Selected quad for the lemma: parliament_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
parliament_n	house_n	sir_n	william_n	3,051	5	7.6129	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52822	A narrative of all the proceedings in the drayning of the great level of the fenns extending into the counties of North'ton, Lincoln, Norffolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, and Huntington, and the Isle of Ely, from the time of queen Elizabeth untill this present May, 1661 / for the information of all concerned, by N.N.	N. N.	1661 (1661)	Wing N46A; ESTC R41533	3,849	11

their Assigns did petition the said Parliament that they would impowr the said Earl to go on and perfect the aforesaid work and in 1641. their case was committed But the said Earl dying about the said year and the late unhappy wars being then begun there was for some time a stop to the prosecution of the said Act till about the year 1646. when William now Earl of Bedford son and heir of the said Francis the Honourable John Russell and Edward Russell brothers to the said William Earl of Bedford Sir Myles Sandys Sir John Marsham Anthony Hamond Robert Henley Esquires and others in number and interest for the greatest part concerned in the said 83000 acres did address themselves to the Parliament then sitting that they might be impowred by an Act to prosecute the said work of Drayning for the recovery of that vast and lost Country which after several hearings of all parties before a Committee the Act was ready to be presented to the house of Lords but the late unhappy differences prevented for that time its further progress Afterwards about the year 1648. the said William Earl of Bedford by the assistance of Sir Myles Sandys Robert Henley Esquires and divers others of his said Participants did prosecute the obtaining of an Act of that pretended Parliament in order to the drayning of the aforesaid Level And after several hearings of all parties both of the Country and Adventurers before the Committee an Act passed in the said pretended Parliament in May 1649. By colour of which pretended Act the said Earl and his Participants did meet together in prosecution of the aofresaid 14 part Indenture And accordingly the Earl of Arrundel under whom Sir William Playter claims Collonel John Russell and Edward Russell Esquires brothers to the said Earl of Bedford Sir Myles Sandys under whom Collonel Samuel Sandys claims Sir John Hewett Sir William Terringham William Dodson Sir John Marsham Anthony Hamond and Robert Henley Esquires and divers others interessed in the said work of Drayning who had 7 parts of 8 in the said 83000 acres finding themselves out of possession did in June following resolve to raise moneys for carrying on the said work in prosecution of the aforesaid 14th part Indenture being inabled thereto as the times then were by the said pretended Act. But several persons failing in the due payment of their moneys as aforesaid the said Earl with the residue of his said Participants were necessitated about November following either to admit some other persons in the room of those who failed to supply the payment of such moneys as was raised according to the said Agreement or otherwise to lose the whole By which means moneys being raised the said work was carryed on till Lady Day 1653. and then the whole Level being adjudged drayned possession of the said 95000 acres was given to them accordingly and by virtue of an Act made in the Parliament begun the 25th of April 1660. it still continues Several Banks which together are above 200 miles in length 70 miles whereof are generally 9 foot high and 60 foot wide at seat or bottom the rest generally 5 foot high and 24 foot wide at seat Besides they have cut one Navigable River 21 miles long an 100 foot broad besides divers Sewers and drains together above 400 miles in length some 40 foot some 30 some 20 none under 12 foot wide besides they have made divers great and Navigable Sasses and Sluces and Bridges for the doing whereof and in other expences and buildings and improving the said Level the said Earl and his Participants have expended at least 500000l. and great summs it will yearly cost to maintain it This being the true state of the Case as indifferent to all interests and as an affectionate friend to the whole I heartily wish and advise that all parties herein concerned would so far recede from their own opinions and private interests and for the preservation of the whole unanimously submit all differences to the determination of the Parliament or to such persons as they in their wisdoms shall think fit whereby the whole may be preserved and all particular interest may receive Justice according to the Equity of their Cause FINIS