(a) Feare 

 of private 

 harme makes 

 publike 

 hatred often 

 to arise from 

 long-laid 

 rest. 



WATER-WORKES. 



(a) head against mee : weening my com- 

 ming to bee the overthrow of their Pos- 

 terity. 



I protest thats not my purpose, but to 

 put a foote the Mister y of Winter and 

 Sommer-drownings, to the comfort of the 

 Countrey, and present profit of the present 

 Inhabitants : humbly praying your Lord- 

 shipp, as you shall receive a great increase: 

 so, you do not (according to the new 

 fashion) by extreme racking, ransake the 

 succeeding Issue of the faithfull Fol- 

 lowers of your eldest Ancestors, whose old 

 gotten-glory, at Rodes and Malta (in de- 

 fence of the holy land) the Brittish Tradi- 

 tions and Recordes, in great aboundance, 

 doe testifie. 



I have done with my Mechanicals^ and 

 the hopefull river of Wye; only I will 

 fixe this accidentall merryment in the 

 Frontispice (or broad-brow) of my Preface 

 to my Water-workes : signifying the cause 

 of these excursions to proceed from un- 

 beleeving creatures, possessed and puf- 

 pasted with pride and peevish opposition. 



An. act of Parliament will bee required 



for joyning of Peter-Church^ Vow-church 



and Torneston, there distance beeing not 



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