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Copies of letters, mostly initialled 'R. G.' [Richard, Lord Gorges], to or by the following: Robert Mingay, Ralph Peirson, Anthony Ham[m]ond, William Bourne, Mark Le Pla, Richard Shippen, J. Willis, Col. Francis Underwood, William Russell duke of Bedford, Hugh Underwood, Samuel Fortrey, Edward Barber, John Saffery, Peter Dymond, and Isaac Wheeler. fo. 2: list of addresses. fo. 88: blank. Several fos torn out. fo. 1v: 'BL 10608' (in pencil).

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Attached to fo. 3 is a sheet containing an estimate of money owing by the conservators for work done on the Middle Level, 4 Feb. 1673. Incomplete alphabetical index (late 17th cent.) begins on a flyleaf.

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A series of letters and other papers relating to the Corporation of the Bedford Level.

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Offprint from Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, Volume 81.

Scope and Contents Copies of: Cornelius Vermuyden, Discourse touching the Draining of the Great Fens, London, 1642; William Dodson, Design for the perfect draining of the great Level of the Fens, London, 1665. Attached to fo. 3: map of Fens, drawn by Shepheard. Attached to fo. 33: map of Bedford Level, drawn by Shepheard. Attached to fo. 91: Andrewes Burrell, An Explanation of the Drayning Workes which have been lately made for the Kings Maiestie in Cambridgeshire ..., [n.p.], 1641, printed tract. fo. 90v:...