A maister of 

 a water-work 

 compared to 

 the general! 

 of an army. 



The several! 

 offices of the 

 sluces. 



WATER-WORKES. 



Armie, which having beleagred a Towne, 

 it behooveth him for their safetie to 

 fortifie and block all passages and In-rodes, 

 that the Enemies sodaine Alarum annoy 

 them not : So, must the Maister of a 

 Water-worke attend every shutt, and shower 

 that threatens excesse (whether in mid- 

 day^ or mid-night) commanding his Centi- 

 nell-Servant to search the sluces, whether 

 they bee up or downe. 



If it happen before mowing, or in your 

 after-math-time, take up the Sluce, and give 

 it passage into the maine River: for, the 

 sodaine over-plus, your Trench-royal I, will 

 convoy into your everlasting-trench; un- 

 lesse, your desire be to over-flow some 

 parcel! of pasture or meade thats over- 

 eaten. 



I protest it hath beene more grievous 

 to mee in Summer-season, to see a muddy- 

 floud run idle with-out command, then to 

 see a lustie wanderer quarter the country, 

 with-out being put to worke. Touching 

 the offices of my number of sluces ; the 

 first commands the main-river in the be- 

 ginning of my Trench-royal I. The second, 

 commands the maine River into my brav- 

 ing-trench some halfe mile lower. The 

 114 third, 



