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Reclamation of land - Early works to 1800

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    Sir Cornelius Vermuyden's agreement with King Charles for draining Hatfield Chace, &c.

    Vermuyden, Cornelius, Sir, 1590-1677. | Date: 1794
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    Considerations and reflections on the present state of the fens, near Ely: With a proposal for inclosing and dividing the common, called gruntifen.

    | Date: M.DCC.LXXVIII. [1778]
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    Spalding law of sewers, in hæc verba, for enlarging Shire-Drain, alias Clows-Cross-Drain: being the original contract made betwixt South-Holland and Wisbech-Hundred, ... and Sir Tho. Cecil, and many other owners of North-Level, then called Thorney-Fens, &c. By which law only North-Level drains by Shire-Drain, which now they would claim to be theirs, and exclude the original owners therefrom.

    | Date: 1754?]
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    A brief essay on the nature of bogs, and the method of reclaiming them. Humbly addressed to the Right Honourable and Honourable the Dublin Society, by their Grateful and Faithful Servant, Henry Brooke.

    Brooke, Henry, 1703?-1783. | Date: M,DCC,LXXII. [1772]
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