's otherwise Rye Bridge Weir, Archers Weir, Field's Weir. Another above Dobb's Weir otherwise New Turnpike, into Broxbourn Mill. Yet another above Carthagena Turnpike above King's Weir over Cheshunt Mill Stream to powder mills near Waltham Abbey. And it goes on like this for another page. e.t.c. 73 pages, plus title page. Disbound with usual stitching and binding residue.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The act of 1572 allowed the river to be navigable to the north side of London, this act is to leangthen the navigation. Bridges and tunnels arected as needed. Compensation to Abraham Hume, William Maynard, William Wake, Peter Floyer, Newman's Weir, Parkinson's Weir, Sewardston Mills, John Archer, and Dean and chapter of St Pauls, owners of a weir on Lee in posession of Merry Teshmaker e.t.c. Towing path through Enfield and Edmonton Marshes made on East side of the cut except between head of Enfield Mill Stream to Newman's Weir. Original act of Parliament, pamphlet, disbound with usual glue and stitching residue from nonce volume of that year.