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THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE COURT OF SEWERS, 1583-1642

Written by Rose Hewlett
Published by Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society in 2020
ISBN: 9781913735005

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THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE COURT OF SEWERS, 1583-1642
Written by Rose Hewlett.
Stock no. 1826354
1st. 2020. Hardback. 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. ISBN: 9781913735005. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

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Cover of THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE COURT OF SEWERS, 1583-1642 by Rose Hewlett

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