Bedford Level Act 1663

XXXVII. Proviso respecting Suits by Persons interested in Londoners Fen, for Rents of their Shares received since Level adjudged drained, and for Contributions against the Owners and Occupiers of Upwell, Outwell, and Welney.

Provided alwayes and be it enacted That it shall and may bee lawfull to and for S^r. John Watts Knight and others who derive any Interest under the Drayners of that Fenn called Londoners Fenn his and their Heires and Assignes to sue and implead all and every Person and Persons their Executors and Administrators that have taken and received the Rents and Profitts of his or their Share and Proportion of Londoners Fenne remaining from the Share and Proportion allotted and sett out by the said Law of S^t. Ives since the said Levell was adjudged drayned and to sue for and recover the same in any of his Majestyes Courts at Westminster And also That it shall and may bee lawfull to and for the said S^r. John Watts and the Participants aforesaid his and their Heires and Assignes heretofore Owners of the severall Proportions in Londoners Fenn sett out by S^t Ives Law for the Adventurers Recompence for dreyning the Low Grounds in Upwell Outwell and Welney to pursue and prosecute before the said Comissioners or any seaven or more of them their Clayme and sue for Releife against the Owners or Occupiers of the Fenny and Low surrounded Grounds lying in Upwell Outwell and Welney aforesaid whose Grounds did not all contribute or not in equall Proportion to the said nynety five thousand Acres to draw them into Contribution in Ease of the said S^r. John Watts and the Participants aforesaid and thereupon the said Comissioners or any seaven or more of them are hereby impowred to adjudge and decree unto the said S^r. John Watts and the Participants aforesaid his and their Heires and Assignes such Proportion out of the said Grounds which have not equally contributed as aforesaid, as to the said Comissioners or any seaven or more shall seeme meet