A letter to the Bishop of Ely that where a certain bancke in the Isle of Eley called Somersham Bancke, being three myles in length, an ordinary passage throrowghe the Isle to Wisbitche and the Wasshes, is in some places verie muche deayed, so as suche as travel that waie cannot pass without peril of them selves and their horses; and having ben so continued of late yeres necessetie hathe required, although by him and other Commissioners of the sewers for the repairing thereof by the Commissioners in the Fenns, who are charged therewith, order hath ben taken. Their Lordships praie him to consider thereof by his suthoritie as a Commissioner and Cheefe Lord of some of the townes chargeable with the bancke; to force them to repair the said bancke, according to the orders by his Lordship,


From: Acts of the Privy Council 1580