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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… for the benefit of the National and Sunday Schools. The flood of charitable donations was by no means stayed in the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the assessments had in most cases been reduced owing to flood damage. The Longchamp fee had been reduced to1/12 and …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… had been recently flooded. The results of the great marine flood of 1236, when hundreds of lives were lost in Wisbech … (Hunts.), Ely, or Brandon (Suffolk). Efforts to repair the flood damage are shown by the half day's labour required in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… West spent £200 on a new sluice, which was broken by a sea flood in or before 1523, 4 but by 1566 there was a certain … by Thorney, Whittlesey and Wisbech'. 7 The great flood of 1613, probably the worst since that of 1236, 8 … numeration). Acts of P.C. 1613-14, 265-7, 299. This flood was commemorated by an inscription on the wall of the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… notwithstanding creditable efforts to repair them. The flood was followed ( c. 1300) by the diversion of the Ouse. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… road and the river, with low-lying land beyond liable to flood, meant that any substantial additions had to be located …