Proposals, about lights for this city, to the right honourable the Lord Mayor, Court of Aldermen, and Common Council. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B28451 of text R225171 in the English Short Title Catalog. Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B28451 Wing P3715C Interim Tract Supplement Guide 816.m.13[46] ESTC R225171 ocm99885902

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 eng Street lighting -- England -- London -- Early works to 1800. London (England) -- History -- 17th century. eebo Proposals, about lights for this city, : to the right honourable the Lord Mayor, Court of Aldermen, and Common Council. n/a 1690 4 525 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2014-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-08 Sampled and proofread 2014-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
PROPOSALS , about Lights for this CITY , To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor , Court of Aldermen , and Common Council .

WE do hereby propose to this City , to enlighten it with Glass Globe Lights , which shall be so made , that neither the Tin or Lead , that is used in them , shall occasion any dark Shadows whatsoever , but that the Light thereof shall be always Clear , and equally dispers'd in the Streets , both under and on each Side round about them ; so that their Eight will be delightful and useful to Passengers , without glaring or dazling the Eye .

These Lights to be set upon Posts , or in Rings of Iron about Ten Foot high from the Pavement , and that transversly in the several Streets ; that is to say , there shall be still placed a Lamp on the one Side of the Street , against the Middle of the Space where the Light of the two Lamps on the contrary Side seems to meet .

We will further agree , That no House shall pay above Six Shillings a Year , and that every such Dwelling , or other House , in which Trade is carryed on , and that so payeth , shall have the Benefit of the Light , reaching and shining as far in the Street or Lane , &c. where they dwell , as their Door , or Passage into it ; and after the same Manner , every Street , Lane , Alley , Court , Square , Yard , or other Places , shall be enlightened , having at least one Lamp within Thirty Yards distance of each House .

And that all Churches , Halls , Schools , &c. shall pay after the Rate of Eight Shillings a Year , and no more .

We will also agree , That the said Lighting yearly , shall be continued from the Twentieth of September , to the Twentieth of April ; and that they always be maintained only with Rape-Oil , and Cotton-Wick , and that they shall begin to be lighted at Candle-lighting , or as soon as it begins to be dark ; and that they shall be kept burning clear , each Night , untill Twelve of the Clock , or so much as shall not be enlightened by the Moon ; and that the Glasses shall be cleaned every Day , and the Lights snuffed every Night , as often as there shall be occasion .

And it shall be agreed , That the said Lights shall yearly be of the same Dimentions and Goodness as the Pattern to be given in .

And for further Encouragement to the City to give a Grant hereof , We will be obliged to pay the Lord Mayor and Commonalty , the Sum of Eight Hundred Pounds yearly , on the Twentieth of May ; they obliging themselves , not to permit any other Publick Lights to be set up in the City , during the Time of their Grant .