WATER-WORKES. 



respects of your commands that Weare My 

 Brother and my selfe being Commissioners 

 in a commission of Shewres, not daring to 

 do our duties without my Lord your 

 Fathers privity (hee having one Weare 

 on the River, being Lord President of 

 Wales and our Lord and Master) wee ac- 

 quainted him with the Commission and 

 upon my salutation (I protest) he com- 

 manded us that his Weare should bee 

 puld downe, if it appeared profitable to 

 the Country. That noble Earle of Wor- 

 cester with his honorable and vertuous 

 sonne the Lord Harbart, how their weares 

 will be dispensed with-all in these daies 

 all the shires will referre unto their 

 honorable dispositions. For Sir Edward 

 Winter; there is nothing I take it but 

 true honor in him. My acquaintance 

 with him is but small; yet if I bee not 

 much deceived hee respects more the 

 common-good \ then his own private; al- 

 though (indeed) hee was (to say the truth) 

 upon the last Commission a commis- 

 sioner very bitter against the Weares 

 over-throw. I saw the reasons thereof, 

 and did allowe of his unreasonable prose- 

 cution. Hee showed much witte therein, 

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Pacience 

 perforce. 



