        item: #1 of 7
          id: A13708
      author: Briggs, Henry, 1561-1630.
       title: The propositions of Sir Anthony Thomas, knight, and Iohn Worsop, Esquire for making of the bargaine with the country, and Henry Briggs, professor of the mathematicks in the vniuersitie of Oxford, Heldebrand Pruson, citizen and salter of London, and Cornelius Drible, engeneere, with the rest of the undertakers for the drayning of the Levell within the sixe counties of Norfolke, Suffolke, Cambridge, Isle of Elie, Huntington, North-hampton and Lincolne-shire, on the southside of Gleane.
        date: None
       words: 2105
      flesch: 59
     summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).
    keywords: land; shilling; taxe; tcp; text
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        item: #2 of 7
          id: A25545
      author: Maynard, John, Sir. Humble petition of the owners and commoners of the towne of Isleham in the county of Cambridge.
       title: 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.
        date: 1653.0
       words: 7295
      flesch: 49
     summary: 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 .
    keywords: acres; act; charge; commissioners; dreyning; exception; level; parliament; work
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        item: #3 of 7
          id: A30500
      author: Burrell, Andrewes.
       title: 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.
        date: 1642.0
       words: 7085
      flesch: 59
     summary: 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 .
    keywords: doores; foot; foure; land; paire; pounds; river; rod; sea; shillings
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        item: #4 of 7
          id: A30503
      author: Burrell, Andrewes.
       title: An explanation of the drayning workes which have beene lately made for the Kings Maiestie in Cambridge shire by the direction of Sir Cornelius Virmuden wherein is discovered how the said Sir Cornelius hath abused the Kings Maiestie and many of his loving subjects / written by Andrewes Burrell.
        date: 1641.0
       words: 2962
      flesch: 63
     summary: VVherein is discovered how the said Sir Cornelius hath abused the KINGS MAIESTIE , and many of his loving Subjects . FIrst , He hath disgraced the KINGS Workes , by making weake Bankes , when hee might have made them strong .
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        item: #5 of 7
          id: A31214
      author: Castelli, Benedetto, 1577 or 8-1643.
       title: Of the mensuration of running waters an excellent piece written in Italian by Don Benedetto Castelli ... ; Englished from the third and best edition ; with the addition of a second book not before extant / by Thomas Salusbury.
        date: 1661.0
       words: 52588
      flesch: 49
     summary: And my doubt arose from my frequent observation of many Trenches and Channels , which carry water to turn Mills , in which Trenches , and Channels , the water being measured , was found pretty deep ; but if afterwards the same water was measured in the fall it made to turn the Wheel of the Mill , it was much lesse , not amounting often to the tenth part , nor sometimes to the twentieth , insomuch , that the same running water came to be one while more , another while less in measure , in divers parts of its Channel ; and for that reason this vulgar manner of measuring running Waters , as indeterminate and uncertain , was by me justly suspected , the measure being to be determinate , and the same . And to explain all more clearly with an example ; we suppose a Vessel filled with Water , as for instance a Butt , which is kept full , though still water runneth out , and the Water run out by two Taps equal of bignesse , one put in the bottom of the Vessel , and the other in the upper part ; it is manifest that in the time wherein from the upper part shall issue a determinate measure of water from the inferiour part there shall issue four , five , and many more of the same measures , according to the difference of the height of the Taps , and the distance of the upper Tap from the Superficies and level of the water of the Vessel : and all this will alwayes follow , though , as hath been said , the Taps be equal , and the water in discharging keep the said Taps alwayes full .
    keywords: breadth; case; chanel; consideration; fall; fiume; hath; height; lake; let; line; manifest; measure; morto; mouth; parts; passeth; place; proportion; quantity; reason; reno; river; runneth; running; said; sand; sea; second; section; self; serchio; things; time; velocity; water; way
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        item: #6 of 7
          id: A78254
      author: Wandesford, Mary, Lady.
       title: The case of the Lady Wandesford
        date: 1660.0
       words: 644
      flesch: 73
     summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A78254 of text R223852 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing C1102A). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 135633)
    keywords: lady; text; wandesford
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        item: #7 of 7
          id: A88998
      author: Maynard, John, Sir, 1602-1690.
       title: The picklock of the old Fenne project: or, Heads of Sir John Maynard his severall speeches, taken in short-hand, at the committee for Lincolneshire Fens, in the exchequer chamber. Consisting of matter of fact. Matter of law. Presidents quæres and answers.
        date: 1650.0
       words: 5749
      flesch: 62
     summary: So this generation of Undertakers would have incorporated , and got a standing Commission in all Counties , and so made England the Levell , and England to be surrounded , and in short time would have taken all we had ; This was as bad as their Levying War against the Parliament : And we conceive Sir William Killagrew did actually Levy War against the Nation , and had his project succeeded we had been no more a People : Killagrew , Sir William Killagrew , are recommended by way of Mandamus to be Undertakers , As we expect , and we do command all manner of persons to forbeare to make any particular bargains or works , &c.
    keywords: commissioners; good; judges; king; land; law; matter; parliament; project; sir; undertakers
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