An assault 



towards, 



against 



Chepstow- 



bridge by 



Salmons. 



WATER-WORKES. 



the brunt of all opposition. Our last 

 meeting was at Chepstow, and at the 

 mouth of the river Wye^ the Jewry 

 (having day given for their verdit, riding 

 over the bridge] upon a sodaine saw the 

 water swolne with a sea of Salmon. The 

 Inquest enquiring of them what news ? 

 they answered by signes (sith they were 

 as mute as fishes) they were bard of their 

 native country^ where all their ancestors 

 were bred & borne : & in their infancy 

 nursd, till they came to Salmons estate. 

 This moane they made by instinct of 

 nature : the Jury praid they would com- 

 mit no ryot, but indure the day of the 

 Juries verdict with-out their further ap- 

 proach ; and order should happily be 

 taken for egresse & regresse as of old : 

 The Bridge being in a dangerous case 

 meane while ; for it seem'd their so 

 neare coming, tended to no other pur- 

 pose but to strike up the heeles of the 

 Bridge, not laying his glory in the dust, 

 but the water : For feare whereof (as if 

 the Bridge had lost his heart of Oake) it 

 fell downe (heartlesse-lubber) of it selfe 

 within one yeare following, and for the 

 Salmons further comfort, the Jewrie told 

 58 them 



