The History of the Drainage of the Great Level of the Fens, Called Bedford Level 2 Volume Set

Volume 1: 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. Volume 2: Preface; A list of the present members of the Board; Registry fees; Regal table; 1. Presentation of sewers, 19 Ric. 2; 2. The like; 3. The like; 4. Sewers act, 23 Hen. 6; 5. Presentation of sewers, 28 Hen. 8; 6. General drainage act, 43 Eliz.; 7. Waldersea drainage act, 4 Jac. 1; 8. Commission of sewers, 15 Jac. 1; 9. Hampton Court order, 1616; 10. Sir Clement Edmonds' report, 1618; 11. Mr Atkins' report, 1618; 12. Lynn law, 1630; 13. The indenture of fourteen parts, 1631; 14. The charter of incorporation, 1637; 15. Hayward's original survey, 1636; 16. St Ives law of sewers, 1638; 17. Sir Cornelius Vermuyden's discourse, 1642; 18. Pretended act for draining the Great Level of the Fens, 1649; 19. General act for settling the draining, 1663; 20. Mr Dodson's design, 1664; 21. Tax act and schedules, 1667; 22. Inclosure prevention act, 1684; 23. First style act, 1750; 24. Second style act, 1751; 25. First North Level act, 1753; 26. Nene navigation act, 1753; 27. First bond act, 1755; 28. Second North Level act, 1771; 29. Second bond act, 1772; 30. Turf act, 1782; 31. Lot book for the Middle and South Levels, 1828; 32. Lot book for the North Level, 1828; 33. Report of a committee of the board as to the general liability of the corporation; 34. List of the several public and private acts of Parliament affecting the Bedford Level.