Sentence:  These men first gouerned the Citty in her Nonage, and some are of the minde, that they were the first Authors of the "Padnaus" slight, and their retyrement to the <WSD>Lakish</WSD> or marshie Isles, as also of their first building there. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Wet; moist.