and translated Montagne's Essayes.
He dyed of the great plague at Fulham anno 1625.
Sir Edward Ford (1605-1670).
[948]Edward Ford[949], esquire, printed 5 or 6 sheetes in 4to—Mr. Edmund Wyld haz it—
'A designe for bringing a river from Rickmansworth in Hartfordshire to St. Gyles in the fields, the benefits of it declared and the objections against it answered, by Edward Ford of Harting in Sussex, esq., London, printed for John Clarke, 1641.' Memorandum that now (1681/2) London is growne so populous and big that the new river of Middleton can serve the pipes to private houses but twice a weeke, quod N. B.
I beleeve this was afterwards Sir Edward Ford, quondam a gentleman commoner of Trinity College, Oxon: de quo vide in prima parte A. W.
Vide in my trunke of papers a printed sheet of his of....
['Twas[950] he built the high water-house over against Somerset howse, pulled downe since the restauration because a nusance.]