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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    defectyve in dyverse places & ought to be made & repayred by the lordes & landholders of Surflett aforeseyd accordyng to a joyce boke therof. | (A were in the same ryver) Item the seyd jure say that ther ys one were in the seyd great ryver nygh to the Stone Brygg in Gosber- kyrk so narrowe & so strate that the water in the seyd ryver cannot have hys ryght course & reddy pasage to the see. (The bank in the same . . . in Gosberkyrk shyft) Item the seyd jure say that the banke of the seyd ryver within the paryshe & shyft of Gosberkyrk ys in great decay for lak of hyght from Stone Brygg to Cokerell Hough and ought to be repared exa[Ited] and amended by the landholders of Gosberkyrk accordyng to the joyce boke ther. (... kepyng owte ...ryng owte) Item the seyd jure say that the wynter last past ther was a gytt or gole brake over the bank of the seyd ryver of the north syde nyghe to Party Brygg by reason wherof the waters of Quadryng dyd overflowe the seyd bank & run into the seyd great Plus in folio sequenti [473.X1.19] 199 (8) ryver of Gosberkyrk & Surflett aforeseyd called Rusgate Ee by reason of the rage & great? ... that the seyd waters of Quadryng hadd into the seyd ryver, overcharged the seyd ryve[r] & so greatly that at the meatyng of the seyd ryver with the great ryver called the Be[ache] caused the water therin, whyche shuld run with the seyd ryver of Rusgate Ee to the see gote to ret[urn to] the hede & course of the seyd ryver called the Beache bak ageyn & returned the water into the petty d{rain] called the Tundam & the Ley Fen Lode by reason wherof the landes medowes & pastures to .. . Rusgate & Chele were greatly overflowen surrounded & drowned to the great enesty . . . hyndrans of the lordes landholders & occupyers of the groundes towardes Rusgate & Chele, w[hich] forseyd bank of Gos- bertown Ee yf yt shuld not be suffycyently & substancyally amen(ded| repayred exalted & amended to kepe the seyd waters owte of the seyd ryver shuld not only be an utter surroundyng & drownyng of suche townes within the partyes of Kesten . . . of ryght drean by the seyd ryver of Rusgate Ee but also shall surround & drown the . . . quarters & angles of Gosberkyrk & Surflett towardes Rusgate & Chele aforeseyd. (Defaltes in the drean under the sedyk in Surflett shyft) Item the seyd jur’ say that the seyd ryver within the shyft of Surflett whic(h is] called the drean under the sedyk ys defectyve for lak of dykyng and scowryng ... places and ought to be dyked scowred & clensed as folowyth at the places herea[fter] .. . lymyted that ys to say at Peter Sedyk End by the land holders of Hardgrave, at . . . by Sir John amis} knyght & the landholders of Mr Pagenham, and nygh unto the .. . fale at the gote by Mr Robert Markham esquyer. 1 The bottom left-hand margin of this folio is defective.
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