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RefNoKBLC/2/16/325/10
AltRefNoR59/31/X/10
TitleManuscript Reports
Description16Sub-bundle of manuscript reports and other manuscript papers. Contains '"Order and specification for a new indrain"'; a copy of Dodson’s Designe of 1665 (referred to in the lists of reports (see R59/31/X/14) as the original manuscript; '"Answer of the Corporation to the case of Marshaland and Fordham"'; the petition of King’s Lynn, relating to the Bedford Level Act 1663; report of Committee of the House of Commons; Mr Smith's report about the Shire drain, together with a plan; copy of John Leaford’s '"Some observations"'; Charles Labelye's preliminary report on the condition of the South Level and its outfall; objections to turning waters of Borough Fen through Old South Eau; "Observations on the outfall by Wisbech"; report on embanking Walpole Salt Marshes; extracts from '"Reasons against embanking Sutton Marsh"'; Thomas Hyde Page's '"Observations on present state of the South Level"'; small book of dimensions of the Wisbech River, 1775; particulars of levels in the Ouse and Hundred Foot Rover with observations; William Elstobb's "State of Facts"; James Golborne's observations about Kinderley’s Cut by; an estimate for a new cut below Gunthorpe Sluice; John Rennie Sr's report about St John’s Eau; John Rennie Sr's report on Hundred Foot Washes and a rough note on alluvial soil.'
Date1661 - 1812
CreatorNameBedford Level Corporation
RepositoryCambridgeshire Archives
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