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-
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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![yerly & effec eT upon pane of x li. (The lawe for Catebridge) Item the sade jure saethe that wheras ther was a lawe made for . . . [Cate]bridge at bothe endes of suche heyght & bredthe.. . floude myght passe throughe the arches of the same bridge withe . . . made in suche order as the same may... at every fresh water floude dothe so rage that the bankes of bothe sid[es] .. . and Burne Eye ar not able to kepe the violens of the same . and brekethe out to the grete losse & hyndrauncje] as well of .. . of Kesten as Holland: the sade jurie therefore thynkes it very mete & ... that the bankes at the sade bridge end be sufficiently made of suche heigh[t] . . . as the waters may passe orderly by the arches of the sade bridge an[d] . . . otherwyes. xxxlj folia Spaldyng de 29... [Endorsed:| Anno decimo Elizabethe 1568 North Slaker for Gleyne. Ro. Pulvertoft gent. forman. [473.X1.26] 1(Gednye) The verdyt of Roger Morrowe of Sutton yoman & his fellowes of the degrewes queste Item the sayde jurye sayethe upon there othes that all the hedynges from Weste Plowe Landes hedynges to Gednye sedycke beynge the west hedynges & the out rynge of our towne is in decaye & for lacke of height & brethe & ought to be mayde kept & exalted from tym to tym as well by our sovereinge laydye quen as lorde & ther tenantes. Item the sayed jurye saythe that the quens maiestye hathe xv# rodes in defaute of the Pollete fee in Gednye hedynges and ought to be repared and exalted from tym to tym by her or by her tenantes. Item the sayde jurye sayethe that Peter Trotte hathe x rodes in the sam defaute of my lordes Wentworthes hedynges & ought to be repared & exalted from tym to tym by the forsayde Peter Trotte. Item the sayde jurye saythe that my lorde Wentworthe hathe x rodes in the same defaute and ought to be repare by hym selfe or by his tenantes. Item they saye that our sovereinge laydye the quens maiestye hathe x rodes in the same defaut of the monestrye of Crowlande & ought to be repared from tym to tym by her or by her tenantes. Item Wylliam Cokere of Flete Feenn hathe xx rodes in the sam defaute & ought to be repared from from [sic] tym to tym by the forsayd Wylliam Cookere. Item theye saye that Thomas Fysshere of Gednye Feenn hathe x rodes in the same defaute & ought to be repared from tym to tym by the forsayd Thomas Fysshere. Item theye saye that the lorde Wentworthe hathe xx rodes in the sam defaute & ought to be papatod from tym to tym by hym selfe or by his tenantes. 1 A small part of the lower right-hand margin of this folio is missing.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32176983_0002_0066.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
