Proposals of a New Model for Rebuilding the City of LONDON, with Houses, Streets and Wharves, to be forthwith set out by His Majesty's and the City Surveyors: With the Advantages that will accrue by the Building the same accordingly, Viz. I. The Owners satisfied for their Ground, the Builder for Building, and the Poor Inhabitants their Losses by the Fire. II. The City built stately with large Streets, the Houses not in Danger of Fire, and the Ground all put to the best Profit. III. The People will walk easy and dry, the Houses-of-Office and Streets kept sweet and clean; and Goods delivered much cheaper. IU. Convenient Houses, Shops, Warehouses and Wharves not dear. V Advanced to His Majesty by Fines 372670 l. VI A Revenue for ever settled upon the Crown of per Ann. 223517 l. 10 s. I. ONE Row of Buildings fronting towards the River of Thames from the Temple to the Tower-Deck, to be built uniform with Stone or Brick; the Front, Backside, and Partition-walls, at least one Brick and a half thick, from the Bottom to the Top; the Cellars arched with Brick, or Stone, ten Foot high, and fifteen Foot wide, with two Vaults before each Door in the Street, of the same Bigness, and shall stand at least eighty Foot from the High-Water Mark, and shall be all thirty Foot in the Front, and twenty-five Foot deep, and four Stories high, besides the Cellars and Roofs: The two first Stories ten Foot high each, and the two uppermost Stories eight Foot high each; and there shall be no Garden, Yard, or Backside, belonging to them; but shall have Houses built after the same Manner close to the Backside of them, fronting towards the North, with a Shore between every two Houses to the Thames; over which shall be to each House (both on the Foreside and Backside) an House-of-Office, and a Piazza of ten Foot wide, paved with free Stone for People to walk dry and easy upon, with the Houses continued over it. The Signs and Sign-Posts to be of Iron or Copper; and an open newel of six Foot wide and twenty Foot long between every four Houses, to give Light to their several Staircases, in which their Houses-of-Office shall be. II. Two Streets of sixty Foot wide each: One from St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet to Tower-Hill; and the other from Holborn-Bridge and Goldsmith's Rents to Newgate; and then to Leaden-hall-street, with a Common-Sewer in the Middle of each, of six Foot high and four Foot wide, with Houses and Piazzas on both Sides built as before. III. Twenty-two Streets of thirty Foot wide each, and each a Common-Sewer; ten whereof shall go in Length from the Temple to Tower-Hill, ten more whereof from Fetter-lane or Goldsmith's Rents, to the Old-Bailey; and then towards Tower-Hill and Crutched-Friars; and the other two from Shoe-lane towards Bishopsgate street; between every of which shall be built Houses after the same Manner, with Piazzas on both Sides of five Foot wide, paved and built over as before. iv Six cross Streets of sixty Foot wide each, with each a Common-Sewer as before, viz. One from Goldsmith's Rents by the Temple to the Thames; one from Smithfield-down the Old Bailey to the Thames; one from Aldersgate to St. Paul's Church, and then to Paul's Wharf; one from Cripplegate to Queenhith; one from Moorgate to Dowgate-stairs; and one from Bishopsgate-street to London-Bridge, together with the Houses on both Sides of the Cutt, to have Piazzas of ten Foot wide built over as before. V Six other cross Streets of thirty Foot wide each, with each a Common-Sewer as before: One leading from Shoe-lane to the Thames; one from Holborn-Conduit to the Thames; one from Christ-Church by the West-End of St. Paul's Church to the Thames; one from the Middle of the Wall between Aldersgate and Cripplegate to the Thames; one from the Middle of the Wall between Cripplegate and Moorgate to the Thames; and one from the Postern-Gate in moorfield's to the Thames, with Piazzas on both Sides of them, of five Foot wide, paved and built over as before. VI A Cut of thirty Foot wide for the Thames to run in, and Barges to swim in at High Water, leading from Billingsgate up St. Mary-Hill to Fenchurch-street, and so winding through Grace-church-street to Broad-street, and then down Lothbury to Holborn-Bridge, and from Hockley in the Hole by Clerkenwell to Bridewell-Dock, with Wharves on both Sides of eighty Foot wide, (which Cutt will cost nothing digging, because that which comes out of it will be useful in the Buildings). The Stone of all the Churches burnt, and the Bricks and Rubbish lying upon the Ground (except St. Paul's, St. Bride's, St. Sepulchre's, Christ-Church and Bow) to be pulled down, and taken towards making good the Walls of the said Cutt. VII. The Owners of all the Ground to have their Proportions respectively set out as near the Place where it was, as may be, and to be enjoined to let the same to build at the Rate of 3 s. per Foot per Ann. for every Foot in the Front, (which shall be twenty-five Foot deep) for ever. VIII. The Builders to have eight per Cent. for ever, for all the moneys they shall lay out in Building, secured by a Rent-Charge upon the House or Houses they shall build. IX. Each House in the Streets of sixty Foot wide, and by the Thames, to be for 70 l. Fine, and 70 l. per Ann. for twenty-one Years, (which will cost but 250 l. apiece building; and each in the Streets of thirty Foot wide, for 50 l. Fine, and 50 l. per Ann. for the like Time (which will cost but 200 l. apiece building) and not for more or less: Out of which the Ground-Rent shall be first paid, which will be 4 l 10 s. for every House; next the Builder his 8 per Cent. which will be for some Houses 10 l. each, and for others 16 l. each; and the Remainder which will be 45 l. 10 s. for some, and 29 l. 10 s. for others, with all the Fines, shall be paid to the King, his Heirs, and Successors, towards the Maintenance of his Forces by Sea and Land; out of which shall be first paid, and satisfied, to every Person that hath lost by the Fire, such a Proportion as the Parliament shall think fit. There will be in the Great Streets, and by the Thames, 891 Houses; In the Lesser 6206, and 800 Wharves, which will amount to per Ann. 223517 l. 10 s. Besides the Ground-Rent and Builder s. And the Fines for the Houses and Wharves will amount to 372670 l. 20 Sept. 1666. VAL. KNIGHT.