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• Drainage -- Great Britain
• Drainage -- Early works to 1800
• Great Britain -- Early works to 1800

• Drainage -- England -- Early works to 1800

• Elkington on draining (Printed by Mundell and Son, and sold by G. Nicol, ... London, ... and by Messrs. Robinsons, ... T. Sewel, ... Cadell and Davies, ... W. Creech, Edinburgh, and T. Archer, Dublin, 1797), by John Johnstone, Joseph Elkington, and Board of Agriculture (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A discourse concerning the drayning of fennes and surrounded grounds in the sixe countreys of Norfolke, Suffolke, Cambridge with the Isle of Ely, Huntington, Northampton, and Lincolne (Printed at London : [By T. Cotes], 1629), by H. C. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A particular of the ninety five thousand acres of fenny and low surrounded grounds, lying within the great level of the fens. Which by an act of Parliament of the 29 of May, 1649. were alloted to William Earle of Bedford, his participants and adventurers for dreyning of the same. (London, : Printed for Richard Baddeley ..., 1653), by William Russell Bedford (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A brief remembrance when the report concerning the pretended ryot in the isle of Axholm shall be read. Humbly tendered to every individual member of Parliament, by the free-holders and commoners within the mannor of Epworth in the said isle, in number neer 1200. besides new-erected cottages. Against certain undertakers, who call themselves participants in the drayning of the level of Hatfield chase; concerning 7400 acres of commonable lands (being no part of the said chase, but lying within the mannor of Epworth) taken from the free-holders by the said undertakers about twenty yeers since, under colour of the late Kings patent contrary to law. And because the report doth not at all set forth the proceedings that have been at law, therefore the free-holders humbly inform, as followeth: viz. ([London : s.n., 1653]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• [To] the honorable assembly of the Commons House of Parliament The humble remonstrance of the benefits of drayning fenne lands in the severall counties of Yorke, Lincolne, Cambridge, Norfolke and Huntington. (London : Printed for George Bland Gent, [1628?]), by George Bland (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The designe for the perfect draining of the great level of the fens, called Bedford level, lying in Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, Huntingtonshire, Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire and the isle of Ely as it was delivered to the honourable corporation for the draining of the said great level the 4th of June, 1664 : as also several objections answered since the delivery of the said designe now in agitation : and as for the new works intended in this designe appears in the annexed map : and the charge of the whole calculated / by Collonel William Dodson. (London : Printed by R. Wood, and are to be sold by Henry Twiford ... and by Rich. Marriot ..., 1665), by William Dodson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The case of the mannor of Epworth in the isle of Axholm, in the county of Lincoln, concerned in the bill for an act for setting the level of Hatfield Chase humbly presented to the right Honorable the Commons of England in Parliament assembled. ([London : s.n., 1695?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The case of the owners of more than sixty thousand acres of rich and valuablelands, bordering upon the fenns, called, Bedford-Level: ([London : s.n., 1697]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Case of the town and port of King's-Lynn in Norfolk, as to their navigation. ([London : s.n., 1696]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The case of some of the adventurers and participants with the Right Honourable William Earl of Bedford in the draining of the great level of the fens stated in reference to a bill depending in Parliament for settlement of the said draining. ([London? : s.n., 1664]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A commission impowering the persons therein named, to hear and determine severall matters and things concerning the work of dreyning the great levell of the fenns. ([London : s.n., 1653]), by England and Wales. Council of State (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The case of Sir Robert Killigrew, Thomas Wyndham, William Killigrew, Henry Heron, and Edward Heron, drainers and participants of Lindsey Levell, in Lincolnshire, claiming under the late Earl of Lindsey. ([London : s.n., 1665?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Reasons, humbly offered to the consideration of the Parliament; against the passing a bill, intituled An act for incorporating the undertakers for the dreining Deeping Fen ([London? : s.n., 1685]), by England and Wales Parliament (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Reasons humbly offered, why the bill brought in by the adventurers in the fenns should not passe before the adjournment of the Parliament ([London? : s.n., 1660]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A paper delivered and dispersed by Sir William Killigrew. ([London : s.n., 1651]), by William Killigrew (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A short answer to a paper, intituled, Reasons humbly offered to the Honourable the Commons assembled in Parliament, against a bill brought in by Sir Robert Killigrew and others, undertakers and participants for the pretended dreining of Lindsey-Level in Lincolnshire ([London : s.n., 1698]), by William Killigrew (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The rioters in Lindsey levell and their abettors, would have it thought that our ancestors were such ignorant men, as to make all the lawes and statutes by which the Commission of Sewers is impowered to remove the surrounder of waters ... ([London : s.n., 1655]), by William Killigrew (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A relation of the proceedings & causes of complaint, between the undertakers with the Earle of Lindsey, in the levell of Fenns in Lincolnshire betwixt Bourne and Kine Eae, and the owners and commoners there. ([London? : s.n., 1650]), by Robert Bertie Lindsey (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A breviate of the cause depending, and proofes made before the committee of the late Parliament for the Fens by the inhabitants between Borne and Kime Eae, in the county of Lincolne, being lords, owners and commoners of, and in the several Fens, where in Sir William Killigrew, &c. pretends a title as sharers with the late Earle of Lindsey. ([London? : s.n., 1655?]), by William Killigrew and John Brooke (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The late Earl of Lindsey his title by which himself, and his participants, do claim 24000. acres of land in the fennes in Lincoln-shire; and concerning which a bill hath pass'd the House of Lords, and is now with the Commons, impowring Sir Henry Heron and Sir William Killigrew to perfect their undertakings; the which, if it hath not been according to the particulars contained in this paper, the countenance of any member of this House is in no sort desired hereunto. ([London : s.n., 1661]), by William Killigrew and Henry Heron (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• To shew the countreys consent for the drayning of Lindesy Levell. ([London? : s.n., 1671]), by William Killigrew and Henry Heron (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• History of the fens of South Lincolnshire : being a description of the rivers Witham and Welland and their estuary; and an account of the reclamation and drainage of the fens adjacent thereto (J.M. Newcomb ;, 1868), by W. H. Wheeler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Statutory authorities for special purposes. (Longmans, Green, 1922), by Sidney Webb and Beatrice Webb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of fen and mere (Longmans, Green, and co., 1876), by J. M. Heathcote (page images at HathiTrust)
• The W.D. drainage manual. (H.M.S.O., 1921), by Great Britain War Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• The W.D. drainage manual. 1907. (H.M. Stationery Off., 1908), by Great Britain War Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fens and floods of mid-Lincolnshire, with a description of the river Witham, in its neglected state before 1762, and its improvements up to 1825. With maps, plans, &c. (C. Akrill, 1882), by James Sandby Padley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mode of draining land, according to the system practised by the late Mr. Joseph Elkington. (M. Taylor, 1841), by John Johnstone (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the drainage of towns (W. Clowes, 1854), by Robert Rawlinson and Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The case of the tenants of the Mannor of Epworth in the isle of Axholm in the County of Lincoln.: Truly stated in brief by Lieu. Col. John Lilburn, and others of the free-holders there, on purpose to inform every man in the justice and equity of their case. And to prevent the many mis-informations of M. John Gibbons, and the drainers, and their participants. ([London : s.n., 1651]), by John Lilburne (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A discourse touching the drayning the great fennes,: lying vvithin the severall counties of Lincolne, Northampton, Huntington, Norfolke, Suffolke, Cambridge, and the isle of Ely, as it was presented to his Majestie. By Sir Cornelius Vermuïden Knight. Whereunto is annexed the designe or map. Published by authority. (London : Printed by Thomas Fawcet, dwelling in Grub-street neere the lower Pumpe, 1642), by Cornelius Vermuyden (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Anno regni Georgii II. regis Magnae Britanniae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, decimo septimo : at the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the first day of December, anno Dom. 1741, in the fifteenth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord, George the Second ... : and from thence continued by several prorogations to the first day of December, 1743, being the third session of this present Parliament (Printed by Thomas Baskett and Robert Baskett, printers to the King, 1743), by Great Britain and William Mure (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report from the Select committee of the House of lords appointed to inquire into the expediency of a legislative enactment being introduced to enable possessors of entailed estates to charge such estates with a sum, to be limited, for the purpose of draining and otherwise permanently improving the same; and to report thereon to the House; with the minutes of evidence taken before the said Committee. ([London :, 1845), by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords. Select committee on the charging of entailed estates for drainage and Charles Gordon-Lennox Richmond (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise of the law of sewers : including the drainage acts (Butterworths, 1864), by Humphry W. Woolrych (page images at HathiTrust)
• Irrigation and reclamation laws, etc., of Australia, Canada, Great Britain, India, and South Africa (Govt. print. off., 1925), by Carl Ludwig Wilhelm Meyer and Library of Congress Legislative Reference Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• A handbook of sewer and drain cases, noted in "The Surveyor and Municipal and County Engineer." Comprising cases relating to sewers in the general, sewage works, sewage disposal and rivers pollution prevention, combined drainage, house sanitation, and the prevention of nuisances. (St. Bride's Press, ltd., 1904), by J. B. Reignier Conder (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A history of the fens of south Lincolnshire, being a description of the rivers Witham and Welland and their estuary, and an account of the reclamation, drainage, and enclosure of the fens adjacent thereto. (J.M. Newcomb;, 1897), by W. H. Wheeler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the drainage of the great level of the fens, called Bedford Level; with the constitution and laws of the Bedford Level Corporation. (Published for the author, by R. Pheney, 1830), by Samuel Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sir Cornelius Vermuyden. The lifework of a great Anglo-Dutchman in land-reclamation and drainage, with some notes by the author on the present condition of drainage in England and a resumé of the drainage legislation in Holland. (Williams & Norgate; [etc., etc.], 1925), by J. Korthals-Altes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Agricultural progress : drainage / Talbot collection of British pamphlets. (Printed by J. B. Nichols and Sons, 25, Parliament Street, 1868), by James Sanderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• An historical account of the great level of the Fens, called Bedford level, and other fens, marshes and low-lands in this kingdom, and other places; with references to Leland's Itinerary, Dugdale's History of imbanking and draining, and others of the most approved authority. (Printed by W. Whittingham, 1793), by William Elstobb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Etudes sur le drainage au point de vue pratique et administratif : extraits d'un rapport à M. le Ministre de l'agriculture, du commerce et des travaux publics (C.-G. et V. Dalmont, 1853), by Hervé Mangon (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the amount and composition of the rain and drainage-waters collected at Rothamsted. (W. Clowes and Sons, 1882), by J. B. Lawes, Robert Warington, and Joseph Henry Gilbert (page images at HathiTrust)
• A collection of the laws which form the constitution of the Bedford Level Corporation, with sundry documents illustrative of ... the ancient and modern drainage of that extensive country called the Bedford Level . (R. Pheney, 1828), by Samuel Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• Court minutes of the Surrey & Kent Sewer Commission : Vol. 1, comprising the minutes of the first two commissions whose records exist, and covering the period from 1569 to 1579, and index. (London County Council, 1909), by Surrey and Kent. Commissioners of Sewers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Earl of Exeter with divers other lords and gentlemen are proprietors and owners ... of 36000 acres of fen and meadow ground, lying between the rivers of Glenn and Kyme Eaye in the county of Lincoln ... ([London : s.n., 1661]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An answer to such objections as were made by some commoners of Lincoln-shire and presented to both houses at the first sitting of this Parliament against Robert, Earle of Lindesey, and his participants concerning the draining of those fenns which lye between Lincolne, Berne, & Boston / set forth by Sir Will. Killigrew, Knight. (London : Printed for the author, 1647), by William Killigrew (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Earle of Lindsey his title, by which himselfe and his participants doe claime 24000 acres of land in the fennes in Lincolnshire ([S.l. : s.n., 1654?]), by William Killigrew (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A briefe relation discovering plainely the true causes why the great levell of fenns in the severall counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, Huntington, Northampton, and Lincolne shires, being three hundred and seven thousand acres of low-lands, have been drowned and made unfruitfull for many yeares past and as briefly how they may be drained, and preserved from inundation in the times to come : humbly presented to the honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament / by Andrewes Burrell, gent. (London : Printed for Francis Constable, 1642), by Andrewes Burrell (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A Narrative of the dreyning of the Great Level of the fenns, extending into the counties of Northampton, Norfolke, Suffolke, Lincolne, Cambridge and Huntington, and the Isle of Ely, containing about three hundred thousand acres ([London? : s.n., 1660?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A reply to Sir William Killigrews dispersed papers: by the owners and commoners in Lincolnshire. ([London : s.n., 1655]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• By the King, a proclamation for the preservation of the great level of the fens, called Bedford level, and of the works made for the dreining of the same (London : Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker ..., 1662), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II) and Charles 1630-1685 (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The history or narrative of the great level of the fenns, called Bedford level with a large map of the said level, as drained, surveyed, & described by Sir Jonas Moore Knight, His late Majesties Surveyor-General of his ordnance. (London : Printed for Moses Pitt ..., 1685), by Jonas Moore (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A narrative of all the proceedings in the drayning of the great level of the fenns extending into the counties of North'ton, Lincoln, Norffolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, and Huntington, and the Isle of Ely, from the time of queen Elizabeth untill this present May, 1661 / for the information of all concerned, by N.N. (London : Printed by A.N. for the use of the Author, 1661), by N. N. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• News from the fens, or, An Answer to a pamphlet entituled, Navigation prejudiced by the fen-drainers (published lately in defense of the petition of Lin, delivered to the Committee for petitions) : wherein is set forth the vanity and falsehood of that discourse, and it is proved that navigation is meliorated by the fen-drainers / written in a letter to the right honourable William Earl of Bedford, by a wel-wisher to His Lordship, and to the noble work of draining. (London : [s.n.], Printed in the Year, 1654) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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