Samuel Wells

The History of the Drainage of the Great Level of the Fens, Called Bedford Level - Volume 1

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Produktbeschreibung

Published 1828-30, this two-volume work provides documentation and historical information relating to a remarkable swathe of eastern England.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 860
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 50mm
• Gewicht: 1369g
• ISBN-13: 9781108070317
• ISBN-10: 1108070310
• Artikelnr.: 41609641

Autorenporträt

Samuel Wells is dean of Duke Chapel, Duke University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. The Great Level
2. Causes of inundation
3. Original state of the Great Level
4. State of the Great Level from the Conquest to the Reformation
5. State of the Great Level during the reign of Queen Elizabeth
6. State of the Great Level under Charles I
7. Oliver Cromwell
8. State of the Great Level under the Commonwealth
9. Division of the Great Level
10. State of the South Level
11. Petitions
12. State of the Great Level under the Protectorate continued
13. Causes of the restoration
14. Continued exertions of William Earl of Bedford
15. Phenomena of the Fens
16. Boundary of the Bedford Level
17. Officers of the corporation
18. General commissions of sewers
19. Registration of deeds
20. Parliamentary proceedings
21. Particulars of the 95,000 acres of Adventurers' lands
22. Division of the Three Levels
23. The Middle Level
24. The South Level, and its boundary
25. The port of Lynn
Index.