WATER-WORKES. 



shall you release the grasse being bound, 

 and spend the snowe, which threatens your 

 prejudice, and free your grounds, that all 

 kinde of cattle, (Sheepe especially) may 

 have sufficient sustenance therein. 



My trench royall^ from the beginning to 

 the end, is three miles long ; it runnes so 

 precisely on the plimme or levell that 

 every fifth yeare I am driven to cleanse 

 the channel I : such store of muddy-sub- 

 stance is forc'd by my first sluce therein. 

 As the River Nilus drownes Mgipt from 

 the Abissine Mountaines, enriching the 

 countrey^ to the wonder of the world : so 

 doth the muddy-flouds from the upper 

 part of the Golden Valley^ (as from a 

 Golden Mountaine or Fountaine] improove 

 my estate beyond beleefe. It's not un- 

 knowne to my neighbourhood my demeasnes 

 at New-court was set and forsaken at forty 

 pound by year, besides my Parke, I set 

 it so my selfe, & let any man, that hath 

 an upright judgment and equall eyes in 

 his head, view and review it, hee will 

 say it will yeeld within three yeares, three 

 hundfeth pounds yearely, besides my 

 Parke. Many have said to me, no other 

 mans grounds lie so convenient to drowne 

 120 as 



