WATER-WORKES. 



againe. I hadde a continual purpose to 

 re-edifie it, but that I was interupted by 

 the ordinary course of Processe out of 

 the honorable Courts of Starr e-chamber, 

 Chancery, and Wardes ; the last of the 

 three bredd more white haires in my 

 head in one yeare, then all my Wetshod- 

 water-workes did in sixteene : Not that 

 I had cause to complaine of Injustice ; 

 but, because I understood not the course 

 of the Courts, being pusled with an old 

 Feodary, and a foolish EscAefer, (the life 

 and death of my cause resting in their 

 mercy.) Twelve Jurors who passed 

 against mee, lawe, equity, and conscience: 

 Upon which Verdit, I was, by Injunction, 

 commanded to deliver the body of a Warde 

 I had in keeping, which I refused to 

 doe : It happened my C ounce I I found 

 Error in the Office, and over-threwe the 

 former proceedings, which was the over- 

 throwe of my Water-workes for five 

 yeares space. 



The over-throwne-O^'a' was a stolne 

 Office, and found before I had notice of 

 it. But beeing over-throwne, matter of 

 greater consequence followed. 



The Queenes Atturney commanded the 

 90 Feodary, 



