WATER-WORKES. 



of their yeares travell in the Easter holy- 

 dayes. 



There is not one amongst ten that hath 

 five shillings to buy a Bale of Flaxe, but 

 forc'd to borrow money to put up their 

 trade, and runne to Hereford (loosing a 

 dayesworke) tofetchethesame: Thisdone, 

 they bee driven to buy halfe a bushell of 

 corne three or foure miles off, and in 

 their returne attend the grinding of it ; 

 which if a better Customer come, they 

 are sure to be served last. Withall, they 

 spend one day with the Weaver, and after 

 it is wove, before they can sell, they make 

 many journey es to markets, and honest 

 mens houses : And thus many dayes are 

 mispent in most miserable maner. 



Now (my Honourable Lord) to helpe 

 all these miseries ; I have, out of a yeares 

 consideration, put afoote a Remedy which 

 cannot well bee done, unlesse your Lord- 

 ship doe promise to countenance my dis- 

 covery ; if you do, He make your glory 

 shine as farre above all other Subjects, 

 as my Plot is hatefull to many envious 

 persons. 



My Mill is my first Worke^ governed 



by a little Bastard- Brooke, fedde with 



33 eight 



The meanes 

 to amend the 

 Countries 

 misery. 



The first 

 worke is 

 the Mill. 



