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 This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B09855 of text R182494 in the English Short Title Catalog. Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 5KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B09855 Wing R561E ESTC R182494 ocm 64551652

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 eng Drainage -- England -- Fens -- Early works to 1800. Fens, The (England) -- History -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1660-1688. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo Reasons, humbly offered to the consideration of the Parliament, against the passing a bill, intituled An Act for incorporating the undertakers for the n/a 1685 3 861 2 0 0 0 0 0 23.23 C The rate of 23.23 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2014-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-10 Sampled and proofread 2014-10 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
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 .

I. THAT several Lords and Inhabitants of 11 several Towns in the County of Lincoln having right to the Soil and Comons of Deeping Fen and several other Fens , containing together above 30000 Acres , which being surrounded with water , several persons offered to undertake the dreining thereof , so as in consideration of their Charges , they might have one moiety for their Incouragement : Thereupon , by an Act of Parliament made in the 16 and 17 years of the Reign of his late Majesty , by Consent of the said Lords and Commoners , all the said Fens were Vested in several Persons therein named , in trust as to one Moiety for the Lords and Commoners , and the other Moiety for the Undertakers , with a Proviso therein , That if the Undertakers did not sufficiently drein the same within 7 years , or should after the 7 years permit the same to be hurtfully surrounded with water for 5 years together , and that the same should be so adjudged by view or presentment in that behalf made by 12 of the Commissioners of Sewers for that County , and filed on Record in the Court of Chancery ; That then and from thenceforth the said trust as to the Undertakers Moiety , and all Estates by them granted thereout should cease and be of no effect . And the Trustees were to stand seized thereof in trust to permit the Commissioners to receive the Profits for Dreining the said Fens . An the said Undertakers were also by the said Act to Cleanse and Imbank the several Rivers and Dreins therein mentioned for the benefit of the said Lords and Commoners .

And the said Undertakers not having hitherto performed the said Proviso , but after the said 7 years having permitted the said Fens to be overflowed by the space of 13 years together , as by several Verdicts and an Adjudication of 48 of the most able and substantial Commissioners of Sewers , whereof the Earl of Linsey and the Lord Sherrard were two ready to be produced , may appear ; the Interest of the said Untertakers is thereby become forfeited , and therefore there is no Reason that either they or their Assigns should be incorporated .

II . That the said Lords and Commoners by means of what the Undertakers have already done , and their neglect of what they ought to have done , are in a far worse Condition now than they were at the time of their said Undertaking ; and in particular , the Towns of Spalding and Pinkbeck who have the greatest share of Commons in the said Fens , who had two navigable Rivers , and ne●● wanted fresh Water for the use of the said Towns , have not sufficient fresh water either for 〈…〉 Cattle .

III . That in Case the Undertakers should be Incorporated , it would be more difficult for the Lords and Commoners to obtain satisfaction for any wrong done by them , then now it is : And such Corporation is not intended to be any Benefit to the Lords and Commoners , but to themselves .

IV . That by this Bill the Undertakers would be obliged only to Dyke and Scower the Rivers of Glenn and Welland ; when as by the said Act they are obliged to maintain the Banks thereof ; which , if not done by them as they ought , ( being part of the Consideration for the said Moyety ) will be a very great charge to the Country .

V. That by this Bill all the said Rivers , and the Banks thereof made and to be made , are to be Vested in the Undertakers for ever ; when as the same by the former Act were Vested in the Trustees , as well for the said Lords and Commoners , as for the Undertakers ; whereby the said Undertakers will not onely be Intituled to the Soil of right , belonging to the Queen Dowager , and other Lords there : But also divest them of their several Fishings in the said Rivers .

VI . That by this Bill the Undertakers Moyety , ( which by the said former Act was Vested in Trust , subject to the Proviso aforesaid ) is to be absolutely settled in the Undertakers , and their Heirs . Notwithstanding their Breach of the Privoso aforesaid , and thereby the power of the said Commissioners will be wholly taken away ; and so the Lords and Commoners , who consented to give the Undertakers 15000 Acres of Land upon the Proviso aforesaid , will not only loose the same , but also be in a worse Condition as to their own Moyety then they were before . And the Trust and Proviso aforesaid will be wholly destroyed .