Reference
R3/140
Title
Letter To the Duke, a long letter: Woburn Abbey
35 pages
Reads- Concerning His Grace's Estates in the Lordship at Thorney. The condition of the sluices and tunnels, the mills, drains, the Fens and Dykes, Dams and navigation. The method of plowing the fen lands, and of milling. "I do not know any other part of England where a grazier & dairyman can get so much money as in Thorney; nor where a man may ruin himself sooner by plowing."
Date free text
9-13 Aug 1762
Production date
From: 1762 To: 1762
Level of description
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