A Narrative of the dreyning of the Great Level of the fenns, extending into the counties of Northampton, Norfolke, Suffolke, Lincolne, Cambridge and Huntington, and the Isle of Ely, containing about three hundred thousand acres

A briefe relation discovering plainely the true causes why the great levell of fenns in the severall counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, Huntington, Northampton, and Lincolne shires, being three hundred and seven thousand acres of low-lands, have been drowned and made unfruitfull for many yeares past : and as briefly how they may be drained, and preserved from inundation in the times to come : humbly presented to the honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament /
by: Burrell, Andrewes
Published: (1642)

A discourse concerning the drayning of fennes and surrounded grounds in the sixe countreys of Norfolke, Suffolke, Cambridge with the Isle of Ely, Huntington, Northampton, and Lincolne
by: H. C.
Published: (1629)

A briefe relation discovering plainely the true causes why the great levell of fenns in the severall counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, Huntington, Northampton, and Lincolne shires; being three hundred and seven thousand acres of low-lands, have been drowned, and made unfruitfull for many yeares past. : And as briefly how they may be drained, and preserved from inundation in the times to come. Humbly presented to the Honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament. by Andrewes Burrell, gent.
by: Burrell, Andrewes
Published: (1642)

An act for the necessary maintenance of the work of dreining the great levell of the fenns.
Published: (1661)

An act for the necessary maintenance of the work of dreining the great levell of the fenns
Published: (1661)

The state of the account and contest between the old and new adventurers in Bedford-Levell : containing 365000 arces [sic] of fenns, lying in Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge-shire, Huntington-shire, Northhampton-shire, Lincoln-shire, and the Isle of Ely : humbly represented (by the parties dispossest of their shaares therein) to the right honourable the lords of His Majesty's Privy Council, in pursuance of an order there the 24th of Octob. 1662.
Published: (1663)

The Earle of Lindsey his title, by which himselfe and his participants doe claime 24000 acres of land in the fennes in Lincolnshire
by: Killigrew, William, Sir, 1606-1695
Published: (1654)

The Earle of Lindsey his title, by which himselfe and his participants doe claime 24000 acres of land in the fennes in Lincolnshire.
by: Killigrew, William, Sir, 1606-1695
Published: (1654)

News from the fens, or, An Answer to a pamphlet entituled, Navigation prejudiced by the fen-drainers : (published lately in defense of the petition of Lin, delivered to the Committee for petitions) : wherein is set forth the vanity and falsehood of that discourse, and it is proved that navigation is meliorated by the fen-drainers /
Published: (1654)

Observations on the means of better draining the middle and south levels of the fenns : addressed to the landed and commercial interests affected by the bill proposed to be brought into Parliament /

An Answer (to a printed paper dispersed by Sir John Maynard entituled, The humble petition of the owners and commoners of the towne of Isleham in the county of Cambridge, and to the exceptions thereto annexed against the Act for the dreyning of the great level of the fennes) : whereby the honour and justice of the late Parliament is vindicated, the scandals and untruths in the said printed paper discovered, some vaine objections answered, and the truth of the proceedings in the work of dreyning (so much conducing to the honour and profit of the Common-wealth) held forth to all sober and uninteressed [sic] persons.
Published: (1653)

An Answer (to a printed paper dispersed by Sir John Maynard entituled, The humble petition of the owners and commoners of the towne of Isleham in the county of Cambridge, and to the exceptions thereto annexed against the Act for the dreyning of the great level of the fennes) : whereby the honour and justice of the late Parliament is vindicated, the scandals and untruths in the said printed paper discovered, some vaine objections answered, and the truth of the proceedings in the work of dreyning (so much conducing to the honour and profit of this Common-wealth) held forth to all sober and uninteressed [as printed] persons.

Spalding law of sewers, in hæc verba, for enlarging Shir-Dreyn, alias Clows-Cross Dreyn : being the original contract made betwixt South Holland and Wisbech-hundred, on the one part, and Sir Tho. Cecil, and many other owners of North-Level, then called Thorney-Fenns ... statutes, laws, orders, ordinances, and constitutions of sewers made, enacted ... at Spalding ... for the several counties of Lincoln, Northhampton, Huntington, and Cambridge ... /
Published: (1726)

A Discourse conserning the drayning of fennes /
Published: (1976)

The picklock of the old Fenne project: or, Heads of Sir John Maynard his severall speeches, /
by: Maynard, John, Sir, 1604-1690
Published: (1650)

By the King, a proclamation for the preservation of the great level of the fens, called Bedford level, and of the works made for the dreining of the same
Published: (1662)

By the King, a proclamation for the preservation of the great level of the fens, called Bedford level, and of the works made for the dreining of the same.

A particular of the ninety five thousand acres of fenny and low surrounded grounds, : lying within the great level of the fens. Which by an act of Parliament of the 29 of May, 1649. were alloted to William Earle of Bedford, his participants and adventurers for dreyning of the same.
Published: (1653)

Court minutes of the Surrey & Kent Sewer Commission.
Published: (1909)

An act for the draining of the great level of the fens, extending it self into the counties of Northampton, Norfolk, Suffolk, Lincoln, Cambridge and Huntington, and the Isle of Ely, or some of them. : Die Martis, 29 Maii, 1649. An act for draining the great level of the fens, extending it self into the counties of Northampton, Norfolk, Suffolk, Lincoln, Cambridge and Huntington, and the Isle of Ely, or some of them. Was this day read the third time, and upon the question passed, and ordered to be forthwith printed and published: Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti.
Published: (1649)

Some strictures on the Ancholme drainage : address'd to the smaller non-commission'd freeholders and occupiers of land in that level.
by: Carter, Robert, of Redbourn
Published: (1773)

The Victoria history of the county of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely /
Published: (1938)

The report of John Golborne, engineer, concerning the drainage of the north level of the Fens, and the outfal of the Wisbeach River.
by: Golborne, John (Engineer)
Published: (1769)

The Anti-projector, or, The history of the Fen project.
Published: (1646)

The Anti-projector, or, The history of the Fen project
Published: (1646)

Reasons, humbly offered to the consideration of the Parliament; against the passing a bill, intituled An act for incorporating the undertakers for the dreining Deeping Fen.
Published: (1685)

The state of the case concerning the late Earl of Lindseys drayning the Fennes between Borne, Boston, and Lincolne
Published: (1650)

The draining of the Fens : projectors, popular politics, and state building in early modern England /
by: Ash, Eric H., 1972-
Published: (2017)

Observations, on the present state of the south level of the fens, with a proposed method : For the better drainage of that country, made by the desire of the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Townsend, master general of the Ordnance, and the Honourable the Corporation of Bedford Level. By Lieut. Page, (now Sir Thomas Hyde Page, knt.) of the corps of engineers.
by: Page, Thomas Hyde, Sir, 1746-1821

The designe for the perfect draining of the great level of the fens, called Bedford level, lying in Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, Huntingtonshire, Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire and the isle of Ely : as it was delivered to the honourable corporation for the draining of the said great level the 4th of June, 1664 : as also several objections answered since the delivery of the said designe now in agitation : and as for the new works intended in this designe appears in the annexed map : and the charge of the whole calculated /
by: Dodson, William

The designe for the perfect draining of the great level of the fens, called Bedford level, lying in Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, Huntingtonshire, Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire and the isle of Ely : as it was delivered to the honourable corporation for the draining of the said great level the 4th of June, 1664 : as also several objections answered since the delivery of the said designe now in agitation : and as for the new works intended in this designe appears in the annexed map : and the charge of the whole calculated /
by: Dodson, William
Published: (1665)

Reasons humbly offer'd to the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembl'd, : against a bill brought into that honourable house, by Sir Robert Killegrew and others, undertakers and participants for the pretended draining of Lindsey level in Lincolnshire.
Published: (1660)

Report of James Golborne, engineer, on the drainage of Keyingham level in Holderness.
by: Golborne, James

Observations resulting from surveys, levels and views made on the east fen, the low grounds and fens adjoining thereto, belonging to the soke of Bolingbroke, East Holland, and the level towns : with a report of the causes of their present drowned state and condition : also schemes for the drainage thereof, and estimates of the expence of executing those schemes, &c. /
by: Grundy, John
Published: (1774)

The result of a particular view of the north level of the Fens : taken in August, 1745.
by: Labelye, Charles, 1705-1781?
Published: (1748)

Laws, ordinances and decrees made upon Friday the twentieth day of July, 1666, and in the eighteenth year of the reign of our sovereign lord, Charles the Second ... /
Published: (1666)