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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47375	Sr. VVilliam Killigrew his answer to the fenne mens objections against the Earle of Lindsey his drayning in Lincolnshire	Killigrew, William, Sir, 1606-1695.	1649 (1649)	Wing K453; ESTC R14022	14,319	20

world that our works were needlesse to which end they have to this day dam'd up the Earles great Rivers and by so doing have now drowned all the Fens to the great dammage and discontent of the Country as appears by the presentments of Sewers this last Summer in which those dams are presented as common nusances and are ordered to be taken up but yet doe still remaine and doe keep the Fens drowned by which it seemes our opposers did not formerly nor doe yet understand drayning and therefore not so fit to be Drayners as the Earle by whose works the Fens were kept dry untill they malitiously destroyd them on purpose to drown what he had drayned 8. They say The Earle did undertake the worke against the Countries consent We answer That the Contract was made by 32. Commissioners many of them Lords and owners of the said Fens and this at a publique Session of Sewers in Sleaford in the presence of many thousands of the people all hearing the Contract debated openly in the Church because the great Hall could not receive the Assembly and the people did expresse much joy to have the Earle undertake it and did unanimously work in his Drayns and hereby inriched themselves nor was here any appearing dissent in the Country untill our Adversaries perswaded them that they might have all the Earles Lands for asking 9. They say The Earle did take the best Land and left the worst for the Country We answer That by the Map it will appear that the Earle hath alotted to him that Land which was worst the lowest and most drownd the very Pan of all the Fens and lyeth most remote from all the Towns so that if those Lands that were worst be now become best it is a good evidence that the Earle hath done his work well for the truth is those worst Lands which were ever drowned before the drayning are by our works made good winter Corn Lands And yet to let the world see how unjust this complaint is the Earl did offer the Country to exchange all his Lands for so much of theirs and they refused it at a full hearing in the Lords house The truth is that the wit of man cannot set out the Earles proportion in any other place so profitable for the Country 10. They say That the Fens between Bourne and Kime-eae are the worse for drayning We answer That those Fens are improved by drayning from 2s 3s 4s an Acre to 8s 10s and 13s the Acre as appeares by testimony before this committee We say also that the Earle did at a hearing in the Lords house offer the Country to become Tenant to the Country for all the remaining Common at 10s the Acre which they refused and by all Records as well as by severall testimonies it appears thoso Fens were not worth a forth part so much before the draining therefore now improved to the great advantage of the Country 11. They say That Kesteven side is drowned by the bank of our great River which doth secure our own Lands and thrusts up the waters on the Land left unto the Country We answer That if Kesteven side or any other Fens in the Earles Level doe lie forty dayes under water the Country may re-enter on all his Lands for not performing his Contract with them And for the bank of the complained of it is true that when that River is full upon great sudden Floods that bank doth thrust up the waters upon the edges of the Commons next to the River more or lesse as the Floods doe happen but when the I'ide turns within few houres that water is carried off again but suppose the waters should upon very great Floods in winter be thrust up by this banke over halfe the Commons on Kesteven side for some hours or some few dayes 't were no harm to the Commons nor breach of Contract in the Earle unless the whole Commons do lye forty dayes under water then we confess they may re-enter and we do refer our selves to the Earles Contract for this particular It is worth the noting that they say this bank complained of doth preserve our own Lands dry winter and summer against all Floods and we acknowledge it doth so and do answer that all Holland Fens which doe all lye behind our lands are as well secured by this bank complained of as our own Lands are for when the waters shall break over this bank it must run over all our Lands before it can come into Holland Fens so that those of Holland who are our chief opposers ought not to complain nor have those of Kesteven any cause since we have performed our Contract with them and over performed it with those of Holland But the businesse is they doe all grudge to see the Drayners Lands bear winter Corn and Rape-seed Hempe and Flax and will not allow us to improve our inclosed Lands above the Commons which is very unjust for it those of Kesteven side doe please they may inclose one half of their Commons into small parcels as the Drayners have done and those of Holland may inlose all their Commons and be as dry as our Lands are but this subdivision of their Commons is no part of the Earles Contract we desire the Contract may be strictly observed and it will appeare that the Earle hath overdone his work rather then been short in any part of it and no man injured by it but those that complain most have most benefit 12. They say That the Earles banks doe cut off the ancient Sewers of the Country which otherwise would have drayned their Fens We answer That if their old Drayns could have drayned them how came the Country to lye drowned so many hundreds of yeares and how came we to find so many Records extant that shew severall attempts to have drayned the Fens in question by new works if their old Draynes would have done the work We doe acknowledge that our great River doth cut off all those old country Drayns on Kesteven side which ever did and still doe bring down the rain waters from the high Country into the Fens by which the Fens were alwayes drowned and by our taking of those waters into our River we carry them into the Sea which formerly did lye most part of the year on the Fens because they had no sufficient vent by the old out-fals and by this means only were those Fens capable of being drayned as by the Map appears so that we have cut off their old Drayns which did drown the Fens but not meddle with their old Drayns which did drayn them as they pretend for by their old out-fals to the Sea they could only drayn and all those old Drayns and out-fals to the Sea doe lye behind the banks complained of and behind all our inclosed Lands on Holland side and we have not cut off those old Draynes nor out-fals to the Sea but have left them for the use of Holland Severals and that the