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 In and by which said Indenture, amongst other things, it is agreed as followeth. That if any one of the aforesaid parties or their assigns, after notice, should fail in the payment of such money as from time to time should be imposed on them in pursuance of the said Indenture for the carrying on the said work; that then it should be lawful to and for the rest of the said parties or their assigns to supply the same, or to admit some other person or persons to have the share of such defaulture, paying the sum [then] imposed on the said share: and that all such parties as aforesaid by himself or his assigns so failing; shall be wholly excluded and for ever debarred from demanding or receiving all or any such sum or sums of money, as any such person or persons had formerly disbursed for and towards the said work. After the executing of the said fourteen-part Indenture; divers of those Participants did assign and conveyed unto other persons several proportions of their Shares and Adventures, by them undertaken by the said Indenture.

By virtue of this Agreement, the said Adventurers and their assigns proceeded so far in this hazardous adventure; that after an expense of £100,000 therein, it was [in 1636] adjudged drained, at Peterborough.

And in October [1637], in the 13th year of the said King CHARLES—by a Law of Sewers made at Saint Ives, the said 95,000 acres were set out by description and boundaries therein mentioned: where and how this 95,000 acres should be taken out of each parish or landowner's land in the whole Level; according to which setting forth, the whole 95,000 was thus divided and allotted. First, 12,000 acres thereof, for the said late King CHARLES.

And 80,000 acres thereof, were divided into twenty lots, each lot containing 4,000 acres; which were divided amongst the aforesaid parties to the fourteen-part Deed and their assigns, as aforesaid.

And 3,000 acres did remain to be disposed of at the pleasure of the Adventurers.