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.

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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.

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London :: Printed for Richard Baddeley ...,

1653.

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Subject terms

Reclamation of land -- Law and legislation -- England.

Drainage -- England -- History -- Sources.

Fens, The (England)

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• AN ANSWER (To a printed Paper dispersed by Sir John Maynard entituled The humble Pe∣tition 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 Iustice 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 that work of Dreyning (so much conducing to the honour and profit of this Common-wealth) held forth to all sober and uninteressed persons.
  • Here followeth an Answer to the Exceptions against the Act, printed with the said Paper.
  • And whereas Sir Iohn Maynard hath been pleased to commend Reede and Sedge to the Common-wealth, as rich Commodities to be taken care of, and hath stiled those, produced by the labour and cost of the Undertakers, upon the improvement to be trash and trumpery; yet such as they are, and the advantages this yeare a∣rising by them, out of a small part of the Fennes coming late∣ly to hand, is hereby offered to the consideration of prudent per∣sons. There was 28000 Acres of the aforesaid Fenn-ground, sowen with Cole-seed, Wheat, Barley; Oates and Flax.
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