 | William Elstobb - Bedford Level (England) - 1793 - 318 pages
...drains been properly maintained and preferved, and had the waters of the great Ouze, not been divert^ cd and turned out of their antient courfe. And that this...eye-witneffes) has for the moft part, been occafioned by the negle£l in putting the laws of fewers in due execution, in thefe latter times : and that before the... | |
 | Samuel Wells (barrister.) - 1830 - 862 pages
...neglected or destroyed ; and it was, says Sir William Dugdale, in. his History of Embanking and Draining, a long received opinion, as well by the borderers...upon the fens as others, that the total drowning of the Great Level at this time, was, for the most part, occasioned by the neglect of putting the laws... | |
 | Mary Evelyn Monckton Jones - Great Britain - 1922 - 220 pages
...of this Leet or Law day. DRAINING OF THE FENS (Dugdale, History of Imbanking and Draining, p. 375) It hath been a long received opinion, as well by the...this Great Level (whereof we have in our times been eyewitnesses) hath for the most part, been occasioned by the neglect of putting the laws of sewers... | |
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It hath been a long received opinion, as well by the borderers upon the Fens as others, that the total drowning of this Great Level (whereof we have in our times been... 