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RefNoKBLC/2/16/328/1
AltRefNoR59/31/X/20
Title"Drafts, 1831 - 1839"
DescriptionSub-bundle of draft papers, many concerning the conveyance of Adventurers' lands in the Bedford Level. Contains bargains and sales, leases, feoffments premises and precepts to James Blunt; John Dodson; Thomas Fisher; Earl of Hardwicke; William Lee; Frederick Robinson; Thomas Robinson; William Rook; John Sayle; John Seaber; Nathanial Sisford; Francis Smedley; Henry Stevens; William Gale Townley; James Valentine; Benjamin Vipan and Samuel Wells; and from Hart Buck and Ebenezer Foster. Also contains bonds with William Brooks; Sills Gibbons and John Owen; a draft deed of covenant to the Earl of Hardwick; draft reports about Over and Swavesey Bank, and Roswell Hill Pits; draft report of the public house Committee; draft report of a Committee appointed to view of the Middle and South Levels; Samuel Wells' draft bills of expenses incurred attending the 1836 Over Inclosure and Drainage Bill, the 1837 Over Inclosure and Drainage Bill and the 1839 General Drainage and Sewers Bill; the petition of the Bedford Level Corporation against the Witcham Inclosure Act; draft particulars and conditions of letting; notes and correspondence.
Date1830 - 1840
CreatorNameBedford Level Corporation
RepositoryCambridgeshire Archives
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