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• Sailing directions intended to be used with John Hamilton Moore's Chart of the coasts of England and Holland, including the navigation from the South-Foreland to Lynn-Deeps, and from Calais to the Texel: describing the head-lands, rivers, roads, rocks, sands, shoals, banks, depths of water, anchorages, &c., &c. / by several able coasters and pilots. (Published by John Hamilton Moore, chartseller, 1796), by John Hamilton Moore (page images at HathiTrust)

• England's safety, or, A bridle to the French King proposing a sure method for encouraging navigation, and raising qualified seamen for the well manning Their Majesties fleet on any occasion, in a months time, without impressing, and a competent provision for all such as shall be wounded in service against the enemy, either in Their in Their Majesties ships of war, privatiers, or merchant men, to encourage the better defending them : also an in-fight into the advantages may be made by the herring and other fisheries, in respect to the breeding of seamen, and otherwise : together with a proposal for the maintenance and education of the male children ... : also encouragement for commanders of men of war, privatiers and seamen, in taking any ship, or effects of the enemies, and all to be done, without any sensible charge or burthern to the kingdom / by Captain George St. Lo... (London : Printed for W. Miller ..., 1693), by George St. Lo (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A survey of the river Avon, from Bath, to Bristol, by experienc'd artists with their opinion of the difficulty, and charges to make the same navigable. ([London : s.n., 1669-1700]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A true relation of the trauels of M. Bush, a gentleman who with his owne handes without any other mans helpe made a pynace, in which hee past by ayre, land, and water: from Lamborne, a place in Bark.shire, to the Custome house Key in London. 1607 (London : Printed by T[homas] P[urfoot] for Nathaniel Butter, 1608), by Anthony Nixon (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Mediterranean passage by water between the two sea towns Lynn & Yarmouth. (London : printed by Gartrude Dawson, 1656), by Francis Mathew (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Of the opening of rivers for navigation, the benefit exemplified, by the two Avons of Salisbury and Bristol. : with a Mediterranean passage by water for billanders of thirty tun, between Bristol and London, with the results. (London : Printed by G. Dawson, 1660), by Francis Mathew (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Reasons against making the river Darwent, in the county of Derby, navigable I. The mayor and burgesses of Derby, have thrice heretofore attempted, without success, the making this river navigable. ... ([London : s.n., 1698-99]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Answer to Mr. Fords book. (London : printed by R.H., 1641), by W. Roberts (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The case for making the rivers Aire and Calder in the county of York navigable to Leeds and Wakefield ([London : s.n., 1699]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The case of the Corporation of the Great Level of the Fenns; relating to a bill depending in Parliament, for the better preservation of the navigation of the port of Kings-Lynn; which bill is for taking away the sluce at Denver-Dam, upon the river of Great Owze, in the County of Norfolk. ([London? : s.n., 1665]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Of the opening of rivers for navigation, the benefit exemplified, by the two Avons of Salisbury and Bristol. : with a Mediterranean passage by water for billanders of thirty tun, between Bristol and London, with the results. (London : Printed by G. Dawson, 1660), by Francis Mathew (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The coasting pilot: Describing the sea-coasts, channels, soundings, sands, shoals, rocks, & dangers: the bayes, roads, harbours, rivers, ports, buoyes, beacons, and sea-marks, upon the coasts of England Flanders and Holland with directions to bring a shipp into any harbour on the said coasts. Being furnished with the new draughts, charts, and descriptions, gathered from ye experience and practise of diverse able and expert navigators of our English nation. / Collected and published by John Seller. Hydrographer in ordinary to the King. ([London] : And are to be sold at his Shopps at the hermitage in Wapping: And in Exchange-Alley in Corne-Hill. And by W. Fisher at the Posterne on Towerhill: And by Jo. Wingfield in Crutched Fryars right against the Church, [1671?]), by John Seller (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• An act for making navigable the river of VVye. Thursday, the 26th of June, 1651. Ordered by the Parliament, that this Act be forthwith printed and published. Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti. (London : Printed by John Field, Printer to the Parliament of England, 1651), by England and Wales Parliament (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Synēgoros thalassios, A vievv of the admiral jurisdiction wherein the most material points concerning that jurisdiction are fairly and submissively discussed : as also divers of the laws, customes, rights, and priviledges of the high admiralty of England by ancient records, and other arguments of law asserted : whereunto is added by way of appendix an extract of the ancient laws of Oleron / by John Godolphin ... (London : Printed by W. Godbid for Edmund Paxton ... and John Sherley ..., 1661), by John Godolphin (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An act for preventing injuries and wrongs done to merchants at sea, in their persons, ships or goods; and prohibiting mariners from serving under forraign princes or states without license. Die Sabbathi, 13⁰ Aprilis, 1650. Ordered by the Parliament, that this Act be forthwith printed and published. Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti. (London : printed by Edward Husband and Iohn Field, printers to the Parliament of England, 1650), by England and Wales (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An act for increase of shipping, and encouragement of the navigation of this nation. Thursday the ninth of October, 1651. Ordered by the Parliament, that this act be forthwith printed and published. Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti. (London : Printed by John Field, Printer to the Parliament of England, 1651), by England and Wales Parliament (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Proclamations. 1591-07-21 ([Imprinted at London : By the deputies of Christopher Barker, printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie, [1591]]), by England and Wales Privy Council and England and Wales. Sovereign (1558-1603 : Elizabeth I) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Proclamations.1603-09-30 ([Imprinted at London : by Robert Barker, printer to the Kings most excellent Maiestie, anno Dom. 1603]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• An Act for constituting commissioners for ordering and managing the affairs of the Admiralty and Navy. (Printed by Iohn Field, Printer to the Parliament of England, 1653), by England and Wales, Henry Scobell, John Field, and England and Wales Parliament (page images at HathiTrust)
• An act appointing judges for the admiralty. (London : Printed by John Field, Printer to the Parliament. And are to be sold at the seven Stars in Fleetstreet, over against Dunstans Church, 1659), by England and Wales Parliament (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An act for continuing the jurisdiction of the Court of Admiralty. (London : Printed by John Field, Printer to the Parliament of England, 1651), by England and Wales Parliament (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Remarks on the observations, offer'd by a true English-man who is not a sailor, tho' of long service in the navy. (London : Printed, and sold by the book-sellers of London and Westminster, 1699) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Proclamations. 1591-07-21 ([Imprinted at London : By the deputies of Christopher Barker, printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie, [1591]]), by England and Wales Privy Council and England and Wales. Sovereign (1558-1603 : Elizabeth I) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• These points are desired to be determined in the Admirall Court, although the agreement touching the same were made upon the land ([London? : s.n., 1664?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Public General Acts. Selections: Royal Navy (London : printed by S. Bridge in Austin Friers, MDCXCVII. [1697]), by England and Wales (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Arcana clericalia, or, The mysteries of clarkship being a sure way of setling estates by [brace] deeds, fines, and recoveries : with the forms of all manner of charter-parties in maritime cities, towns and corporations : with a table of all the principle matters therein contained / by George Billinghurst ... (London : Printed for Henry Twyford ..., 1674), by George Billinghurst (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The case of John Degrave, Francis Minshall and others, owners of the seven sail of ships taken up in July, 1697 by the Commissioners of the Transport. Humbly presented to the honourable House of Commons, that the transport did endeavour to hire ships to carry provisions to Newfoundland, but it being so late in the year were generally refused because it was so extreamly dangerous to undertake; They would not run the hazard of their shippng and men in so difficult and undertaking. ([London : s.n., 1700]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• At the court at Whitehall, the seventeenth day of January, 1676/7 by the Kings most excellent Majesty, and the Right Honourable the Lords of His Majesties Most Honourable Privy-Council. Whereas upon the humble petition of Sir John Clayton knight, setting forth, that by vertue of His Majesties letters patents he had erected at above two thousand pounds charge, several light-houses upon the northern coasts, for the benefit of navigation. ([London : s.n., 1677]), by Edward Walker and England and Wales Privy Council (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• An answer to a book intituled "An inquiry into facts, and observations thereon : humbly submitted to the candid examiner into the principles of a bill intended to be offered to Parliament, for the preservation of the great level of the Fens, and the navigation through the same, by a tax on the lands, and a toll on the navigation" : wherein the claim of the adventurers on the navigations, for assistance in draining and preserving the Fens, is impartially inquired into, and the conduct of the drainers and the oppressive designs of the present bill are exhibited in their true light. (Printed by H. Goldney for T. Cadell, 1778) (page images at HathiTrust)

• An answer to a book intituled "An inquiry into facts, and observations thereon : humbly submitted to the candid examiner into the principles of a bill intended to be offered to Parliament, for the preservation of the great level of the Fens, and the navigation through the same, by a tax on the lands, and a toll on the navigation" : wherein the claim of the adventurers on the navigations, for assistance in draining and preserving the Fens, is impartially inquired into, and the conduct of the drainers and the oppressive designs of the present bill are exhibited in their true light. (Printed by H. Goldney for T. Cadell, 1778) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memoirs of the principal events in the life of Henry Taylor of North Shields : wherein are interspersed the circumstances that led to the fixing of lights in Hasboro' Gatt, the Godwin, and Sunk Sands. (Printed by T. Appleby ;, 1811), by Henry Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)

• A letter to the traders and carriers on the navigations connecting Liverpool and Manchester, showing the easy means...of establishing...an elegant and comfortable conveyance for passengers... (J. Smith & son;, 1834), by Thomas Grahame (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ancient and present state of the navigation of the towns of Lyn, Wisbeach, Spalding, and Boston : of the rivers that pass through those places, and the countries that border thereupon, truly, faithfully, and impartially represented ; and humbly proposed to the consideration of the inhabitants of those places and countries ; with a way laid down to remedy all the inconveniencies and defects which they now labour under. (Printed for J. Noon, at the White-Hart in the Poultry ;, 1751), by Charles Kinderley (page images at HathiTrust)
• A new method of Robert Colepepyr, Gent., for speedy and effectual preservation of the navigation on the River Thames and to repair the water-breach in to Havering and Dagenham levels in Essex ... ([London : s.n., 1700?]), by Robert Colepepyr (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An answer to the objections, against making the river Darwent navigable: ([London : s.n., 1695]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An answer to the objections of the citizens of York, against the bill for making navigable the rivers Aire and Calder: ([London? : s.n., 1698]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Of the opening of rivers for navigation the benefit exemplified by the two Avons of Salisbury and Bristol : with a Mediterranean passage by water for billanders of thirty tun, between Bristol and London, with the results. (London : Printed by James Cottrel, 1655), by Francis Mathew (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A mediterranean passage by water, from London to Bristol, &c., and from Lynne to Yarmouth, and so consequently to the city of York for the great advancement of trade & traffique / by Francis Mathew, Esquire. (London : Printed by Thomas Newcomb, MDCLXX [1670]), by Francis Mathew (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A mediterranean passage by water, from London to Bristol, &c., and from Lynne to Yarmouth, and so consequently to the city of York for the great advancement of trade & traffique / by Francis Mathew, Esquire. (London : Printed by Thomas Newcomb, MDCLXX [1670]), by Francis Mathew (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The history of inland navigations. Particularly those of the Duke of Bridgwater, in Lancashire and Cheshire; and the intended one promoted (Printed for T. Lowndes, 1766), by James Brindley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on various projected lines of navigation from Sheffield. (Printed by J. Montgomery, 1813), by William Chapman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The canal system of England: its growth and present condition, with particular reference to the cheap carriage of goods. (T.F. Unwin, 1903), by H. Gordon Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Études pratiques sur la navigation du centre, de l'est et du nord de la France, et des principales voies navigables de la Belgique. (Carilian-Goeury et V. Dalmont, 1841), by François Aulagnier, Adolphe Angeville, and George Rennie (page images at HathiTrust)
• A general history of inland navigation, foreign and domestic; containing a complete account of the canals already executed in England with considerations on those projected. (J. Taylor and C. and R. Baldwin, 1803), by J. Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• The "Flower of Gloster," (Williams and Norgate, 1911), by E. Temple Thurston (page images at HathiTrust)
• A report and survey of the canal, proposed to be made on one level, from Waltham-abbey to Moorfields. Also a report and survey, of a line, which may be continued from Marybone to the said proposed canal, in case any future design of navigation to that place, or the north side of London, from the rivers Thames or Coln, should ever take place. ([London, 1773), by Robert Whitworth and James Sharp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Institution of Civil Engineers, March 30, 1858 Charles Hutton Gregory, Esq., member of council, in the chair. (s.n., 1858), by Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorial to Board of Trade, November 1886, by Public and Canal Navigations with respect to Acquisition by Great Western Railway Company of Thames and Severn Canal (1887), by Great Britain Parliament House of Commons and Great Britain Board of Trade (page images at HathiTrust)
• Canal policy, no. I[-IV]. : It must be highly gratifying to all those who have any interest in, or wish to promote, the solid prosperity of this country, to find that the public interest is every where attracted towards the important object of facilitating the intercourse between the different states ... ([Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] : [publisher not identified], [1824], 1824), by Mathew Carey (page images at HathiTrust)
• A report on the cost and separate advantages of a ship canal and of a rail-way, from Newcastle to Carlisle : published by order of and addressed to the Committee of Enquiry (Printed by Edward Walker, 1824), by William Chapman and Committee for Enquiring as to a Better Communication Between Newcastle and Carlisle (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Letter to the Kensington Canal Company on the Substitution of the Pneumatic Railway for the Common Railway by Which They Contemplate Extending Their Line of Conveyance, by John Vallance (Gutenberg ebook)
• Through Canal-Land in a Canadian Canoe, by Vincent Hughes (Gutenberg ebook)
• A designe for bringing a navigable river from Rickmansworth in Hartfordshire to St. Gyles in the fields the benefits of it declared and the objections against it. (London : Printed for John Clarke, 1641), by Edward Ford (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Of the opening of rivers for navigation the benefit exemplified by the two Avons of Salisbury and Bristol : with a Mediterranean passage by water for billanders of thirty tun, between Bristol and London, with the results. (London : Printed by James Cottrel, 1655), by Francis Mathew (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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