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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… desire, that you will enquire of your two officers, Toby Fen and Bell, who were employed at Harwich, and Orford, what …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… College, requiring them to make choice of Nicholas Fen, a scholar of Winchester School, for New College, at the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… milch-cows are usually kept. An act for draining certain fen land and low grounds was passed in 1842. The living is a …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 60 a. of rough meadow in Queenholme, Henholme, and Snout fen and 40 a. of mowable meadow in Shelfords. The rest of the … comprised meres and three extensive commons, Hempsals fen in the east, Middle fen, and West fen, the last intercommoned with Over. 67There …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the 18th century also known as Wivelingham, 96lies on the fen edge south of the river Ouse or Old West River, forming a … north is covered with alluvium and the north-east is peat fen. Patches of gravel form several drier sites within the fen and the beds of two former meres are marked by shell …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… by 1500. Reeves and haywards were appointed regularly and fen reeves, constables, and aletasters less frequently. From … In the late 16th and early 17th century the work of the fen reeves became more important. Four were elected by the … and Hempsal Outcasts, and employed men to stake Hempsals fen, gravel the fen roads, and do emergency work during …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… RG 9/1019. Tice, Methodism in Cambs. 44; L. M. Munby, Fen and Upland, 57; P.R.O., RG 31/2, Ely dioc. no. 591. …