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Humphrey Bradley
- ... that in 1599 Henri IV of France appointed Humphrey Bradley maître des digues du royaume, or "master of dykes of the Kingdom", in effect a monopoly of all dyking and land reclamation work in France? Source: 1: Basil Morgan (2004). Bradley, Humphrey (fl. 1584–1625), designer of land drainage systems. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/50333Template:Only in print. Template:Subscription required; 2: Lawrence Ernest Harris (1961). The Two Netherlanders: Humphrey Bradley and Cornelis Drebbel. Leiden: E.J. Brill, page 100.
- Reviewed: Le Nove porcelain
Created/expanded by Justlettersandnumbers (talk). Self-nominated at 21:40, 28 June 2019 (UTC).