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HUGH MYDDELTOX, M.P. 



TAUT II 



executed a conveyance of one-half of the whole under- 

 taking to tlic King on the 2nd of August following, and 

 the conditions seem to have been faithfully adhered 

 to on both sides. One of the first benefits Myddeltoii 

 derived from the arrangement was the repayment to him 

 of one-half the expenditure which up to that time had 

 been incurred. It appears from the first certificate 

 delivered to the Lord Treasurer, that the total expendi- 

 ture to the end of the year 1612 had been 4485/. 18*. lid., 

 as attested by Hugh Myddeltoii acting on his own 

 behalf, and Miles Whitacres acting on behalf of the 

 King. The following is a copy of the entry in the Pell 

 Records, in the State Paper-office : 



" Hugh Middleton. 1 30th of January. By order, 

 dated the last of December, 1612. To Hugh Middleton, 

 of London, goldsmith, the sum of 2242/. 19s. 5 if/., being 

 the. moiety of 448 5/. 18s. lid. for charges by him dis- 

 bursed and expended since the 24th August, 1611, until 

 the 1st of December, 1612, inclusive, about the bringing 

 and conveying the New River from the springs of Chad- 

 well and Amwell, in the county of Hertford, unto the 

 north parts of the city of London, which is to be borne 

 by His Majesty, the said charges appearing by a book 

 of the particular expenses thereof, subscribed by the said 

 Hugh Middleton, and Miles Whitacres, gentleman, ac- 

 cording to the tenor of the letters patent for warrant 

 hereof, dated 2nd May, 1612 . . 2242 19,s. 51eZ." 



Further payments were made out of the Treasury to 

 Myddelton, in like manner, for charges disbursed by him 

 in executing the works done to the end of November, 

 1614, amounting to 4104Z. 5s. 6d. ; and in the Domestic 

 State Papers, under date April, 1616, we find a further 

 and final payment from the Exchequer of 2262. 9s. \d. ; 

 making the total payments out of the royal Treasury on 



1 We may observe that the name is 

 variously spelled in different docu- 

 ments, as Middleton, Mydclton, Mid- 



delton, &c.; blithe himself usually 

 signed his name "MydddtOO, 



