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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

Draine twenty foot broad at the outfall and ten foot broad at the head and six foot deepe being two miles in length and a great part of that very deepe worke it may cost ten shillings the rod which is three hundred and twenty pounds To make the new Draine which is between Little-port Chaire and Turbesey ten foot broader on either side and foure foot deeper than now it is leaving twenty foot foreland between the River and the Banks and to cast the manure which commeth out of the River upon the Banks on either side being three miles and a halfe in length at forty five shillings the rod will cost two thousand five hundred and twenty pounds To make a Sasse twenty foure foot broad at Little-port Chaire at the lower end of the last work for the preservation of the Navigation from Lyn to Cambridge may cost two thousand and two hundred pounds To make two Indikes of fifteen foot broad and six foot deepe the manure to be cast upon the maine Banks may cost six shillings the rod is six hundred seventy two pounds To make two Brick Sluces of ten foot broad at the ends of the two last Indikes may cost six hundred pounds To make a Bank on either side of Milnall River from Prickwillow to Milnall six foot high leaving twenty foot foreland betweene the River and the Banks being eleven miles in length at ten shillings the rod will cost three thousand five hundred and twenty pounds To make a Brick Sasse twenty foot broad with foure paire of doores so that Boats may passe at all times and to place it at the Lower end of Milnall River may cost eighteen hundred pounds To make a Brick Sasse for the North West Indike of Milnall River and the South Indike of Grant sixteen foot broad with two paire of doores to keepe out Owse and two other paire of doores to keepe up the water in the Sommer may cost twelve hundred pounds To make a Dam crosse the River of Owse at Turbesey to be piled and wrought to the same heigth that the Banks are else where may cost three hundred pounds To make a Bank on either side of Brandon River from Priests Houses to Brandon six foot high leaving twenty foot foreland betweene the Bank and the River being twenty miles in length at ten shillings the rod may cost six thousand foure hundred pounds To make a Brick Sasse at the outfall of Brandon River twenty foure foot broad with foure paire of doores so that the Boats may passe at all times may cost two thousand two hundred pounds To make a Brick Sasse for the West Indike of Brandon River and the South Indike of Owse from Milnall Sasse to Brandon Sasse sixteen foot broad having two paire of doores to keepe out Owse and two other paire to keep up the water in the Sommer time may cost fifteen hundred pounds To make a Brick Sasse at Southery Ferry for the Indike which will be on the East side of Brandon River and also for the Indike which will be on the East side of Owse from Brandon Sasse to Southery Ferry sixteene foot broad with two paire of doores to keep out Owse and two other paire of doores to keepe up the water in the Sommer time it may cost fifteen hundred pounds To remove the Banks of Feltwell Cut so that there may be twenty foot foreland on either side and to make the Draine two foot deeper than now it is being five miles in length at eight shillings the rod it will cost six hundred and forty pound To make an Indike of ten foot broad and five foot deep on either side of Feltwell Cut and to cast all the manure to the two Banks at three shillings the rod it will cost foure hundred and fourscore pounds To make two Brick Sluces at the outfall of the two Indikes six foot broad with one paire of doores to keepe out Owse and one other paire to keepe up the water in the Sommer time may cost foure hundred pounds To make a Bank of six foot high on either side of Stoke River from the River Owse to Stoke Bridge leaving twenty foot foreland between the River and the Banks being ten miles in length at ten shillings the rod it will cost three thousand two hundred pounds To make a Brick Sasse at the outfall of Stoke River twenty foot broad having foure paire of doores so that the Boats may passe at all times may cost eighteen hundred pounds To make a Brick Sluce and a Brick Sasse upon the River Owse neere Mandlin Falls that may have one hundred sixty foot water-way with double doors in every Arch to keepe out the Sea floods and Land doores to keepe up the fresh waters and those Land doores must have Spring doores in them to discharge the fresh waters on a sudden for the better maintaining and preserving of the Channell from the Sluce to the Sea The Sluce the Sluce-pit and the casting of water together with the cutting of a new River to and from the Sluce and making of a Dam in the old River may cost one and twenty thousand pounds To make so many Land Eayes as may convey the downfall of all the high Land waters into their proper streames so that they may not drown those Fens which are next them may be a work of one hundred and five miles in length considering one place with another they may cost ten shillings the rod which is sixteen thousand and eight hundred pounds The purchasing of Several through which many of the Draines are to be made may cost six thousand pounds To make Horse-mills Tun-mills Wheele-barrowes Store-houses and work houses and to buy Spars Deals Nailes Ginropes and such like materials which will be used in this work may cost foure thousand five hundred pounds The making of division Draines may cost five thousand pounds The Sallary of Officers imployed in this work may in foure years amount to foure thousand pounds It is knowne to Builders that after great care and examination of their intended charge there will be some Nailes omitted For which reason if you please you may cast the odde money into this estimate and reckon the totall charge to be one hundred and fourescore thousand pounds and that with this caution that the Springs of the yeares must not be lost for want of money The works above mentioned cannot be performed in lesse time than foure compleat Sommers The placing of a great Sluce upon the River Owse neare Lyn together with those other works which are here designed under the title of that River will draine all the Fenns that are on the Southside of Bedford River so that the greatest part of them will be culturable grounds and peradventure it will spare the charge of those Banks which are intended to bee made on either side of the River Owse from Salters Load to Little-port But the making of that Sluce is a work of so great a consequence that of my selfe I dare not absolutely resolve it It is true that the Fens are drowned by the high Land waters onely yet an I have said before the Sea floods are as Potent an Enemy to the Fenns as the Land floods are In confideration wherof my conclusion is That the making of a Sluce upon the River Owse neare Lyn to keepe out the Sea floods will undoubtedly prevent and remove one halfe of that cause which occasioneth the drowning of that great and rich Levell The objections that will be made against the making of that Sluce will be three And under favour of this Honourable Court I conceive they will bee weak in comparison of the great benefit which that work will produce by keeping out the Sea floods The first objection is the greatnesse of the charge The second is the hazzard in placing of it The third is the oppositions that Cambridge and Lyn will make against it in regard of their Navigation which consisteth principally of three parts The first and greatest is whether the repulsing of the Sea floods will impaire Lyn Haven or not The second is that for want of a flood Stream the Keeles must of necessity make lesse speed in their passage from Lyn to Cambridge The third and last objection will be Some losse of time by staying the Keeles at the Sluce in regard they must take their turnes in passing through it which I humbly leave to the grave consideration of this Honourable Court Being serious for the Fens these objections were once strooke out for it is not a question whether this be the best way to Drain the Fens or not These doubts therefore were only inserted in regard of Lyn Haven and the Navigation from Lyn to Cambridge as is said before But being awfull of what I present to this Great Councell I durst not omit them And now having with all care and diligence finished my Designe I earnestly implore your Noble acceptance humbly entreating you to heare all chuse the best and God grant the Kingdom may flourish in your Honourable Resolves FINIS

deep being nine miles in length at eight shillings the rod it will cost one thousand one hundred fifty two pounds To open the Shire Draine and to continue it from Hills Sluce to the South East corner of Sutton Marsh being a mile and a quarter at twenty shillings the rod is six hundred pounds To make a Brick Sluce twenty foot broad with two paire of doores to keepe out the Sea and one paire to keepe up the fresh Waters to be placed at the South East corner of Satton Marsh in regard it must stand very deep on a Sandy foundation It may cost two thousand foure hundred pounds To bring the many crooked Channels which are in the Washes into one straight Channell is a work that must be first wrought with the Spade and after that is accomplished there must bee many Jetties made with Piles Stones and Brushwood to keepe the Channell straight from the lower end of Wisbeach River to the Sea Deepe being a work of great consequence it may cost foure thousand pound Bedford River TO make Bedford River five foot broader on either side and three foot deeper than now it is and to cast all the manure which now lyeth upon the forelands with that which will be taken out of the bottome of the River upon the Banks being twenty one miles and a halfe in length at thirty five shillings the rod it will cost twelve thousand and forty pounds To pile the Dike ends and Swamps which else will not be able to support the Banks when more waight shall be laid upon them and to convey by Boat so much earth thither as will make the defective places as high as the Banks are generally else where may cost foure hundred pound To make the two Indikes ten foot broader on the Fen side and foure foot deeper then now they are and to cast all the manure that commeth out of them upon the Bank at ten shillings the rod for each Indike it will cost six thousand eight hundred and fourescore pound To make two Brick Sluces at the outfall of the two Indikes that each of them may have sixteene foot waterway with a paire of doores to keepe out the Sea floods and a paire of doores to keep up the fresh waters may cost two thousand foure hundred pounds 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 To make the West water twenty five foot broad and six foot deep from Erith to Plantwater being nineteene miles in length at twelve shillings the rod it will cost three thousand six hundred forty eight pounds To make a Sasse in the Northbank of Bedford River twenty foot broad to be placed in the roome of a little Sluce at the entrance of the West water being within halfe a mile of Erith It must have two paire of doores against the water in Bedford River that Boats may passe at all times and may cost one thousand foure hundred pounds To make Elme Leame forty foot broad and six foot deeper than now it is from Wisbeach River to March Streame will mend the outfall of VVisbeach River and maintain the Navigation from VVisbeach to Norfolk Suffolk Cambridge and Huntington Shires The work is six miles in length and will bee very chargeable for the space of a mile and may therefore cost five and forty shillings the rod one with another which is foure thousand three hundred and twenty pounds To make a Brick Sasse twenty foot broad where Elme Leame falls into Wisbeach River with two paire of doores to keep out Neene and one paire of doors to keep up the back water may cost one thousand eight hundred pounds To make two Cart bridges and one foot bridge over Elme Leame being made of Oken timber with Brick Pieres may cost three hundred and forty pounds To make Witelsey Meare Draine two foot deeper than now it is from Guyherne to the Meare being thirteen miles in length at foure shillings the rod it will cost eight hundred thirty two pounds To make two Cart Bridges over Witelsey Meare Draine right against Witelsey high Lands may cost eighty pounds These generall works together with a Land Eaye from Peterborough to the Crosse neere Crowland and the division-dikes will be sufficient for that part of the Levell which lieth on the north side of Bedford River being much about one halfe of the Levell Provided alwayes that the River Welland be kept to its proper outfall which may be effected by mending the new Bank that the late Earle of Bedford caused to be made from Waldram Hall to Crowland and by maintaining the Queenes Bank at a sufficient heigth from Crowland to Spalding which at this time is much setled and in great decay The River of Owse TO make a Bank of six foot high on either side of the River Owse from Erith to Southery Ferry on the South and East side and to Salters Load on the North and West side leaving twenty foot foreland between the Banks and the River These Banks are to be made of the manure which riseth out of the Indikes being twenty foot broad and six foot deep either of these Banks will be twenty eight miles in length and being for the most part Silt will cost ten shillings the rod which is eight thousand nine hundred and sixty pounds To make a Bank on either side of the River Grant from Harimer to Clay Hive six foot high leaving twenty foot foreland between the Banks and the River These Banks are to be made of the manure which riseth out of the twenty foot Indike six foot deep being ten miles in length at ten shillings the rod will cost three thousand two hundred pounds To take up the Hards or Shoulds which are in the River Grant betwixt Harimer and Cambridge being Gravell Sand or Chalk and nine in number whereof some are long and some are short is a work that must be performed by a water Engine which may cost two thousand foure hundred pounds To maintaine the Navigation from Lyn to Cambridge there must be a Brick Sasse made at Harimer two and twenty foot broad with four paire of doores so that the Boats may passe at all times which may cost sixteen hundred pounds To make another Brick Sasse at Harimer on the West side of the great Sasse sixteen foot broad for the waters of the two Indikes of Owse and Grant with two paire of doores to keepe out Owse and one paire of doores to keepe up the water in Sommer may cost twelve hundred pounds To make a Brick Sasse neere Breame sixteen foot broad with two paire of doores to keepe out Owse and one other paire to keepe up the water in the Sommer to be placed at the outfall of the Indike which will be betweene Erith and Breame on the North side of Owse may cost twelve hundred pound To make Grunty Fen