A famous 

 preacher 

 shall be 

 maintained. 



WATER-WORKES. 



we shall bee able to sing in tune, you 

 must be Maister of the Musick, and Or- 

 ganist with all. 



Now I have made knowne unto your 

 Lordship my morrall an AMechanicall mys- 

 teries, you see what preparation I have 

 made for the body : If care be not had 

 for the salvation of the soule, all my 

 buildings and foundations bee shuttle and 

 sandy. I am by the vertuous and honest 

 Gentlemen, and others in my neigh- 

 bourhood, importuned to raise a famous 

 Preacher amongst them. Their impor- 

 tunity shall not need, I will desire onely 

 their assistance with but a little more 

 helpe then my owne ; your Lordships 

 favour ever assisting us. The case stands 

 thus. There came unto mee, a dozen 

 yeares since, a yong Minister, having a 

 good witte, a good memory, and a pritty 

 dribble of learning : who made him- 

 selfe fitte to teach children. Hee was 

 intertained like a Levite ; and had the 

 liberty of a Levite ; but with-in short 

 time hee became a counterfeit Puritane. 

 Under coulour whereof he ingros'd halfe 

 the good opinions of the Parish, to re- 

 taile them to his profit and advantage, 

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