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{"content": "That plenty of good and wholesome water is very useful and beneficial to great and populous cities, not only for ordinary occasions of the inhabitants, but in cases of fire and pestilential diseases, must be allowed by every body. It is notoriously known that due to the great increase of building in and about the cities of London and Westminster for many years past, the inhabitants thereof are in great want of water even for their ordinary occasions. In the case of fire, there has hardly been any one of late that has not seen the pipes (belonging to the New-River and other companies that now serve the town with water) broken up and found empty; and consequently useless towards extinguishing the fire. Therefore, no reasonable argument can be made against bringing greater quantities of water to the cities of London and Westminster than they now have, except that the means for achieving the same may cause more mischief to the country than the water will do good to the town.\nWhich cannot happen in this case; for no other damage will be done to the country than the taking away of water from one paper and leather-mill only, and the owners thereof, as well as His Grace the Duke of Somerset, through whose manor the water is proposed to be brought a great part of the way, and other proprietors of any lands, &c., will have full satisfaction from the adventurers for any loss or damage which they may sustain thereby, before the work will be allowed to be proceeded upon.\n\nNote, that special care will be taken that His Majesty's Royal Palace of Hampton-Court, as well as that of St. James's, shall be hereby better supplied with water than now they are. And that the mills upon the Old Cut or Thistleworth-River, belonging to His Grace the Duke of Somerset, and the mills upon Stanwell-Stream, shall be still supplied with as much, or more water, as they now have.\nAnd therefore, as no persons will be injured by this Undertaking and have no just cause for complaint against it, it is humbly hoped that all reasonable encouragement will be given to it. The New-River Company and other persons concerned in the waters already brought to London should not hinder or obstruct this work, which is so much needed and beneficial to the public.\n\nTo prevent any ill or fraudulent uses from being made by pretending to put up a company for these purposes, the present undertakers desire that such a company and all its funds for these purposes shall not apply any money paid in for these purposes to Marybone, and shall not use the money for any other purpose than the intended one.\nProposed is the liberty to use the rivers or streams that run through or by a village called Drayton, in Middlesex, after they have passed below the mills there. The water is then to be diverted from some part of the stream or river that runs above 100 yards below the mills, into the old cut or river that currently serves and supplies the Duke of Somerset's powder-mills on Hounslow-Heath. This old cut then runs down and empties into the Thames at the Duke's corn-mill at Thistleworth. Additionally, a cut is to be made from Cowley-Stream (near Drayton) into this old cut or Thistleworth-River directly. The water is then to be brought into a grand reservoir to be made in some part of Marybone-Fields. From this reservoir, parts of London and Westminster may be served plentifully with water.\nNote: I will clean the text as per the given requirements, but since the text is already in modern English and there are no obvious errors, I won't be making any corrections or translations. I will, however, remove unnecessary line breaks, whitespaces, and irrelevant information.\n\nTwo streams branch out of the River Colne: one supplies and works Drayton-Mills, and the other supplies and works the Mills at Cowley. These two streams unite just below Drayton-Mills Tail, and in about 300 or 400 yards, divide into three streams: the Heatham-Stream, the Stanwell-Stream, and the Old Cut or Thistleworth-River.\n\nOn the Heatham-Stream is only one Paper and Leather-Mill at Poyle, before it returns into the River Colne a little below Colne-Brook. On the Stanwell-Stream are two Paper-Mills (one not in use) and three Corn-Mills. On the Old or Thistleworth-River are the Duke of Somerset's Powder-Mills, Logwood-Mill, and Corn-Mill at Thistleworth.\nThe proposal is to divert water from the Heatham-Stream, which feeds only StarPoyle, into the Old or Thistleworth-Cut or River. The Stanwell-Stream, which will bring the water, is intended to supply the mills on it. The Duke of Somerset's mills, located on this Old Cut, will be amply supplied with greater quantities of water due to the influx from the Heatham-Stream and can be furnished with almost any quantity as needed.\nAndas to the New Cut that goes down to Hampton-Court, it is proposed to lay pipes, on some place on Hounslow-Heath where these Old and New Cuts do not run above forty yards apart, from the Old Cut into the New Cut, of a bore sufficient to convey more water from the Old into the New Cut than it now brings down from Longford. This will not only save the charge and trouble of keeping a long channel constantly cleansed and scoured, but by its receiving the water so much nearer home, and from such a great body as will be contained in this Old Cut when enlarged as intended, it will run down with much greater spirit and quickness than it now does, and consequently will be of greater use at Hampton-Court for many purposes.\n\nNo other mischief will be done to the country than taking away the Heatham-Stream from the paper and leather-mill at Poyle. And all other places situated near the water intended to be made use of, will reap the benefit thereby, including London and Westminster.", "creation_year": 1721, "creation_year_earliest": 1721, "creation_year_latest": 1721, "source_dataset": "EEBO", "source_dataset_detailed": "EEBO_Phase2"} |
