Ingelbert

He was a poore-man, but Sir Hugh Middleton an alderman of London, moneyed the businesse ; undertooke it ; and gott the profit and also the credit of that most usefull invention, for which there 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.