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Misc. Book, 17. Monson ms. XXXIII. Lincoln Drainage.
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- MON 7/17
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Title (The name of the record)
- Misc. Book, 17. Monson ms. XXXIII. Lincoln Drainage.
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1571-1766
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Page 1. Account book of the undertakers of the Ancholme Level, including receipts and expenditure, c. 1638.
Page 2. Survey of land owners in Scawby, North Kelsey, Bishop Norton, Waddingham, Atterby.
Page 3-13 Accounts for various portions of drainage work.
Page 14. Privy Council order relating to Ancholme Drainage. 1636.
Page 15. Finding of a jury relating to a commission by which the undertakers were working.
Page 16 & 17. Portions of a case against the undertakers.
Page 18. Petition of sir John Monson for the settlement of the dispute, 1640.
Page 19, 26. Printed statement of sir John Monson's case.
Page 20. Bill of costs of the same.
Page 21-2. Privy council orders relating to the troubling of the undertakers; disturbances described, 1640-1.
Page 23. Copy of an agreement relating to lands allotted to one of the participants in the scheme.
Page 24. 1638. Memorandum of receipt of land in Worlaby by two of the adventurers, 1639.
Page 25. Memorandum of levies made for drainage purposes in Ancholme valley, 1571-1625.
Page 27-29, 60, 76. Clauses in the act.
Page 30, 68. Statement of the case of sir John Monson against the freeholders of Winterton, 1662.
Page 31, 73. Act for confirmation of certain degrees of sewers made by the Commissioners for the levels of the river Ancholme. 1661.
Page 32-39 Rentals and memoranda of allottments made to the undertakers, 1662-77.
Page 44-48, 77. Statement of Winterton case.
Page 49-50. Account of works done in Waddingham.
Page 51-3. Case of inhabitants of Epworth against the undertakers.
Page 54. Map of the rivers Colne, Gade and Bulborne with the mills (New River).
Page 56. Map of a survey of the River Dunn (Don) in order to improve navigation from Hull to Doncaster. 1722.
Page 57. Acts of parliament relating to Don navigation, 1725-32.
Page 58. Reasons for improving the navigation of the Don.
Page 59. Order for levy of a drainage rate in certain towns in East Fen.
Page 61, 75. Scheme and estimation of expences for better draining of the lowlands adjacent to the River Witham, by John Grundy engineer of Spalding, 1739.
Page 62. Plan of the River Witham, John Grundy.
Page 63. Case for the mayor, sheriffs, etc. of Lincoln against the bill for drainage of Witham Fens, undated.
Page 64. Plan for raising money for drainage of Witham Fens, c. 1762.
Page 65. Particulars of proposed floodgates in Boston, undated.
Page 67. Appointment of a committee of the House relating to a petition from certain landowners in Lincolnshire, 1698.
Page 69. Resolutions of a meeting called in Lincoln to consider draining the River Witham, 1753.
Page 70. Anonymous observations on the bill now pending for the drainage of the Witham.
Page 72. Report on the state of the Ancholme level. Thomas Yeoman, 1766. 2 plans, one of 1640.
Page 74. Note of the contents of the sorrounded grounds in the Level of the Ancholme, c. 1662.
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- Lincolnshire Archives
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- English
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Misc. Book, 17. Monson ms. XXXIII. Lincoln Drainage.