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lived plentifully of their own ; yet if your Lordships 

 commiserating eyes look not speedily upon them, may 

 follow the destiny of some others of quality, yea colonels, 

 and never were under my command ; yet I never made 

 distinction when his Majesty s honour or service was 

 interested, or his well-deserving subjects suffered, and 

 were within my power of relief, for whose burials it 

 hath been my good fortune to pay ; they not leaving 

 behind them to the value of an angel ; and I humbly 

 conceive this act of charity, worthy your Lordships 

 owning, since your Lordships cheerfully passing the 

 act of my Water-commanding Engine enableth me 

 thereunto ; and I most humbly offer this little testimony 

 of gratitude, to be under your name thus employed. 

 And I intend there shall be so good order given therein, 

 within 6 months, as that there shall be a stipend given 

 to a person to read unto them during their meals, either 

 of military affairs or history, the better to avoid frivo 

 lous discourse tending to quarrels and quaffing. 



&quot; Thirdly, in favour and benefit of the commonalty 

 as well as your Lordships, and for the general good 

 and honour of this most famous City of London, I most 

 humbly offer, under your Lordships name and protec 

 tion, to cause a fair causeway to be made, upon which, 

 without disturbance, two carts may pass one by the 

 other for 2 miles together, at 4 of the greatest avenues 

 to the City, as the Lord Mayor and Aldermen shall 

 best advise ; and at the end of each of the four cause 

 ways, an Hospital and House of Correction to be 

 erected and endowed, with a perpetuity of 500 a year 

 to each house; and this pious work to begin within 

 two years, and to be finished within seven. 



&quot; Fourthly and, indeed, I should have begun with it, 

 according to the true rule a Jove principium I do 

 humbly offer, in honour of this House, to cause 1000 



