For no 

 simple fee. 



WATER-WORKES. 



reasonable termes : but before I could 

 make him beleeve hee was a foole, he 

 gott the Fee-simple thereof. Which Pre- 

 sident doth falsifie the old-said-Saw, Thou 

 art an old doting foole. After I had wrought 

 this farre, I caused my servant (a Joyner) 

 to make a level! to discover what quan- 

 titie of ground I might, (from the entry of 

 the Water) obtaine : allowing his dubling- 

 course, compassing Hills to cary it plym 

 or even : which fell out to bee some 

 three hundred Acres. After I had plim- 

 med it upon a true Levell, I be-tooke 

 my selfe to the favour of my Tenants, 

 Friends and Neighbours, in running my 

 maine-trench (which I call my Trench- 

 royall] I call it so, because I have within 

 the contents of my worke, Counter-trenches,, 

 defending -trenches, topping, or bracing- 

 trenches, Winter and Summer - trenches, 

 double and treble -trenches, a traversing 

 trench with a point, and an ever-lasting 

 trench, with other troublesome -trenches : 

 which in my Map I will more lively 

 expresse. 



When the Inhabitants of the country 

 wherin I inhabit, (namely the Golden- 

 Valley) saw I had begun some part of 

 86 my 



