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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30503	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.	Burrell, Andrewes.	1641 (1641)	Wing B5972; ESTC R27138	4,949	15

as doth appear by a Certificate made by the principall Gentlemen and Land holders in that Country These Lands were banked and drained by an Act of Parliament made the fourth of King Iames and have ever since that time beene maintained and upheld and were not questioned in the Earle of Bedfords undertaking Besides there is no mention of making this Receptacle for the Common waters in those Propositions which Sir Cornelius did deliver to the Kings Majesty in Ianuary 1638. Yet contrary to all justice hee hath taken these Lands from the owners without any composition or satisfaction and intends to drowne all the rest Fifthly he hath caused a Banke of H●ssockes and light spungy Moore which in three or four yeares will shrinke to lesse then halfe the proportion which it now hath and after that to be so much lesse as it will bee little better then nothing for it will bee hollow and spungy still Such a Banke he hath caused to bee made from Guy herne to the East end of Wittelsey He hath also continued the same Banke but in a better Soyle from the West end of Wittelsey to Stanground intending thereby to keepe the River Neene from drowning those Fennes which lye betwixt these new Bankes and the North Bank of Bedford River and certainly they will secure them this present Winter from Neene But if the North Banke of Bedford River bee setled so low that the River of Owse overtop it and make breaches in it as I beleeve it will those false fires will soone bee discerned I have often heard Sir Cornelius fleight all the workes which were made by the late Earle as if they were rather hurtfull then beneficiall to the Country But hee did the Earle great wrong for if those Workes faile all his Hassock Banks will not be worth three pence Nor could hee have made them if the Earle had not opened Wysbeach River to the Sea and kept the Sea from choaking it againe which was a worke farre exceeding all that Sir Cornelius hath done His plot is by subtilty to rob the late Earle and those Adventurers of the credit of their works and after that to make all such as know not the truth beleeve that himselfe with ten thousand pounds will presently make one hundred thousand Acres fit for the Plow which is a meere delusion And as it is wicked in it selfe so is it attended with a danger much worse then all that hath beene yet discovered And it is a question whether it be not past recovery This mischiefe hee hath cast upon many of his Majesties Subjects inhabiting the low Lands called Holland in Lincolne shire and the North side of Wysbeach both which Countries are full of people and well stored with Cattell they lye betweene the Fennes and the Sea and are much lower then the Common Fennes they are preserved from Inundation by Bankes consisting of a sandy substance and are so low that they cannot defend the said Countries from Inundation Now Sir Cornelius hath turned the Southerne waters upon them for there will come three times so much water upon them now as did before The new Bankes were made in regard Neene cannot passe in its owne Chanell to the Sea nor dilate it selfe over the face of those Fennes which lye on the South side of Wittelsey as formerly they did Sixtly he hath caused a Timber Sasse to bee placed neare Stanground which hath cost the King eight hundred pounds at the least The use of the Sasse I beleeve will be good in convenient time but I like not his direction who dares to spend the Kings money in Timber workes when indeed they ought to be made of the best Brickes or Stone I thinke rather Stone then Brickes in regard that Country affordeth great plenty of good Stone at very cheape rates This Sasse is not onely made of Timber but of Firre Timber and that so rotten that it was not fit to be used in the making of a good Stable and in stead of Oken Plankes three inches thicke it is planked with Deale boards but one inch thicke which will be rotten before the other works are finished Seventhly he hath caused divers petty Sluces to be made of the like Timber and Deal boards which ought to have beene made of Brickes or stone in regard they are intended for perpetuity Eightly he hath misspent the Kings Treasure in giving over large wages unto many workmen for since Michaelmasse last money being wanting to forward this goodly designe Sir Cornelius procured some assistance from those Gentlemen whose Lands lye on the South side of Wittelsey in regard these new Bankes will be some advantage unto them paying the workmen part of their wages in Bullockes Sheepe Beere Cloth and other commodities amongst them there were some payd part of their wages in Wheat at fifteene Shillings the Combe which did the next day sell the same Wheat for nine Shillings the Comb. And if their wages were not extraordinary large the condition of those workmen is such that they will not worke two weekes to an end unlesse they doe receive the due of what they earne much lesse continue working two months without pay and then accept of nine shillings for fifteene And here I beseech you give me leave to give my deceased Master and those Noblemen and Gentlemen that adventured with him their due praise from the first to the last of their undertaking their workmen never wanted their wages but were duly paid every weeke untill the untimely difference in the yeare 1637. The reason why I mention this is that you may the better discerne how grosly the Kings Majesty hath beene abused not onely in the losse of his treasure but in paying the workmen with commodities and in commodities much inferiour to them which I have named and indeed not fit to name which for their basenesse I omit And all this to support an unadvised action which I am confident will occasion a thousand times more losse then all the good which can be expected if duly considered Lastly if it be objected That I have informed against Sir Cornelius in discontent or because he by his subtilty did defeat me of my imployment in those Workes after I had undergone the greatest difficulties and meanest servitude from the first day to the last of the late Earles undertaking or that I have wronged him in this my Information and cannot justifie every particular which is here expressed instead of relieving me let mee undergoe the displeasure of all them whose helpe I doe implore But if that which I have discovered be true I doe most humbly pray that the remainder of my meane estate may by your Justice be kept from utter ruine and that a Commission of Inquiry may be directed to examine and certifie my present losse and future danger and that they may also consider whether the drowning of the foure hundred seventy foure Acres before mentioned will bee beneficiall to the generall drayning or not And that in the meane time it may be ordered that the old Banke may not bee cut FINIS