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DRAINAGE OF HATFIELD CHASE 



PART J. 



and brought distress and ruin on many who had engaged 

 in it. The people who dwelt on the northern branch of 

 the Don complained loudly of the adventurers, who 



MAP OF THE LEVEL OF HATFIELD CHASE. 

 [Corrected, after Dudale.] 



were denounced as foreigners and marauders; and they 

 were not satisfied with mere outcry, but took the law 

 into their own hands; broke down the embankments, 

 assaulted the Flemish workmen, and several persons 

 lost their lives in the course of the riots which ensued. 1 



1 R. Ansbie writes the Duke of 

 Buckingham from Tickill Castle, 

 under date the 21st August, 1628, as 

 follows : " What has happened be- 

 twixt Mr. Vermuyclen's friends and 



workmen and the people of the Isle of 

 Axliolmc these inclosed will give a 

 taste. Great riots have been com- 

 mitted by the people, and a man 

 killed by the Dutch party, the killing 



