The Dedication. 



Man may justly say, that only Lead keeps 

 the two Elements asunder. 



Sir, you know that what I write is truth, 

 I would not have People think I equivo- 

 cate when I tell them without Romancing", 

 how that Pond on the Houses top serves 

 not only to keep Fish but also to play your 

 fine Water Works, both in your Cellar and 

 in the round Fountain in your best Garden, 

 but also in the Ovall Fountain in the fore 

 Court, where the water rises twenty foot 

 Perpendicular; neither must I forget the 

 same water runing through several Mean- 

 ders, Plays also into the Summer House 

 that stands in the great Pond. 



Sir, as you have to my thinking all the 

 pleasure the Water and the Air can afford 

 you at home, so I know you can have abun- 

 dance more when you are pleased to divert 

 your self at Bore-place, and injoy the Plea- 

 sure of the great Pond at Winckhurst, 

 either in the Summer time with your Angle, 

 or in the Winter with your Gun in your 

 Boat, when the wild Ducks and other Fowl 

 resort thither in great Numbers, few Ponds 

 being of that extent as to cover twenty 

 Acres, which it is most commonly in the 

 Winter; beside your other Pond calPd 



Baillies 



