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SIR HUGH MYDDELTON M.P. 



TART II. 



about 850/. a year. At only twenty years' purchase, 

 the capital value of a single share at this day would be 

 about 17,000/. But most of the shares have in course 

 of time, by alienation and bequeathment, become very 

 much subdivided ; the possessors of two or more frac- 

 tional parts of a share being enabled, under a decree of 

 Lord Chancellor Cowper, in 1711, to depute a person to 

 represent them in the government of the Company. 



SOURCE OF NEW RIVER AT AMWELL, NEAR WARE. 1 

 [By Percival Skelton, after his Original Drawing.] 



1 The monumental pedestal repre- 

 sented in the foreground of the en- 

 graving was erected by the late Kobert 

 My me, Esq., the Company's engineer, 



to the genius and patriotism of Sir 

 Hugh Myddelton. Its inscription 

 runs thus : 



Sacred to the Memory of 

 Sir Hugh Mydelton, Baronet ; 



whose successful care, 



assisted by the patronage of his King, 



conveyed this stream to London ; 



an immortal work, 

 since man cannot more nearly 



imitate the Deity 

 than in bestowing health. 



