A good offer 

 of a good 

 heart. 



WATER-WORKES. 



and did us more harrne then all the rest : 

 God forgive him, and make him as firme 

 to the over-throwers of Weares as he is 

 faste to their upholders. Sir John Scuda- 

 more hath always beene the comfort of 

 the country : Nurse to the Infancie of 

 many young Gentlemen bred therein, 

 and Cherisher of the rest that were not 

 adverse. Hee hath ever said, if there 

 were any hope that the over-throwe of 

 the Weares would make the River (Wye) 

 Navigable, Portable or Sammonable, hee 

 would pull downe his first, to give an 

 instance to others. 



I beseech your Lordshipp, beare wit- 

 nesse, I say nothing of Sir Roger Boden- 

 hams Weare ; nor of none of the Weares 

 above Hereford Bridge. But this I say, 

 its a pitifull thing that any of your Lord- 

 shipps Weares with the rest, (built like 

 Babell threatning the skies with their 

 eminence) should hinder the Salmon- 

 fishing, which gave that sustenance to 

 five or sixe shires, as many thousands, 

 were a thousand times better susteined 

 and comforted then now they are, or can 

 bee. 



All that can be said, why the River 

 52 cannot 



