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feaCbnable Years) which fupply the King's Surveyor, 
and alfo large quantities of Rapum Sylv. (called CoaU 
feecl^ whereof they makeOyl, by breaking it between 
two great black Marble Stones of near a Tun 
Weight, one ftanding Perpendicularly on the other 
(they come out of Germany^ in MillSj C2\kd Oyl- Mills ; 
fome go with Sails, and ftrve alfo to Dreyn the Fens, 
and are called Engines, being of good ufe, and difcharge 
great quantities ot Water. 
Thefe Fens lying low, being of great extent, and 
receiving vaft quantities of Water from the high Coun- 
try, makes them fubjed: to Overflowing I and although 
there be great Coft and Skill ufed to keep rhem dry,, 
yet are fometime like a Sea ; Sheep having been brought 
out in Boats, and the Inhabitants fupplied in their up- 
per Rooms with Provifions by them. ToDrein them- 
there are great Curs of Twenty, Thirty, and Forty 
Foot wide, running through them ; moft of them made 
by a Body of Men cdXkdVnJertakers they alfo made 
very large Sluices, they being to have one third of the 
Ground alfo Built a great many Houfes, @c. intend- 
ing to inclofe them. But about the Year 1 641. a great 
Number of People got together at a Foot-ball playing, 
and pretending the Houfes (tood in their way, levelled- 
them, the Country having fince dammed up their 
Sluices, and built new ones^many running into the River 
Witham near Eofton ; The Sea, and other Places, by fe^ 
veral Sluices (called Goats %nd Clows) fome coft near 
2000/. and although made with great Skill and 
Strength, yet are fubjeciJ to be blown up, by the vaft 
quantities and force of Water that iyeth upon them 
(efpecially when Overflown) fome have two or more 
pair of Doers, of fix, Eight, or Ten Foot high, which 
Ihut, when the Water in the River is higher then in 
thq Dreins, by the weig^ht and force thereof, and fo. 
