CHAPTER XIX

Draining of Fens -- Monastic Works, Morton's Learn. -- Diversion of Ouse. -- Local Government, Jurats, Discontent. -- Jacobean polemics. -- First Drainage Company. -- Rising of Fen-men. -- Second Company, Huguenot Labourers. -- Third Company, Earl of Bedford, Vermuyden. -- Old River. -- Cromwell. -- Fourth Company, Prisoner Slaves, New River, Denver Sluice. -- Later Developments 398

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