27,6 The Statural Hiflory 



needs be overwhelmed with wate r, it (hall not be extinguifht, fac. 

 But the Waterworks that furpafs all others of the County, are 

 thofeof Enfton, at the Rock firft discovered by Tho. BufhellEXq; 

 about 4 or 5 and forty years fince, who cleanfingthe Spring then 

 called Goldwell, though quite over-grown with bryars and bufhes, 

 to place a Ciflern for his own drinking, met with a Rock fo won- 

 derfully contrived by Nature her felf, that he thought it worthy 

 of all imaginable advancement by Art. 



51. Whereupon he made Cifterns, and laid divers Pipes be- 

 tween the Rocks, and built a houfeover them, containing one 

 fair room for banquetting, and feveral other fmall Clofets for divers 

 ufes, befide the rooms above ; which when finifht in the year 

 1636. together with the Rock, Grove, Walks, and all other the 

 appurtenances, were all on the 23 d of Augufl, by the faid Tho. 

 Buftel Efq; prefented to the then Queens moft excellent Majefty, 

 who in company with the King himfelf, was gracioufly pleafed to 

 honor the Rock not only with her Royal Prelence, but commanded 

 the fame to be called after her own Princely Name, HENRIETTA : 

 At which time as they were entring it, there arofe a Hermite out 

 of the ground, and entertain'd them with a Speech ; returning 

 again in the clofe down to his peaceful Urn. Then was the Rock 

 prefented in a SWganfwer'd by an Echo, and after that a banquet 

 prefented alfo in a Sonnet, within the Pillar of the Table ; with 

 fome other Songs, all fet by Symon Ive. 



52. Which firuclure, with all the Ingenious Contrivances a- 

 bout it, continued in a flourilhing condition for fome few years, 

 till the late unhappy Wars coming on, it became wholly neglect- 

 ed, and fo fenfibly decayed, till at laft it lapfed (being next door 

 to ruinc) into the Hands of the Right Honorable and truly Noble 

 Lord, Edward Henry Earl of Lichfield, Lord of the foil; who 

 in the year 1 674. not only repaired the broken Ciflerns and Pipes, 

 but made a fair addition to it, in a fmall Ifland fituate in the paf- 

 fage of a Rivulet, juft before the building fet over the Rock; 

 which though the laft in erection,is yet the firft thing that prefents 

 it felf in the exterior Profteft of the whole work, Tab. 11. where- 

 in the Figures, 



1.1. Shew the water of the Rivulet. 



2.2. The Ifland in the middle of it, 



3. 3. the 



