A liberall 

 offer refused, 

 which if 

 taken, had 

 benefited the 

 offerer more 

 then the 

 offered. 



WATER-WORKES. 



seeming to excuse it by some unexpected 

 troubles (which indeed hee indured) & 

 that his weighty occasions would not 

 give him leave to under-take, nor suffer 

 his servants to attend it, hee having in 

 the eye of his house, a hundred Acres 

 of errable land, worth not above three 

 shillings an Acre, which amounts but to 

 fifteene pound a yeare. Yet I made him 

 this offer, if he would bee pleased to make 

 it plaine, as plaine might bee, for foure 

 yeares, I would give him fifteene pound 

 a yeare, beeing the true valew of his 

 land : and after the end of the foure 

 yeares, I would take it for one and twenty, 

 yeelding him a hundred pounds a yeare, 

 the charge wholy mine, in raising sluces, 

 stankes, trenches, and what else so-ever : 

 so, during the foure yeares, hee should 

 receive fifteene pound a yeare ; and ever 

 after, a hundred pound yearely to him 

 and his heires for ever. 



I did not require any thing untill the 

 foure yeares were expired, and then my 

 demaund was but three hundred pound. 



The yeare following, one hundred came 

 in unto him againe, the second, an other 

 hundred, & the third he received another; 



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SO 



