27^6 The 3S(amral Hijiory 
needs be overwhelmed with water^ it (liall not be extinguiflit, (cyc^ j 
But the WattP'VPorks that furpafs all others of the County^ are { 
thofeof Enftcn^ at thei?oc^ firftdifcovered by Wo. Sw^e// Efq; 
about 4 or 5 and forty years fince, who cleanfing the Spring then 
called Goldwell^ though quite over-grown with bryars and budies, 
to place a Ciflern for his own drinking, met with a Rock fo won- 
derfully contrived by Nature her felf, that he thought it worthy - 
of all imaginable advancement by Art, 
5 1 . Whereupon he made Cifterns^ and laid divers Pipes be- 
tween the Rocks, and built a houfeover them, containing one 
fair room for hanquetting^ and feveral other fmall Clofets for divers 
ufes, befide the roojns above ; which when finiflit in the year 
1636. together with the Grove ^ Walht and all other the 
appurtenances, were all on the 29"^ of AuguH^ by the faid Tho, 
BufielMq-^ prcfented to the then Queens moft excellent Majefty^ 
who in company with thtKing himfelf, was gracioufly pleafed to 
honor theiioc^not only with her Royal Prelence, but commanded 
the fame to be called after her own Princely Name, HENRIETTA : 
At which time as they were entring it, there arofe a Hermitt out 
of the ground, and entertain'd them with a Speech % returning 
again in the clofe down to his peaceful Vrn, Then was the Rock. 
prefented in a Song anfwer'd by an Echo^ and after that a banquet 
prefcnted alfo in a Sonnet^ within the Pillar of the Table ; with 
fome other Songs, all fet by Symon Ive, 
52. Whichj^r«^«re, with all the Ingenious Contrivances a- 
bout it, continued in a flouriftiing condition for fome few years, 
till the late unhappy ^T^jri" coming on^ it became wholly neglect- 
ed, and fo fcnfibly decayed, till at laft it lapfed (being next door 
to ruine) into the Hands of the Right Honorable and truly Noble 
Lord^ Edvpard Henry Earl of Lichfield^ Lord of the foil ; who 
in the year 1 674. not only repaired the broken Cifierns and Pipes^ 
but made a fair addition to it, in a fmall Iflaid lituate in the paf- 
fage of a Rivulet^ juft before the building fet over the Rock.'^ 
which though the laft in ere£i:ion,is yet the firft thing that prefents 
it felf in the exterior Projfeil: of the whole work, Tab, 1 1. where- 
in the Figures, 
I.I. Shew the water of the Rivulet. 
2, 2, The Idmd in the middle of it f 
3. 3. the 
