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A30500	Burrell, Andrewes.	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.	1642.0		.xml	application/xml	7085	169	59	Having acquainted you with the scituation and condition of the great Levell , and briefely declared how they may be preserved from Inundation , I am humbly bold to present my designe unto this Honourable Court , therein expressing every particular work , together with the totall charge and time when the works may be perfected . TO enlarge Wisbeach River from the Sluce to Guihern , so that it may be twenty foot broader than now it is from the top to the bottome , and to take up the two ten foot Banks which do lie hid under water , on each side of the River one ; and to leave a foreland of thirty foot broad on the south side from the brink upwards , being in all six measured miles , whereof there is one mile halfe wrought by Sir Cornelius , at the rate of forty shillings the Rod , is , To make two Bridges of foure foot broad over Bedford River , one at Welney , and the other at Maney , and to make a Cart Bridge at Mepell , may cost two hundred and forty pounds .	cache/A30500.xml	txt/A30500.txt
