ABout Twelve Months since the said Warner being at Deale , observed their great want of good Water both for Town and Shipping , and was requested by divers of the Inhabitants to Erect Water-works there , but being advised that the Royalty belonged to his Grace the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury , would not ingage therein 'till most of the principal Inhabitants certified his Lordship of their want of Water , and Petitioned his Grace to countenance and encourage the said Warner therein .

Whereupon his Grace recomended a skilful Artist to Survey the Town and Grounds adjacent , and his Lordship being well satisfied with this Surveyer's report , gave Warner Leave and Encouragement ( in writing under his hand ) to begin and proceed in the said undertaking . On which the said Warner began and proceeded , in order to Supply the said Town and Shipping with Water , and hath expended and contracted for necessaries in this undertaking about Thirteen Hundred Pounds .

But hath suspended his proceedings at present by reason of the pretentions of Mr. William Rider , upon a Patent granted by the late King James unto Edward Burdett , Esq. ( a convicted Papist ) and to the said Rider at Burdett's request , as the Patent sets forth , for Watering the said Town , who thereon opposed Warners Bill ( twice read in the Honourable House of Commons ) for the purpose aforesaid , and obtained leave to bring in a Bill in his own Name , which Warner supposes was granted , upon the said Rider's Suggestions in his Printed Case , most of the Allegations of which , Warner hopes to prove are Notoriously false .

And that the Crown had no right to Grant that Patent , the Royalty belonging to the Bishop of Canterbury , but if any Interest passed thereby , it was in Trust for Edward Lord Grissin , who was Attainted and Outlawed for High Treason , and the Interest reverted again to the Crown .

And whereas the said Rider in his Case pretends , that 2500 l. was taken up to defray the Charges and Expence of the said Grant and Undertaking , and that Agents were sent down to treat with the Inhabitants of Deale , from whom they obtained Subscriptions . The said Warner hopes to prove by divers of the principal Inhabitants of the said Town , That no Money was ever laid out by the Patentees , or any Person for them , about the said Water-works , and that no Agents did ever appear to Treat with the said Town , or take Subscriptions on that account save only Cole alias Hall , Robinson and Gillibrand , which three Persons are mentioned in the Tryal of Sir John Friend , folio 19. and therein declared to be in the Assassinating Plot and sworn to be then at Deale , who were there some time under colour of this Patent , but on discovery of that Plot ( Search being made for them ) these Agents fled , Cole alias Hall , into France , and the others not heard of since at Deale .

And this Patent hath not been made use of , neither before nor since that Plot , but only at that Juncture of Time , about which time Rider the other Patentee also was committed to the Fleet-Prison , as disaffected to the Government .

And whereas the said Rider in his Case sets forth , that the 2500 l. was not applied towards the Water-works , by reason of the disagreement of the Parties concern'd . Now considering to and for whom the Patent was granted , who the Agents were ( that took the Subscriptions ) and the conveniency of Deale for Correspondency with France : Whether it may not be necessary to enquire who those Parties are that disagreed , and to what use this 2500 l. was applied ? is Humbly submitted to the Consideration of the Honourable House of Commons .

And the said Warner having at the Request of the Town of Deale , by the Leave and Encouragement of the Lord of the Royalty , hath contracted for and expended about 1300 l. on the aforesaid Undertaking , and having also covenanted to pay considerable Yearly Rents for 99 Years for Grounds convenient , upon which he hath erected Buildings for the Purposes aforesaid . And having no way left to make himself Reparation for the several Summs of Money he hath Expended , and Contracted for about the Premises aforesaid ; Humbly hopes that the Honourable House of Commons will not pass any Bill to confirm the said Patent , to the Prejudice of the said Warner's Right .