Catalogue description A plan of the fen lying to the N. of Peterborough, marking the lordships of the Lord...

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Details of 8ANC7/59
Reference: 8ANC7/59
Description:

A plan of the fen lying to the N. of Peterborough, marking the lordships of the Lord Treasurer, Sir Thos. Cecil, the Earl of Lincoln and Sir Edward Dymoke, with notes that the Lord Treasurer is sole Lord of the soke of Burrow, and has, in Croyland, "wonne from the Queene and the towne below 500 acres," that the Earl of Lincoln and Sir E. Dymoke are for the most part sole lords from Milthorpe to Tattersall and so to Wildmore, where the Lord Treasurer is sole lord of the common, 30 miles in circuit; and that "there are very neere 600 townes commoners uppon these fens."

Date: 1597
Arrangement:

Enclosed in 8 ANC7/58

Held by: Lincolnshire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English

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