"G.R.S 35"-- Spine. Color maps on endpapers. "Produced for the Society by 4word Ltd, Bristol"--Title page verso. "Established in 1876, the Society aims to promote the study of the history and antiquities of Bristol and the historic county of Gloucestershire, to encourage their conservation, and to publish relevant records, excavation reports, and other papers"--Page [4] of dust jacket cover. Includes bibliographical references (pages x-xiii) and indexes.
Summary:
"The extant 1583-1642 records of the Gloucestershire Court of Sewers are a nationally important survival from a small body of documentation that has rarely been fully appreciated by past scholarship. 'Sewers' in this instance are watercourses that drain low-lying coastal marshes, and these Gloucestershire records are to be prized and cherished as much as the rich agricultural land the commissioners of sewers served to protect."--xxvii.
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