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Chas.II.23rd June, 1662. [8] We have been unable to refer to this tract, there being no copy of it in the British Museum. [9] NASH'S Worcestershire, i.
306. [10] JOHN CHAMBERS, Biographical Illustrations of Worcestershire. London, 1820. [11] The Act for making the Stour and Salwarp navigable originated in the Lords and was passed in the year 1661. [12] Nash, in his Hist.
of Worc., intimates that Lord Windsor subsequently renewed the attempt to make the Salwarp navigable.
He constructed five out of the six locks, and then abandoned the scheme. Gough, in his edition of Camden's Brit.ii.357, Lond.
1789, says, "It is not long since some of the boats made use of in Yarranton's navigation were found.
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