AUBREY'S 'BRIEF LIVES'

=... Ingelbert.=

[A]Mr. Ingelbert was the first inventer or projector of bringing the

water from Ware to London[1] called _Middleton's water_. He was a

poore-man, but Sir Hugh Middleton[2], alderman of London, moneyed the

businesse; undertooke it; and gott the profit and also the credit of

that most usefull invention, for which there[3] ought to have been

erected a statue for the memory of this poore-man from the city of

London.--From my honoured and learned friend Mr. Fabian Philips,

filiser of London, etc., who was in commission about this water.

_Notes._

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