WATER-WORKES. 



greevous unto you : in respect the recom- 

 pence shall (much more then the greatest 

 usury) outgo your laying out. 



In the yeare 1601. I was forced to 

 cleanse my trench-royall^ being almost 

 fiTd to the levill of the Banke, and for 

 the excellency of the substance therein 

 conteyned, all the dung-hils in the coun- 

 trey can witnesse it was their very quint- 

 essence : the quantity thereof may be 

 estimated by the breadth and depth ; and 

 I know five hundred honest Yeomen, 

 Husbandmen, and Laborers would say, 

 the Substance would over-countervaile 

 the charge beeing imployed for Wheat, 

 Onyons, Cabiges, Carets, or any other 

 Rootes agreeing with the nature of that 

 Residence of the Trenches. 



Which Muddy substance beeing put on 

 the one side of your Trench-royal I, you 

 may by Boat, carry to your wheat-land, 

 to your Garden^ or to better any other 

 barren ground that y eeldes no profit : For, 

 I will drowne Winter and Sommer at my 

 pleasure, a thousand Acres of Medow. 



I will sustaine no inconvenience at any 

 time, unlesse the negligence of my ser- 

 vants suffer the Sluces to be upp when 

 126 they 



