WATER-WORKES. 



able persons and others of account and 

 durst doe nothing. 



I praid to heare their grievances : They 

 said time out of rninde as appeared by 

 their records (kept in the Castell of the 

 Hay burnt by one Owen Glindwr) the 

 River of Wye (their free and Mother 

 River) was (in the troublesome times 

 betweene the houses of Yorke and Lan- 

 caster) so weared and fortified as if the 

 Salmons therein (on paine of imprison- 

 ment) had beene forbidden their usual 

 walkes ; and on paine of death (as in case 

 of high treason) not to trade with any of 

 the Earle of Marches men. 



The humble request of foure or five 

 shires will be that your Honors (with the 

 rest) will take pitty on a whole country, 

 groning under the burthen of intolerable 

 Weares, which (for private) are the very 

 Dammes and Letts of Publicke profit. 

 Your three houses with one Lords more 

 having more interest in those shires 

 (under his Majestic) then all other Land- 

 lords. 



The Counties reliefe rests almost in 



your Lordships hands ; the duty you owe 



my Lord of Shrewsbury, and his deare 



50 respects 



