[Wharfs] The TEMPORAL GOVERNMENT. [and Keys]282

[Wharfs] The TEMPORAL GOVERNMENT. [and Keys]

then to contain six Foot more from East to West; and Northward from the River of Thames the said Passage to contain forty Foot. But in the meantime the said Stairs are hereby declared unlawful for the landing, lading or shipping of Goods or Merchandize.

13. SMARTS KEY, at the South end thereof, containing from East to West seven and twenty Foot two Inches, and extending Northward along the side of Billinsgate-Dock, one hundred seventy six Foot six Inches, and in all other parts extending from the said Dock Eastward forty Foot.

14. SOMERS KEY, containing from East to West, and including the passage leading to the Stairs on the East side thereof, seventy thrée Foot and a half, and from the River of Thames Northward forty Foot. But the place where the said Stairs now stand is hereby declared to be no lawful place of landing or shipping of Goods and Merchandize, until the Stairs be taken away.

15. LYON KEY, containing from East to West thirty six Foot nine Inches, and from the River of Thames Northward forty Foot. But no Stairs, as formerly, to be erected thereupon or thereunto.

16. BUTTOLPH WHARF, containing from East to West seventy eight Foot, and from the River of Thames Northward forty Foot in the narrowest place.

17. HAMMONS KEY, containing from East to West twenty thrée Foot, and from the River of Thames Northward forty Foot.

18. GAUNTS KEY, containing from East to West thirty one Foot, including the small Stairs on the East side thereof, and from the River of Thames Northward forty Foot. The said Stairs is hereby declared unlawful for shipping, lading or landing of Goods or Merchandize.

19. COCKS KEY, containing from East to West forty Foot eight Inches, and from the River of Thames Northward forty Foot in the narrowest place.

20. One other Place betwixt Cocks Key and Fresh Wharf, called part of Fresh Wharf, containing from East to West twenty five Foot, including the Stairs on the East side thereof, and Northward from the River of Thames forty Foot in the narrowest place. The said Stairs is hereby declared unlawful for shipping or landing of Goods.

21. FRESH WHARF, containing from East to West one hundred and fiftéen Foot, and from the River of Thames Northward forty Foot in the narrowest place.

ITEM, We do also humbly conceive and certifie, that the common Key or Place called Billinsgate, containing from North to South one hundred seventy one Foot and a half, and in Breadth from East to West forty Foot, to be a common open Place for the landing or bringing in of Fish, Salt, Victuals or Fuel of all sorts, and all native Materials for Building, and for Fruit (all manner of Grocery excepted) and for carrying out the same, and for no other Wares or Merchandize: And that if the Lord Maior and Aldermen of the City shall think fit to fill up any part of the said Dock at the North End thereof, not excéeding forty Foot in length, the same Ground so filled up may have the same Priviledge as the rest of the Wharf before described.

Billinsgate.

ITEM, We think fit, and humbly certifie, that the Bridgehouse in Southwark may be allowed as a Place convenient for the landing of any kind of Corn, bought or provided for the Provision or Victualling of the City, and not upon any private or particular Persons Accompt, and for no other Goods or Merchandize.

Bridgehouse.

ITEM, We think it reasonable, and do humbly advise, that it may be lawful for any Person to ship or lade into any Ship or Vessel on the River of Thames, bound over Seas, and lying betwéen London and Woolwich, any of the Goods or Merchandize hereafter mentioned, viz. Horses, Coals, Béer, ordinary Stones for Building, Fish taken by any of his Majesties Subjects, Corn or Grain; Provided that the Custom and Duties of such Goods be duly paid, and Cocquets or other lawful Warrants passed for the same, and delivered to the Searcher, or one of his Majesties Under-Searchers, and shipped in the presence of some of them, and in the presence of a Deputy, to such Persons as shall be appointed from time to time to manage or receive the Customs in the Port of London, and not otherwise.

ITEM, We humbly advise, that it may be lawful for any Person or Persons to unship and lay on Land Deal-Boards, Balks, and all sorts of Masts, and great Timber at any place of the River of Thames, betwixt Westminster and Limehouse-Dock; Provided the Owner of such Goods do first pay or compound for the Custom and other Duties, and declare the place at which they will land them, before they unship any of the Goods, to the Officers or Farmers of the Customs thereof for the time being, and receive Sufferance or Permission from them so do to; and that they unship none of the said Goods but in the presence of a Waiter or Officer appointed thereunto, unless by special License of the said Officers or Farmers of the Customs for the time being; otherwise the said Goods to be liable to Forfeiture according to Law.

And to the end the Buildings upon the Wharfs and Keys afore-named may be carried on with the most Conveniency, Regularity and Ornament, and be kept at forty Foot distance from the Wall, Key or Wharf which bounds the River of Thames, according to an Act of the now Parliament, lately pasted for rebuilding the City of London: We humbly advise, that it may be lawful for the Owners or Possessors of the several Wharfs called Lyon Key, Sommers Key, Dice Key and Sabs Dock, to fill up or wharf over and enlarge into the River of Thames so much as will make the Front of their Wall or Campshot range equally with the adjoining Keys or Wharfs, that is to say, that Lyon Key, the whole length thereof being thirty six Foot nine Inches, may be enlarged into the Thames eight Foot in breadth, to make it equal to the outmost point of Buttolph Wharf: And that Sommers Key, being seventy four Foot in length, may be enlarged into the Thames the same breadth of eight Foot from the said Lyon Key to Billinsgate: And that the Dock or Inlet at Dice Key, being fifty seven Foot in length, may be enlarged into the River of Thames twenty four Foot four Inches, to make it range equal with the other part of the said Key on the West side, and with Ralphs Key on the East side thereof: And that Sabs Dock, being now open in an irregular Form, may be arched, wharfed over, or filled up, to make the same front the Thames in a right range with the Walls or Campshots on both sides of it: And in case the said Keys and Dock, or any of them, shall be so filled up or wharfed over, we think it reasonable, that from thenceforth the general Wharf of forty Foot to be left next the Thames, be reduced accordingly.

Buildings.

And for further Ornament and Conveniency in the Buildings which shall be erected upon the said Wharfs to front the River of Thames, according to the Intent of the Act of Parliament for rebuilding the City, We think it necessary, and do declare, That if any of the said Houses or Buildings be intended for Warehouses, or hereafter so employed, yet nevertheless the two upper Stories and Garrets of the said Houses be made, and from time to time continued with glazed Windows: And if the said Stories or Garrets be made use of as Warehouses, and be made with Doors outward to receive in Goods, yet those Doors to be made in

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