law
Commission of Sewers, royal commission to constitute a temporary court with authority for the repair and maintenance of drainage canals and other means of defence against inundation from the sea:
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1427
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severalx commissions de sewerez, soient faitz as diverses persones
Rot Parl1 iv 333
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1439
)
pur les graundes damages et perdes quex avindrent par les graundes cretens de l'ewe du miere, [...] fuist ordeigné et graunt, qe [...] severalx commissions des sewers serroient faitz as diverses persones [...] en toutz les parties du dit vostre roialme qe mestier serroit
Rot Parl1 v 27
sewer1 (1376)