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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    and ot[her] . . . the said rever from Brother House untyll Clonys Ho[use] .. . to the hard bothom, and mayd of the wid[nes] .. . thus to be done will cost ij s. viij d. the rode which . . . which is the quens mayesties charge as for her severall fi[shing] . . . belonginge to the late monestarie of Spalding and from Cloyne[s] ... [con]teyneth in lenght syx hundreth and xij rodes after six score . . . rod which must be dyked from the said place aforsayd of the depth of iij foo[t]... the widnes of xl! foote untill the metinge of the watt[ers] .. . to be of the _widnes of thirti foote and this ch . . . which amounteth to the sum, nyne score, and iij which . . . as for her severall fysshinge in the same rever belonging to... [Spjalding And from Peck Bridge douneward to the see for the . . . is to be dikid one spit deper then it is now, and of .. . and this to be done at the charge of Deping Croulond Spalding .. . [MoJulton and all other commoners in Depinge and Spaldinge Fenne, and... done for the summe of xxx vj li. and so the same rever of Weylond .. . stratened of the widnes of xxiiijti foote from thend of the 11; Hundreth . . . aforsayd in divers places as shalbe thought met bevew untill... at Surflet toune end, and the said jettes to be may|d]... only will so instrat the rever and mak the owt fall so depe . . . so soround the bankes as it hath done hertofor and allso . .. 1n such pereil of drowninge as it will do yf this be not with all sp[eed] .. . this so dowing the diking of the rever of Weylond . . . of this jetteinge aforsaid must be done at the char[ge] of the inhaby- taunts [of] D{feping Cro]wland Spalding Pinchbek Weston and Moulton and all other... . Spalding Fenne. ... Said juri saith that befor this rever of Weylond be dikid, a da[m]| . .. substanncially mayd at John Cloynes house for the staynge of the walter] ... dyked from thenc to Pecke Bridge & so forther as is . .. as much as the substaunciall making and takinge upp of .. . the quenes maiesties charg to do, yet the inhabitaunce of Deping .. . [Pinchb]eck Weston and Moulton and all other commeners in Dep- [ing]... contented for this time onely to be at the charg of .. . Wey- lond and of the taking yt up agayn And allso the... Deping and Spalding Fenn to be at the charge of . . . upp of all thos dammes in the fenne dreans that fallinto W .. . after the dyking of Weylond the same dammes to be by them clenn . ... that ther may be a slaker mayd at the hed of the great d . . . Cloynys House or else in some other convenient place apon vew mayd that the watter of .. . in Depyng & Spalding Fenne duringe the tim that the dame... [Lhe endorsement 1s illegible. ] ACCOUNTS FOR DIKING THE RIVER WELLAND, 1567 [490.1.1—12] Part printed 165a [This document, actually a wages book, is in form nothing but a list of names and payments comprising nearly 800 individual entries. To print these 7m extenso could scarcely be justified in this edition ; and it was doubtless this that decided Miss Kirkus to omit the document from her scheme of publication. Yet it ought not to be passed over without a mention, for it is one of the very few Holland
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