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TitleExtract from register of privy council for council at Greenwich, 9 July 1637, recording petitions from Bishop and Dean and Chapter of Ely, justices of peace of Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, and inhabitants of Over, Willingham and Cottenham, all of which were debated...
Description... at which king declared: The decrees whereby the Fens adjudged to be drained to be in no wise impeached; The complaints concerning the inequality of the allotments to the church of Ely and Cambridge colleges to be deferred to the commissioners that made the decree and the king's surveyor general; The setting out of the allotments to the drainers to proceed with all speed and without the interruptions of complainants; Any disturbance to have the immediate assistance of the board for suppressing the same, in which connection the king declares he dislikes complaints of this nature unless with just cause and that any person trusted with the government of the country should be stirrers of complaint; Mr [blank] Castle Esq, a justice of the peace of Hunts, who 'hath in this way miscarried himself' to be discharged from commission of the peace and sent for to answer for his misdemeanour
Date1637
CreatorNameSandys Family: Fen and other Estate Papers
RepositoryCambridgeshire Archives
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