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RefNoKAR109/046/87
AltRefNoR109/46/item 87
TitlePetition of inhabitants of south part of the Isle of Ely to Commissioners of Sewers at King's Lynn against appointment of Sir Cornelius Vermuyden on grounds that he demands a high proportion of best grounds and small proportion of worst, that it will lead to foreign nation being planted amongst them, and that he is disabled in his estate by loss sustained in his northern works, and for appointment of earl of Bedford, of whose sufficiency to undergo so great a work there can be no doubt
Date13 January 1630/1631
CreatorNameSandys Family: Fen and other Estate Papers
RepositoryCambridgeshire Archives
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