The Don was one of those rivers of eastern England whose courses were radically changed by the land-drainage schemes of the seventeenth century.

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Sir George Cooke to Joseph Mellish, London, 3 October 1722.

Dineing last Thursday at Mr. Mayor's Feast, he surprized me with a letter he then received from the Master Cutler of Sheffield to desire a meeting at Rotherham upon Monday to consider of ways and means to make all people easie, that a Bill of navigation for the River Dunn might be got without much opposition.