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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

AN EXPLANATION OF THE Drayning VVorkes VVhich have beene lately made for the KINGS MAIESTIE IN Cambridge Shire By the direction of Sir Cornelius Virmuden Written by Andrewes Burrell Gent. VVherein is discovered how the said Sir Cornelius hath abused the KINGS MAIESTIE and many of his loving Subjects Printed in the yeare 1641. An Explanation of the Drayning Workes which have been lately made for the Kings Majesty in Cambridge Shire by the direction of Sir Cornelius Virmuden Written by Andrewes Burrell Gent. Wherein is discovered how the said Sir Cornelius hath abused the Kings Majesty and many of his loving Subjects FIrst He hath disgraced the KINGS Workes by making weake Bankes when hee might have made them strong SEcondly by making hollow and counterfeit Bankes of light Moore Hassocks and Sedge skimming and destroying three times so much ground as would have performed the service if he had taken the best of the soyle THirdly he hath disgraced the Kings works in causing divers Sluces and Sasses to bee made of rotten timber which ought to have beene made of the best Brickes or Stone in regard they are to be placed for perpetuity FOurthly he hath abused the King in misspending his treasure FIfthly hee hath abused the late Earle of Bedford and divers Noblemen and Gentlemen that adventured with him in his undertaking by undervaluing the Works which they made and by hindering their proceedings to their extream losse and disadvantage and to the great hindrance of all those Gentlemen that are interessed in that great Levell consisting of three hundred and seven thousand Acres SIxthly he hath abused divers of his Majesties Subjects in taking their Lands from them illegally without any composition or satisfaction SEventhly he hath exposed to wilfull and unnecessary hazard the Lands Cattell Corne and other goods of many of his Majesties Subjects so that they are in great danger of being drowned this present winter as doth appeare by this insuing discourse THe first worke hee caused to be made was a Sea Bank in Wysbeach Saltmarsh which is so slender that three Roods of the new Sea Banke hath not so much earth in it as one Rood of the old Sea Banke Hee ought also to have armed the new Sea Banke with Sods on that side which is next the Sea for being thus sleightly made and not armed the Sea hath lately broke the new Sea Banke in divers places and weakned it for a great space but in regard it was an easie flood the damage is little in comparison of what it might have beene that Land being alwayes well stored with Sheepe that may soone be lost The second worke which hee caused to bee made was a Sluce at the outfall of a draine called the Sheir Draine which worke he commanded to bee made in unseasonable weather not knowing I am sure not attending or not heeding the danger when it was plainly to bee perceived at the laying downe of the foundation for at that time the losse might have beene prevented it is said that that Sluce with the spadework and mischances which happened whilest the Pit was making by the Seas breaking in twice upon them did cost the King at the least three thousand pounds which money is every penny lost The third worke was the inlarging of a part of Wysbeach River for the space of a mile wherein he was as much wanting of the depth of the Earle of Bedfords worke as he exceeded in unnecessary bredth leaving the River as narrow as the Earle left it two miles above the new Worke and two miles below it a worke that is broad and shallow may be made without skill or care And if the truth may bee spoken without offence such is that worke The depth of that new Worke cannot be perceived above one month in the yeare and that is when the winter floods have recovered the outfall to the Sea for so soone as the waters doe rise in the River it seemeth to them that know not the difference to be a very great inlargement being very faire to the eie but wanting depth can performe no better then eye-service Whereas the River of Wysbeach runneth from the Towne Bridge to Guyherne fix measured miles of the way towards Peterborough in a neare and safe tract in regard the soyle where the River now runneth is clay earth or Silt that substance would have inlarged the Bankes on either side of the River to so great a proportion that the Countries lying on either side would have been much better secured then ever they were in the times which are past yet Sir Cornelius Virmuden either through wilfulnesse or weaknesse left the safe and nearest way where hee might have enlarged the River to what proportion hee pleased and secured the Lands on either side from danger as is said before and made a new Banke of Hassockes light spungy Moore and Sedge in a Fenne called Walterley where there is neither Clay Earth nor Silt unlesse it be at the first entrance for the space of a furlong The new Banke so made is more then two miles and three quarters in length in which Worke he misspent at the least two thousand and three hundred pounds or thereabouts Besides which great losse to the King and damage to the owners of the Lands his intent is to lay foure hundred seventy foure Acres of the said Land waste to the said River upon which Land there is three Tenements newly erected and two other that are ancient and this he will doe as he falsly pretendeth to make that Land a receptacle for the common Waters whereas in truth he doth it of purpose to doe me a mischiefe in regard I did contravert some of his opinions before the late Lord Treasurer when my selfe was a Commissioner for his Majesty in October 1638. when God knoweth that which I spake was in the sincerity of my heart for the advancement of his Majesties service without any by respects One of the Workes which I then propounded was the making of a Bricke Sluce below Spaulding to keep out the Sea Floods and Sir Cornelius disliked it affirming that there was no way to draine the Fennes but by making of large Bankes yet now that he doth what he pleaseth he himselfe hath very lately not onely approved in speech for therein he is very giddy but he hath covenanted with a workman to make a Timber sluce with a Sasse beside it to bee placed in the same place for which the King is to pay three thousand and five hundred pounds wherein appeareth his deceitfull dealing with the Lord Treasurer Lord Cottington and my Lord Banckes at that time the Kings Atturney And if the old firme Banke were cut so that the Common waters might come to the new hollow Bank which he hath caused to be made it is undoubtedly certaine that they will drown all the rest of the said Lands being at the least foure thousand Acres and if that were effected it would bee no way beneficiall to the generall Drayning