| Description | Bundle of [parliamentary] papers concerning the Bedford Level: Drainage Act 1777. Contains "Plan of A Bill [...] for preserving the Drainage of the Middle and South Levels, and the Navigations through the Same"; "Bedford Level"; "Answers to the Observations, Intitled Bedford Level"; a scheme for improving the drainage of the Middle Level; queries about the proposed tax, which were read out at Board meetings in January 1775, and Charles Nalson Cole's answers to the queries. |