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South Coast Harbours 1698
report by Edmund Dummer and Thomas Wiltshaw |
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Title, Address and Orders
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A SURVEY of the Ports on the South West Coast of England
from Dover to the Lands-end.
BY Edmd Dummer Surveyor & Capt. Tho. Wiltshaw Esqrs.
Comrs. of his Ma Navy together wth. Capt. James Conaway
& Capt. William Cruft Masters of Trinity House at
Deptford
DELINEATED in July & Augst. 1698
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Adressed By way of Letter to the Principal Officers and
Comrs. of his Maties. Navy.
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Gentn. |
Orders to Survey
ye: Coast
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Having receiv'd Your directions grounded upon the Orders of
the Rt. Honble the Lords of the Admty. of the 6th: of June
last, For taking a Survey of the Ports Westward of Dover as
farr as the Isle of Wight and thence to the Lands-end, and
to give their Lopps. an Account which way, and at what
Charge they may be made most usefull for ye Navy
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When ye Survey
Com~enced
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Wee did in pursuance of the Same proceed on the said Services
ye 4th. July last, and doe now present You with an Account of
all that Wee judge observable of Them, with relation to
the purposes of the said Order And thereunto Wee have annex'd
a Description of each Place with referrances to the
remarkable particulars of each Draught as their Condition
and place respectively require for their Explanation.
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And to the end You may take a fitt impression of the
advantages conceivable to be reaped by improvements for
the Services of the Navy, Within the Generall tract of the
Sea Coast which is menconed in the said Order, besides what
may be done at those Places which are already in use; Be
pleas'd in the First place
to
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to Observe that the particular Places Wee have Viewed for
the Same stand Named in their Course & Scituation from
the said Port of Dover Westward as follows Vizt.
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What place were
Surveyed
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| 1 |
Rye |
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| 2 |
Pemsey |
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| 3 |
Cookmere |
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| 4 |
Newhaven |
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| Rivers |
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| 5 |
Shoreham |
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| 6 |
Arundall |
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| 7 |
Hampton |
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| 8 |
Bussleton |
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| 9 |
Beauley |
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| 10 |
Lymington |
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| 11 |
Christ Church |
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| Ports |
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Poole |
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| 13 |
Weymouth |
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| 14 |
Exmouth |
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| 15 |
Dartmouth |
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| 16 |
Fowey |
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Falmouth |
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Helford |
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No remarkable
place omitted
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By which Catalogue and by viewing the Description of the said
Sea Coast in your Comon Mapps, you will perceive Wee have
refused noe remarkable Place how inconsiderable or unfitt
soever it might be for the purposes Wee were to enquire
after; Lest the Overlooking any of them might leave room to
doubt that compleatness in our Account as to the Sum Totall
of Places wch. Wee conceive in an implyed Sence was intended
to resolve the whole Question, Namely Whether there be any
beside the Ports now in use upon the sd. Sea Coast capable
of improvements, and which way and at what Charge to be made
most usefull for the Navy.
And having said thus much for a preliminary to the whole,
Wee shall proceed particularly upon each of them in their
Order before recited, Begining wth: the Antient Port of
Rye.
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museum inventory notes for the report |
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historical context of the report
notes by Adrian Webb |
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South Coast Harbours 1698
report by Edmund Dummer and Thomas Wiltshaw |
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