The case for making the rivers Aire and Calder in the county of York navigable to Leeds and Wakefield This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B42104 of text R173430 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 B42104 688634668 ocn 688634668 Wing C865B

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 eng Waterways -- England -- Early works to 1800. Inland navigation -- England -- Early works to 1800. Inland water transportation -- England -- Early works to 1800. Aire River (England) Calder, River (West Yorkshire, England) Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo The case for making the rivers Aire and Calder in the county of York navigable to Leeds and Wakefield. n/a 1699 2 488 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
THE CASE For Making the Rivers AIRE and CALDER , in the County of YORK , Navigable to LEEDS and WAKEFIELD .

THAT there now is , and for many Years past has been , a very great Trade carried on in the Manufacture of Woollen Cloth , and other Merchandizes and Commodities , from the Towns of Leeds and Wakefield , Hallifax , Ealand , Keighley , Burstal , Bradford Bingley , Otley , Skipton , Huddersfield , Peninston , Houley , Horbury , Almondbury , Dewsbury , Mirfield , and many other Towns in the West Riding of the County of York , and Ratchdale and Colne in the County of Lancaster ; which Trade is very Advantageous to His Majesty's Customs , and very Beneficial to His Majesty's Subjects , many Thousands of Families being thereby maintained , who without it are not able to subsist .

BUT , by reason the Traders from the said Places are forced to carry their Commodities , some Twenty , some Thirty , and others Forty Miles , before they come to a Navigable River , which is extreamly Expensive , and attended with very great Damages to the Goods sent down . This Trade is much hindred , and the High-ways mightily damaged , and the Country put to a great Expence to Repair the same , and notwithstanding such Repairs , yet the Ways are made altogether impassable in Winter-time for ordinary Country Carts and Carriages , by reason of the great number of Carriages , to the great Prejudice of that Country .

THAT the making of these Rivers Navigable , which are proposed to be done no otherwise than by a Voluntary Contribution of the Neighbouring Towns , Gentlemen and Freeholders , will not only mightily Encourage and Increase Trade in the Northern Parts , and especially that of the Woollen Manufacture , by a more easie and cheap conveyance of Wooll , and all other Commodities that are made use of in the said Manufacture .

BUT will also preserve the High-ways , and keep them from being at any time impassable , and save much Money laid out in Repairing the same .

IT will likewise advance His Majesty's Customs , and increase Watermen and Boatmen , and consequently Seamen .

IT will Employ a great many Persons in making the same Navigable , and when made , a great number of Men , Boats , and Horses .

WHEREFORE it is Humbly hoped , That this Undertaking will have the Assistance and Encouragement of this Honourable House , for the Effecting of so good a Work , and which so highly conduces to the Benefit of the Publick ; And to the removing of those great Inconveniencies which the said Country and Traders in the Woollen Manufacture labour under , by reason of their great Distance from a Navigable River .