Janus: Records relating to the interactions of the town and University of Cambridge

University/T.XII contains:
T.XII.1	Court of Sewers book
T.XII.2	Court of Sewers book
T.XII.3	Court of Sewers book
T.XII.4i	Order in Star Chamber
T.XII.4ii	Order of Court at Greenwich
T.XII.5	Record of proceedings at Sessions of Sewers
T.XII.6	Transcript of a report on the state of the Fens, by an anonymous 'Fenman', 1620 (catalogued as UA T.XII.1 section 20)
T.XII.7	Laws of sewers for carrying off the upland water about Exning, Landwade, Burrell, Reach and Swaffham
T.XII.8	Laws of sewers for the compass of three miles round Cambridge
T.XII.9	Laws of sewers for raising a sum of money by a rate by head of cattle for paying Walter Frost his expenses about scouring the great river of drains, etc.
T.XII.10	Royal Commission of Sewers, bearing great seal
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Records relating to the interactions of the town and University of Cambridge

Title	Court of Sewers book
Reference	T.XII.1 (former reference: L80)
Covering Dates	1610–1620
Extent and Medium	Loose gatherings and sheets, bound together in a limp leather cover in the 17th century; paper

Content and context

Comprises: papers, petitions (from the University, town, Isle of Ely, and various fen-edge towns such as Swaffham Bulbeck), presentments of sewers, Vice-Chancellor's correspondence addressed to Registrary Tabor, Privy Council Orders, depositions in the cause of Sir John Cutts versus the Commissioners of Sewers, vouchers for expenses 1619-20. Especially of note are: two plans of the course of the intended New River cuts by Sir Miles Sandys, c.1618 (section 18); copy of a report on the state of the Fens, by an anonymous 'Fenman', 1620 (section 20); minutes of Commissioners of sewers concerning the state of the Great (or Bedford) Level, 1618-20 (section 24,); royal orders for the Great Level, 1638 (section 26).

Further information

The plan is published on the cover of J.R. Ravensdale, Liable to Floods (1974).

There is an index to the contents housed with the volume.

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