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THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE COURT OF SEWERS, 1583-1642

by Rose Hewlett

Published by Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. 1st. 2020

Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper. Gloucestershire Reocrd Series Volume 35. These remarkable Court of Sewers records open a window on communities of the Gloucestershire Levels between 1583 and 1642 and their struggles against encroachments from the sea in a changing political climate. 'Sewers' here are watercourses, natural or manmade. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine.

Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

ISBN: 9781913735005
Stock no. 1826354

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Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements
Abbreviations; Saint's Days and Feast Days
Bibliography
Glossary
INTRODUCTION
A nationally important survival
The need for regulation
Early commissions of sewers in Gloucestershire
Further evidence of sea walls
The four Volumes of records
The area today
Commissioners, clerks, treasurers, surveyors and jurors
Finances, rates, fines and estreats
Sea walls
Land drainage
Chestle Pill, Main Pill, Wain Bridge and the Marsh Common
Oldbury on Severn
Slimbridge Warth
The 1607 flood
The 1636 flood
Editorial Method
THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE COURT OF SEWERS, 1583-1642
Volume One, 1583-1607
Volume Two, 1607-15
Volume Three, 1615-31
Volume Four, 1635-42
INDEXES
Personal names
Places
Selected subjects
APPENDIX
Chronological List of Court Sessions
MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
Lower Level tithings
1607 flood woodcut
Drashing a reen at Peterstone
Map 1: The Severn Estuary Levels
Map 2: The Gloucestershire Levels
Map 3: Chestle Pill, Main Pill, Wain Bridge and the Marsh Common
Map 4: Oldbury on Severn to Shepperdine Chapel
Map 5: Shepperdine Chapel to Berkeley Pill
Map 6: Slimbridge Warth
Tomb of Sir Thomas Throckmorton, Tortworth
Hill Pill, from the outfall to the Severn
Signatures of commissioners, 1615
Defensive stakes portecting a sea wall
Sea wall marker stone from Arlingham
Sea wall at Aust, 1789
Oldbury Pill outfall
Tide flaps at Berkeley Castle, 1802
Oldbury on severn, 'Mapp of the Seawalls', c. 1686
Sketch of Oldbury pillhead, 1954
Upper Level tithings

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