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RefNoKAR109/046/57
AltRefNoR109/46/item 57
TitlePaper addressed to the Privy Council, complaining of duplicate commission granted 29 January last by colour of which Sir Simeon Styward and others have proclaimed a session of sewers at Cambridge 7 April, empanelled juries of Cambs and Isle charging them to view defects in Ouse between Earith and Priest Houses, all of which previously viewed in 1617 and 1618...
Description... and also took a verdict about a drain in the manor of Willingham which no jury ever presented, whereby much faction stirred up, requesting duplicate commission be revoked and Sir Simeon, the chief stirrer of all this opposition with the university and town of Cambridge, told not to intermeddle and that rates and collections made by their warrant be returned; also that 4-mile stretch of West Water that king is due to cleanse in right of his manor of Somersham be cleansed or the king's part to be reserved, with marginal notes of other evidence to be adduced
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CreatorNameSandys Family: Fen and other Estate Papers
RepositoryCambridgeshire Archives
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