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A25545	Maynard, John, Sir. Humble petition of the owners and commoners of the towne of Isleham in the county of Cambridge.	An Answer (to a printed paper dispersed by Sir John Maynard entituled, The humble petition of the owners and commoners of the towne of Isleham in the county of Cambridge, and to the exceptions thereto annexed against the Act for the dreyning of the great level of the fennes) whereby the honour and justice of the late Parliament is vindicated, the scandals and untruths in the said printed paper discovered, some vaine objections answered, and the truth of the proceedings in the work of dreyning (so much conducing to the honour and profit of the Common-wealth) held forth to all sober and uninteressed [sic] persons.	1653.0		.xml	application/xml	7295	173	49	And to the pretence of the unreasonablenesse of the said Act being a general Exception ; abundantly answered by denying it , and by referring to the Act it selfe , and to the clear Answers formerly given to every particular Exception , wherein any pretence of unreasonablenesse is surmized , and whether the work was unnecessary or not , ( besides the Authority and Judgement of the late Parliament , which doth and ought to answer and silence that pretence , ) let all reasonable and uninteressed persons judge , whether it were not a work necessary for the Parliament to redeem and recover above 300000 Acres of surrounded grounds within this Island , and make them good Arrable land , Meddow and Pasture , by improvement whereof this Common-wealth may not only be supplied with cordage , linnen and other necessaries , but many hundred thousand pounds raised yearly within this Common-wealth , by Corne , Oyle , Hemp , Flax , and other Commodities , thousands of poor set on work , and the rage and violence of the waters , which threatned ruine and destruction to many adjacent parts , be stopped and prevented . And the said Act unduly obtained , By reason so many Parliament men became interessed therein , at the passing of the said Act ; It is answered , that the first part of the Charge is grounded upon a mistake , the said Declaration being against Improvements , taken out of Commons , by the late King , Queen , and other Lords of Mannors to the prejudice of the Commoners without Law , whereas the work of dreyning this Level , was then under the care of a Committee of Parliament , to provide for dreyning thereof , and declared to be a great work And no colour of a Monopoly if the Act be perused ; and the very original undertaking proceeds from the sollicitation of the Countrey .	cache/A25545.xml	txt/A25545.txt
