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to speake, beeing people of the quietest 

 and peaceablest dispositions of the King- 

 dome) not to neglect our Common-wealth. 

 Remember the love your Father and 

 Grand-father bare their-our Countrey : 

 remember wee were their kinsmen, and 

 servants, and of the dearest respect of any 

 what-soever with them. Wee desire 

 but passage of the Law of the Land; 

 and that your Lordship wil not speak 

 in favor of your owne Weare (O super- 

 naturall vertue !) nor my Lord of Shrews- 

 buries -, nor any of the rest, no, nor suffer 

 a Super sidias to land neare Chepstows-bridge 

 least it make it shake for feare, of a second 

 Commotion of Salmons against it. I have 

 acquainted your Lordshipp with this 

 w^//T-mechanical, & made known unto 

 you the raising of our Church, the plant- 

 ing of our Preacher, the Chappel & 

 Almes-house with the rest apendant : if 

 your Lordship take but a superficial view 

 of this giddy Invention (as some of your 

 late servants term'd it) it wil satisfie me, 

 it being but a particular plot, not able to 

 be performed by any whose estate exceedes 

 mine a million ; because the place of my 

 Residence affords Meddow, Pasture, all 

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