The history of imbanking and drayning of divers fenns and marshes, both in forein parts and in this kingdom, and of the improvements thereby extracted from records, manuscripts, and other authentick testimonies / by William Dugdale.

THE INDEX,

• IMprovements by Banking and Drayning, in Forein Countries, viz.
  • Egypt pag. 1.
  • Babylon 5.
  • Belgique Provinces 10.
  • Frizeland 14.
  • Gallia Cis-Alpina 9.
  • Greece 6.
  • Holland 12.
  • Holstein. 15.
  • ...Italy, viz.
  • Fossa Mariana 9.
  • Fucine Lake 9.
  • Placentia 9.
  • Pompein Marshes 6.
  • Zeland 15.
• Improvements by Banking and Drayning in England, viz. in
  • Cambridgshire 299.
  • Isle of Ely 356.180.
  • The siege thereof by King Wil∣liam the Conqueror 186.
  • Thorney 360.
  • Derbyshire 138.
  • Essex, viz. the Marshes on Thames 74.
  • Havering and Dagenham Le∣vell 82.
  • Gloucestershire 213.

Kent.

• The Marshes on Thames 59.
• Lesnes Marsh 62. b. 65. a.
• Plumsted Marsh 62. b.
• East-Kent 36.
• The Ordinances of Edmund de Passele, Iohn de Ifield, and Stephan de la Dane there 36.
• The Ordinances of Iohn de Love∣tot, and Henry de Apuldre∣feld there 38.
• Romeney Marsh 16.
• The Laws for Conservation thereof, made by H. de Bathe, a Justice Itinerant in 42 H. 3.19.
• The Ordinances by Iohn de Love∣tot, and Henry de Apletrefold, 16 E. 1.24. b.
• The Ordinances made by Henry de Apletrefeld, and Bertram de Trancrey 18 E. 1.27. a.
• The Ordinances made by Tho∣mas de Lodelow 35 E. 3.31.
• Immunity to the Bayliff and Ju∣rats 33. b.
• Incorporation of its Inhabitants 34. b.
• Huntendonshire 365. a.
• Ramsey ibid.
• Wittlesey mers 363. a.
• Kent and Sussex 83.
• The ordinances of Iohn Fogg, and his fellow Justices, concerning the Marshes betwixt Roberts∣brigge, and Romeney 52. b.

Lincolnshire.

• The Marshes on Ankholme 150.
• Axholme, alias Hatfield Le∣vel 141.
• Holland 219. a.
• Crowland 219. a. 179.
• Kesteven 194. a.
• Deping fen, ibid. & 206. a.
• ...

• Lovell's undertaking to drain it 206. b.
• Kesteven and Holland 198. b.
• The Marshes in Lindsey 153. b.
• Folsedike 167. a.
• The Marshes on Witham 168. b.

Middlesex.

• The Marshes in the Suburbs of London 73. b.

Middlesex and Essex.

• The Marshes on Thames 69.
• Norfolk 288. a.
• Ma••shland 244.
• The old Podike first raysed there 245. a.
• When first repaired, and how 246. b. 248. a.
• The new Podike made there 264. a.
• Northamptonshire 368.
• Nottinghamshire 138. a.

Somersetshire.

• The Marshes there 104. a.
• Sedgmore 111.
• Suffolk 298.
• Surrey. The Marshes on Thames 65. b.
• Sussex Marshes 87. b.
• Pevensey Marsh. The Laws and Ordinances for conservation thereof 95. a.
• Yorkshire 136. b.
• West Riding 115. a.
• H••lderness 130.
• Banks and Sewers. Abatement in Tenths and Fifteens, by rea∣son of the great chardge in their repair 131. b. 258. a.
• Allowance by the King towards their repair 121. b. 254. a.
• Commissions and Statutes of Sew∣ers; Observations thereon 369.
• Commissioners of Sewers, their compulsorie power in case of neglect in performance of their Ordinances and Laws 60. a. 66. a. 347. a.
• Distresses taken by their autho∣rity of such as observe not their Decrees 21.23. b. sold 250. a.
• Land sold by them for neglect in paying of Assesments 63. a. 74. a. 82. b.
• Their power to make new Tren∣ches and Banks in case of ne∣cessity 139. b. 243. b. 298. a. 371. a. b. &c.
• To imprest Labourers for repair of Banks and Sewers 33.46. a. 47. b. 59. a. 60. b. 61. b. 78. b. 80. a. 100. b. 122. a. 135. b. 160. b. 204. b. 240. a.
• To make a Statutes and Ordinan∣ces according to the Law and Custom of this Realm, and the Custom of Romeney Marsh 47. b. 48. b. 58. a.
• Custom of the Marsh observed in repair of Banks and Sewers 44. b. 45. b. 46. a. b. 47. a. b. 78. a.
• Land gained from the Sea, to whom belonging 237. b. 239. a.
• Ouse (sive Wellenhee) The antient passage thereof to the Sea, by Utwelle and Wise∣beche 246. a. 248. a. 249. a. 256. a. 299. b. 300. a. 302. b. 333. a. 394. a. b. 395. a. b. 396. a.

The Great Level.

• Observations touching it; viz. what it was at first 171. b.
• How it became overflowed by the Sea 172. a.
• Holland and Marshland, how first gained from the Sea 174. a.
• How the main Level came first to be a Fen 175. b.
• The rise, course and outfalls of the several Rivers passing through it 176. a.
• How those their outfalls became obstructed 182. a.
• Of the vast extent and great depth of the Fresh waters oc∣casioned by those obstructions of their outfalls 179. a.
• The general drayning thereof, when first attempted 375.
• The chief contents of the Bill handled in Parliament, anno quarto Regis Iac. touching the general Drayning 386.
• Tides. Their flowing higher in Humber by four foot, than for∣merly 132. a.