After the dissolution of the Virginia Company in the mid-1620s, the lives  of 
John and Nicholas Ferrar are chiefly known through the history of the  
establishment of a godly community at Little Gidding in Cambridgeshire in  England. 
This has lent an air of sanctity to their later careers. But both men  still 
had material interests. They were investors along with many others in the  
largest land reclamation project of the period, the draining of the marsh lands  
on the borders of the counties of Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire and Norfolk  in 
the project headed by the 4th Earl of Bedford, as newly discovered evidence  
in the Court of Chancery shows (National Archives C2 Charles I T29/5/1  End).
                                                                              
            



   

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