Profit, conveniency, and pleasure, to the whole nation being a short rational discourse, lately presented to His Majesty, concerning the high-ways of England : their badness, the causes thereof, the reasons of those causes, the impossibility of ever having them well-mended according to the old way of mending, but may most certainly be done, and for ever so maintained (according to this new way) substantially, and with very much ease : and so that in the very depth of winter there shall not be much dirt, no deep-cart-rutts, or high-ridges, no holes, or vneven places, nor so much as a loose stone (the very worst of evils both to man and horse) in any of the horse-tracts, nor shall any person have cause to be once put out of his way in any hundred of miles riding.
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Profit, conveniency, and pleasure, to the whole nation being a short rational discourse, lately presented to His Majesty, concerning the high-ways of England : their badness, the causes thereof, the reasons of those causes, the impossibility of ever having them well-mended according to the old way of mending, but may most certainly be done, and for ever so maintained (according to this new way) substantially, and with very much ease : and so that in the very depth of winter there shall not be much dirt, no deep-cart-rutts, or high-ridges, no holes, or vneven places, nor so much as a loose stone (the very worst of evils both to man and horse) in any of the horse-tracts, nor shall any person have cause to be once put out of his way in any hundred of miles riding.
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Mace, Thomas, d. 1709?
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[London :: s.n.],
Printed for a publick good in the year 1675.
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Roads -- England.
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"Profit, conveniency, and pleasure, to the whole nation being a short rational discourse, lately presented to His Majesty, concerning the high-ways of England : their badness, the causes thereof, the reasons of those causes, the impossibility of ever having them well-mended according to the old way of mending, but may most certainly be done, and for ever so maintained (according to this new way) substantially, and with very much ease : and so that in the very depth of winter there shall not be much dirt, no deep-cart-rutts, or high-ridges, no holes, or vneven places, nor so much as a loose stone (the very worst of evils both to man and horse) in any of the horse-tracts, nor shall any person have cause to be once put out of his way in any hundred of miles riding." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A50205.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 8, 2024.
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The certain way to keep and maintain the High-wayes firm and good for ever.
I Will first suppose, That the Wayes are thus regulated, cleansed, and firmly once mended, according to the Order prescribed: And that two dayes have pass'd since this work was done.
Now in these two dayes time,* 1.1 there are pretty deep Cart-rutts made again, but in twice two dayes, much more deep, and in a week or fort∣nights time, so deep, and with high Ridges, that it will occasion a Horse to stumble in going a∣cross.
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This is the first beginning, and the chiefest cause of the ruine of all High-wayes.
How easily might this be mended,* 1.2 if there were appointed but a Labouring man daily to look after them; so far as he might well walk in one day, and back again, with his Shovel, or Rake in his hand, and only be carefull but to turn those little Ridges into the Cart-rutts again, and the work were done.
And then again the next day, and so day after day, all the year throughout: In which work, he should not suffer so much as one loose Stone to lye or continue in either of the Horse-Tracks, nor any the least unevenness to occasion a Horse to stumble or fall; and in this posture might one man keep his 5, 6, 7, 8, or 10 miles firm, perfect and good all the year long.