WATER-WORKES. 



them the great Lords were Lords of the 

 stickes and stakes, not of the River ; the 

 River was the Kings : no prohibition lay 

 against them, but that they might law- 

 fully enter into their old habitations and 

 places of resort : onely the great Lords 

 will say, they have three yeares posses- 

 sion, or it may be, chalenge prescription ; 

 which cannot be ; you being the Kings 

 Tenants, no time going beyond the King. 

 I am not satisfied, how after such a world 

 of Labour and Toyle by the Commissioners 

 and Jurors, that the bare Information of 

 a Weare-owner (perhaps) could annihilate 

 all our painfull Indevors for the good of 

 sixe Shieres with a Supersidias. 



If I should forget to tell your Lord- 

 shipp it hath beene in the memory of 

 many yet living, that the River of Wye 

 did yeeld Salmon so plentifully as Sturgeon 

 in some partes of Germany : & that a 

 Hereford-shire servantwould surfet onfresh 

 Salmon as oft as a Nor th-Hampton-s hire-man 

 on fatt Venison : and since my nativity, 

 till yeares of discretion had over-taken 

 mee, I could not Learne this lesson. For 

 my Foster-mother Woodhill^ old mother 

 ^ and mother Spooner (such Mothers, 

 59 there 



It is most 

 strange, and 

 yet most 

 true. 



