Bedford Level Act 1663

XXI. Recital of certain Complaints by particular Persons and Parishes as to the draining, &c. the said Lands.

Commissioners appointed for hearing the said Complaints.

And whereas perticular Persons and Parishes doe conceive and alledge That the dreyning of one Place hath drowned and made worse the Lands in other Places And whereas diverse Persons likewise doe alledge and complayne That the said nynety five thousand Acres in many Places are not indifferrently sett out or allotted according to the Law made at Lynne in the sixth Yeare of the late King Charles nor according to Agreement made with the Country but in many Places greater Quantityes have beene taken from the Owners Co[m]moners and Townships then ought to have beene, and that some Lands have beene taken as belonging to one Parish and County which in Truth did belong to another, and in many Places the Allottments have been taken very inconvenient for the Towneships which ought not to have beene by the said Agreement And whereas the dreyning aforesaid and future Maintenance of the said Greate Levell ought to be without Prejudice to Navigation And because all Complaints which have beene made and all Prejudices which have beene or shall be done to perticular Persons Parishes and Places cannott by this Act be sufficiently provided for and remedied Bee it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That Sir John Tracy Knight S^r. Charles Mordant S^r: Nicholas L'Strange Barronetts S^r. William Hovell Knight, Edward Pepis Humphry Beddingfeild Nicholas Stileman Esquiers for the County of Norfolke, S^r. Nicholas Bacon Knight of the Bath, S^r. Lionell Tolemach [X1 Bar]^t S^r John Duncombe Knight S^r. Edmond Pooley Knight, S^r George Reve Knight and Barronett, S^r. George Weneve Knight Thomas Waldegrave Esq[uire] for the County of Suffolke, S^r Dudley North, S^t Thomas Wendy Knights of the Bath Levinus Bennett Esquier Robert King John Pepis Docters of the Law, Thomas Crouch Francis North Esquiers for the County of Cambridge, S^r Thomas Sclater Bar^t L'Strange Colthrop John Millecent Thomas Hall John Sotheby Esquiers John Bing Esq[uire] & W^m Wrenn Esq[uire] for the Isle of Ely, S^r Francis. Compton Knight, Robert Apprece, Sutton Ashfeile [X1 Esq[uire] ] Anthony South D^r of [X1 the Law] Robert Paine Richard Nailer Ferrers of Gedding Esquiers for the County of Huntington, S^r William Dudley Knight [X1 & Bar]^t Maurice Tresham Francis Kirkham Lewis Palmer, Christopher Thursby Francis Lane George Tresham [X1 Esquiers] for the County of Northampton, S,^t Charles Hussey S^r John Newton Baronetts S^r Thomas Meres S^r. Anthony Irby Knights S^r. Anthony Oldfeild Baroriett Richard Brownlowe Daniell Rhoades Esquiers for the County of Lincolne shall be and are hereby made and constituted the present Comissioners for the Purposes herein mentioned,

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