Volume 2

The records of the Commissioners of Sewers in the Parts of Holland, 1547-1603 / edited by A. Mary Kirkus.

  • Great Britain. Courts of Sewers.
Date:
1959-
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The records of the Commissioners of Sewers in the Parts of Holland, 1547-1603 / edited by A. Mary Kirkus. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    extendyng from the place called the Grenynes as well unto a place called Foulleares Stacke 1& so to South Lake by . . . Syngle Sole & so to Thorney? the which ought for to be clensed by John Dorant & Robert Anarton the fyshares ther of? .. . Grenes & the other to ... by the proffyt takers of . . . within the partes of Borow Soke and that from Folwerd Stakyng to Weyland there ys a lyke drene called Sowthlake to be repayred by the... thereof and ys... stopped as more att large appereth in the other verdytt of the 9[473. VIII.14b] 160 presentment of the deg’.? (South Eye to Perkyns Cote by the lord of Bedford or his tenantes) Item the same jurye seathe that the commone swere called Southe Eye extendyng from Dowssdall southe syde unto a place called Perkynes Cote is in great ruyng & decaye for lacke of hafyng rodyng clensyng & scowryng which ought to be done by the lord of Bedforthe, or by his tennantes or fermmers of Thornay. [Numbered at the bottom:] 23 (473. VIII.15] 161 ‘(T]he vardett of the degreffes for the townshepe of Molltone at the sessions of [the]sewars holden at Bostone the viij day of October in the yeare .. . [Gjod 1565 in the sevent yeare of the rayng of owre sovrun lade Elezabayth by the gras of God of Yngland France & Irland quene. [Fijrst the jury saith upone ther othes that ther ys one dyck or bank in Molltone called the Lowe Dycck ys in rewyng & decaye in dyvars places [that is] to say our soverane lade the quene for v rodes Rychard Boolls esquiar for v rodes John Bygott of Molltone in too bankes of . . . said Lowe Dycck for x rod & the ayres of Scarlytes in the same dycck i1ij rodes John Blanke in the same dycck iilj rod Robert [Dor]bagge in the same dycck iiij rod & the fefers of the scolle of Molltone for iiij rodes & the Collegge of Saynct Johns in Cambrig . . . Cranwels landes 111) rodes. Item the sayd jury sayth that ther ys on other dyccke or bank called the Goole Dycck in Mollton ys defecttyve in dyvars places that ys to say the quines maieste in the same dycck xx rod Thomas Halle in the same dycck iiij rod Thomas Kynge sennior in the same dyck iiij rod Jhone Martyng in the same dycck iiij rodes John Bygott in the same dyk for ij bankes viij rod & the ayres of Sanders iiij rodes Gylbart Lynsay in the sam dycck iiij rodes Robert Dor- bagge of Molton in the same dycck iiij rodes. Item the sayd jury sayth that ther ys on other dyck or bank in Moltone called Garners Dycck otherwyse cald Ravensdyke ys defectyve in dyvars places that ys to say the quines maieste in the 1-1, 2-2 These sections have been added in another hand which is almost illegible. 3 14a and 14b appear to have been one folio. A cut has been made through the middle of what is now the bottom line on 14a.
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