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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30500	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.	Burrell, Andrewes.	1642 (1642)	Wing B5969; ESTC R2671	13,041	29

A Briefe RELATION Discovering Plainely the true Causes why the great Levell of FENNS In the severall Counties of Norfolk Suffolk Cambridge Huntington North-hampton 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. LONDON Printed for Francis Constable 1642. TO THE HONOVRABLE House of COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT GReat and Honourable workes ought to bee directed by great and Honourable Councells And therefore to the intent this noble Enterprise may not be undervalued as it is by some I humbly informe this Honourable Court that besides sundry attempts made by divers Noble men who desired to improve the great levell of Fenns the undertaking was so well esteemed by King JAMES that Hee really intended to take it into His owne care the diversion of His Royall intention is unknowne After him the Late Earle of Bedford and his friends adventured great summes of money to recover them But before their workes were finished they were circumvented and outed of all their intendments The last undertaking was attempted by the Kings Majesty that now is but the greatest part of His money being mis-spent and all his intended workes misled by Sir Cornelius Vermuden's mysticall designe His now Majesty hath declined His undertaking also so that it is like to returne to the now Earle of BEDFORD and his friends This Noble Enterprise being thus misguided lyeth now before your grave Wisdomes expecting direction from this Honourable Assembly and wanting a better friend to petition for them there being an Order made by the Honourable Committee for the Fens the twenty five of February last that all men whom it may concern may offer any other designe In regard a perfect designe concerneth the preservation of many mens estates which also may be ruined impaired or cast into eminent danger I am humbly bold to informe you that unlesse this Honourable Court command the now intended works to be published to the severall Counties as was once intended by the Honourable Committee so that the Countries approbation or exceptions may bee valued or at the least heard And that before the works beginne equall compositions may bee made with all those whose Lands shall bee impaired endangered or taken from them many men may bee ruined in their just Estates There are two Reasons that make me earnest in this cause The one is the former ill designing and ill mannaging of the workes wherein Wilfulnesse and Ignorance in the Kings Name over-ruled the Countries The other concernes my selfe first in taking a great part of my owne Land and some of that which I Farme from me without satisfaction composition or leave to cut it and which is much worse by bringing all the rest of my Inheritance and leas't Lands which together are not lesse than three thousand Acres into eminent danger of drowning by cutting my old firme Banck and exposing my Lands to bee defended from the common waters by a hollow counterfeit Banck made of so light a composition that it will both burne and swim And here I beseech you give mee leave to tell you that for want of Iustice in ENGLAND and Peace in IRELAND my aged Mother my selfe and foure Brethren have within a few yeares lost nine hundred and sixty pounds per annum which when time will give me leave I hope to prove before this Honourable Parliament which makes me the more earnestly implore your aide in this my great necessity To conclude if this Noble Enterprise by your Honourable paines be well designed and so prosecuted The Improvement will not only returne a sufficient satisfaction to the adventurers but the Common-wealth will sweetly rellish the great Improvement which will follow But because it is not safe to be over large in great promises I will say no more but GOD grant the Fenns may in due time be made VVinter grounds not impairing any private mans estate So Prayeth Your Honours humble Supplyant Andrewes Burrell A BRIEFE RELATION Of the true Causes why the FENNS In Norfolk Suffolk Cambridge Huntington Northampton and Lincolne Shires have beene drowned AND As briefly how they may be drained and preserved from Inundation BEfore I declare the Reasons why those Low Lands are subject to drowning I conceive it is fit to discover to them that doe not know those Countries in what condition the Fens were before they were drowned How they are seated and how they are drowned Mr. Cambden in his Brittania folio 449. referres his Readers to William of Malmesbury who reporteth the Lordship of Thorney in his time to be so fruitfull and fragrant that for delight it resembled Heaven it selfe That Lordship is indeed a large and rich piece of Land consisting of eighteen thousand Acres or thereabouts and pertaineth to the Earles of Bedford But having lost the beauty lately mentioned nay to be plaine being quite lost and perpetually drowned save onely one Hillocke where the Abbey standeth was the cause that induced the late Earle to undertake the drayning of the great Levell In which service by reason of my imployment under his Lordship in the yeare 1635. In deepning Wisbeach River I discovered a stony bottome upon which there was found lying at severall distances seven boates which for many yeares had laine buried eight foot under the bottome of the River as it was before the late Earles undertaking And it is very likely that when Thorney flourished Neene did run as deepe as that bottome After this discovery it was intended by the late Earle that the River Neene should have been enlarged and deepned from Wisbeach to Stanground by the tract of Mourton Leame as now it is from Wisbeach to Guyherne And I am very confident that if Neene were made a hundred foot broad and so deepe as it is in Wisbeach Towne from Wisbeach to Stanground Thorney Fens in a few yeares would be as fruitfull and rich as ever they were in Malmesburies time whose story is That they represented a very Paradise for that in pleasure and delight it resembled Heaven it selfe in the very Marishes bearing trees that for their straight tallnesse and the same without knots strive to touch the Stars A Plaine is there as even as the sea which with green grasse allureth the eye so smooth and levell that if any walk along the fields they shall finde nothing to stumble at there is not the least parcell of ground that lieth waste and void there Here shall you finde the Earth rising some where for Apple trees there shall you have a field set with Vines which either creep upon the ground or mount on high upon poles to support them A mutuall strife there is betweene Nature and Husbandry that what the one forgetteth the other might supply and produce What will be said of the faire and beautifull