Alluding to 

 that in 

 maister Fox 

 his Acts and 

 Monuments. 



WATER-WORKES. 



As at a quarter Sessions, one great man 

 will under-take the managing of matters 

 belonging to all the Bench. If poore I, 

 should but speake to countenance a cause 

 (forawenchmadewomanbeforehertime.) 

 Hee lookes on the one side, as if I were 

 put in Commission onely to certifie Re- 

 cognisances for Ale-houses : or to give a 

 respective voyce if a faction happen to 

 arise : so, these Baby-commissioners for 

 the River of Wye, hold their Hattes in 

 their hands, the one legge lower then 

 the other, ready to doe all their duties at 

 once : and the grand Commissioners (like 

 Bishop Banner) with Riding-Rods, threaten 

 displeasure, or utter destruction, to all 

 that were not of their devotion towards 

 the Weares. This hath beene the Com- 

 mon course and custome of the Commission 

 of Shewres, to out-countenance the cause 

 by the greatest persons : but, the LORD 

 of Heaven ever so wrought, that the 

 Weare-owners were more beholden to the 

 Supersidias then to twelve men : twelve 

 men having given their Verdit, a Judge- 

 ment against the Weares : & after all 

 this a Supersidias ! 6 ! The consideration 

 of it would have made old Ploy den (had 

 56 hee 



