| Description | Contends that the petition is misleading in referring to support of 47 parishes and hamlets when there are only seven full parishes within the Soke and most of interest lies within Peterborough whose interest is in Borough Fen; and that Eye, Thornhaugh and Wansford [all where there were Bedford estate interests] refused to support. Narrates history of drainage from Lynn Law of 1630 onward, including the earl's work 'brought to great perfection within six years' before being ousted by king, the subsequent confirmation in 1641; contests claims that drainage has led to drowning of meadows, the petition's claim that the undertakers are operating a monopoly |