ing date the 28 March, 1611, and this being executed by
Middleton the former agreement was ordered to be
cancelled.--Repertory 30, fo. 100.

M20 Opposition to Middleton's work.

67 The lord mayor to the lords of the council, 10 July,
1609.--Remembrancia, ii, 347 (Index, pp. 554-555).

68 See Paper containing "objections against the river," with
answers.--Cal. State Papers Dom., vol. lxxviii, No. 106.

69 Journal House of Commons, i, 442, 445.

70 "Mr. Beaulieu to Mr. Trumbull, resident at Brussells," 9 May,
1610.--Winwood's Memorials, iii, 160.

71 Repertory 29, fo. 231.

M21 Pecuniary assistance granted to Middleton by James, May, 1612.

72 Journal 28, fo. 176b.

73 These "king's shares," as they were called to distinguish them from
"adventurers' shares," were sold by Charles I in 1636 for an annuity
of L500, entered on the company's books and paid yearly as the
"king's clog." Both classes of shares have become so valuable that
they have been subjected to frequent sub-division. At a sale by
auction, which took place in London, 15 Nov., 1893, an undivided
adventurers' share fetched L94,900.

M22 The New River opened, 29 Sept., 1613.

74 Alderman of Queenhithe and Coleman Street Wards; Sheriff 1603. From
1624 to 1626 was one of the representatives of the city in
parliament. His brother Robert had sat for the same constituency in
the parliament of 1614.--Repertory 26, pt. i, fo. 146b; Repertory 31,
pt. ii, fo. 282b; Parliamentary Return 1879 (Appendix), p. xxxix.

M23 Compulsory use of the New River water, 1616.

75 Remembrancia (Index), p. 557.

76 Id., p. 558.

77 Id., p. 559.

78 The first dividend was paid in 1633.--Smiles, "Lives of the
Engineers," pp. 130, 131.

M24 A City loan of L3,000 to Middleton, Sept., 1614.

79 Repertory 31, pt. ii, fo. 396.

M25 Middleton created a baronet, Oct., 1622.

80 In 1611 "James offered the title of baronet to all who would pay the
exchequer L1,080 in three annual payments, being the sum required
for the pay of a hundred foot-soldiers for three years."--Gardiner,
"Hist. of Eng. (1613-1616)," i, 560.

81 Cal. State Papers Dom. (1619-1623), p. 455.

82 Remembrancia, iii, 114, viii, 3 (Index, pp. 462-465).

M26 The City votes Middleton a gold chain, Nov., 1623.

83 "Court and Time