affirmed to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, That he hath by long
and indefatigable pains and study, and with great and vast expences,
invented and found out a Secret in Nature, never heretofore
discovered, being a Water-Commanding Engine, of greater force and
advantage then hitherto hath been known; and being no Pump or Force
now in use, nor working by any Suckers, Barrels, or Bellows
heretofore used for the raising and conveying of Water; which said
Engine will yield very great benefit and advantage to the
Common-wealth, by draining of all sorts of Mines, Marish, Oazie, or
Overflown Grounds; by furnishing of Rivers and Cutts with water to
make them Navigable and Portable from Town to Town; by improving of
Lands wanting water; by the supplying and bringing in of water into
the City of London, or into any other places: and by divers other
ways and means whereby great Encouragement will be given to the
People of this Nation to undertake to work rich Mines, to drain, and
gain in many Marish, Oazie, and surrounded Grounds, which hitherto
they have been deterred to endeavour the improvement of, by reason of
the vast sums of money which must be necessarily expended by the
draining and conveying away the water out of the same. And whereas
the said Edward Marquess of Worcester is willing and contented to
setle a tenth part of the accruing benefit thereof upon his Majesty,
His Heirs and Successors, for the term of years after in this Act
mentioned; To the end therefore that the said Edward Marquess of
Worcester may have and enjoy the full and particular benefit and
profit of this his new Invention, with a Prohibition to all others to
make use thereof for ninety and nine years: May it therefore please
the Kings most Excellent Majesty, That it may be enacted, And Be it
Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice
and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in
this present Parliament Assembled, and by the Authority thereof, That
it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Edward Marquess of
Worcester, His Executors and Assigns, from time to time, and at all
times hereafter, during the said ninety and nine years, to have,
receive, take, and enjoy, to his and their own proper use and uses,
the Profit, Benefit, and Advantage which shall any ways arise,
happen, or accrue by means or reason of the aforesaid Engine and new
Invention. And be it also Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That
one full tenth part of the accruing Benefit thereof (without
deduction or abatement for or by reason of any Charges or Expences
whatsoever) shall be paid and answered, and accounted for by the said
Edward Marquess of Worcester, his Executors, Administrators, and
Assigns, for His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, into His
Majesties publick receipt of Exchequer yearly, and every year at the
Feasts of Saint Michael the Arch-angel and the Annunciation of the
Blessed Virgin Mary, during the said Term of Ninety nine years, the
first payment to be made at the Feast of Saint Michael the
Arch-angel, which shall be in the year of our Lord God, One thousand
six hundred sixty and three; And be it further Enacted by the
Authority aforesaid, that if any Person or Persons whatsoever within
his Majesties Kingdom of England & Dominion of Wales, and Town of
Berwick upon Tweed, and the Dominions and Territories thereunto
belonging, do, or shall at any time hereafter, during the said term,
Counterfeit, Imitate, put in practice, or erect the said
Water-commanding Engine (without the consent and License first had
and obtained in writing from the said Edward Marquess of Worcester,
or his Assignes) That it shall, and may be lawful to and for the said
Edward Marquess of Worcester, or his Assignes, with his, or their
Agents or Work-men by a Warrant from the Lord Chief Justice, or from
any two Justices of Peace within the respective County or Liberty,
where such search shall be made, and assisted by the Constable or
Constables neer adjacent, to enter into, or upon the said place or
places where the said Work or Engine shall be made or erected; And
upon discovery of any such Engine, to proceed against the said Person
or Persons by Action, Information or Indictment; and after Conviction
thereof in due course of Law in any Assizes, or publique Sessions of
the Peace, or any of the Courts at Westminster, or any other His
Majesties Courts of Record in any City, Burrough, or Town Corporate,
or in any Stanary Court, or Jurisdiction of Leadmines; Then such
Engines to be forfeited, and seized to and for the use of the said
Edward Marquess of Worcester, his Executors, Administrators and
Assignes respectively: And further, that the said Actor or Actors,
Contriver or Contrivers thereof, and every of them, shall lose, and
forfeit Five pounds of lawful Money of England an Hour for every
Hour, he or they shall be Convicted, by one or more credible
Witnesses upon Oath, to use the same, after such Conviction without
the consent and License of the said Edward Marquess of Worcester, or
his Assignes, first had and obtained in manner as aforesaid; the same
to be recovered in the name of the said Edward Marquess of Worcester,
his Executors, or Assignes, at the Common Law by any Action or
Actions to be grounded upon this Statute; The same Action and Actions
to be heard, and determined in any of his Majesties Courts of Record,
in which Suit no Essoign, Protection, or Wager of Law shall be
allowed; one third part whereof shall be to the Kings most Excellent
Majesty, one other third part to the Informer or Discoverer, and the
other third part to the said Marquess of Worcester, his Executors and
Assignes. Provided always, and it is hereby Declared, That this Act,
or any thing therein contained, shall not prejudice any other
Water-work or Engine now known and used, nor any Person or Persons,
who before the making of this present Act have obtained any Letters
Patents from his Majesty, for the sole making and using of any new
Engine for the carriage of Water; But that the said other Water-work,
and the said Letters Patents shall be and remain of the same force
and effect, as if this Act had never been had or made, any thing
herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding. Provided always,
that nothing in this Act contained shall be construed, or taken to
prejudice, or hinder any Person or Persons from making, or using any
Engine, Device or Invention, for ther raising and carriage of Water,
other then the Engine in this Act mentioned; And that a Model thereof
be delivered by the said Marquess, or his Assignes, to the Lord
Treasurer or Commissioners for the Treasury for the time being, at or
before the Nine and Twentieth day of September, One thousand six
hundred sixty three; And be by him or them then put into the
Exchequer, and kept there.
Copia vera.
_Jo. Brown_ Cleric.
Parliament.
* * * * *
In admirandam magis quàm imitandam, aut ullis Encomiis satis
prædicandam, Illustrissimi Domini Marchionis Vigorniæ Machinam
Hydraulicam, Elogium.
_Barbara Pyramidum sileat miracula Memphis,_
_Assiduus jactet nec Babylona labor._--HORAT.
_Siste viator, depone sarcinam, & dum reficis membræ,_
_Labore languida, pasce mentem novitatis avidam;_
_Perpende gyganteam hanc molé, æterni motus æmulam,_
_Naturæ & Artis compaginem, Cœli Solíque stuporem._
_Pondera ponderibus librata hîc Æthera scandunt,_
_Et redeunt proprias mox subitura vices._
_Mens prægnans agitata Deo, nunc præstat in Orbe,_
_Quæ nec stellifero sunt tribuenda Polo._
_Taceat Rhodus, facessat Ephesus, et quicquid fabulosa_
_Prædicat antiquitas; illic laudanda Artificis industria,_
_Hîc admiranda mentis sublimitas celebranda venit._
_Cui impares fuere tot seculis retroactis omnes Græci,_
_Et Romani, humano conatu, id præstitit nostra_
_Ætate unus_ Cambrobritannus, _Divino afflatu:_
Soli Deo Gloria.
_Martis & Imperii Palmam fert Roma perennem;_
_Artis & Ingenii Cambria culmen habet._
... pauci, quos æquus amavit
Jupiter, aut ardens evexit ad æthera virtus,
Hoc potuere....
_Jacobus Rollocus_,
Scoto-Belga-Britannus.
* * * * *
_A Panegyrick to the Right Honourable EDWARD, Lord Marquess of
WORCESTER, Upon his stupendious and never-sufficiently-commended
Water-work._
I know mean subjects need a skilful Pen
To stretch their worth on tenter-hooks, but when
A Theam falls out so pregnant, who can chuse
But strain his vulgar Wit to prove a Muse?
Come, fainting Pilgrim, lay here down thy Pack,
And, while thou rests thy wearied limbs, look back
Upon this Pageant, th’ Emblem of his mind,
Whose Art and skill hath this our Age refin’d.
Here little _David_ curbs the Gyant’s brood,
Small drops of Rain contend with _Noah’s_ Flood;
One weighs a thousand coming down apace,
Weighs but himself when he hath run his race.
The Heavens admire, the Centre stands amaz’d,
To see such Streams by so small Forces rais’d.
Great is the Work, but greater is the Fame
Of that great Peer who did invent the same.
What Force or Strength can do is in his reach,
His long Experience, Cost and Charges, teach;
What Greeks, nor Romans e’re could do, this day,
Our Noble Britain here hath found the way.
If Ages past had bred you, we had seen
Your Glories current run a bigger stream;
But Art and Envy meeting face to face,
Like _France_ and _Spain_, dispute who shall take place.
None but ignoble Minds love to detract
From th’ Honour due to such a noble Act:
On then, that after-ages may relate
Your Service done to Country, King and State.
And though that envious Spirits spit their gall,
Your noble Deeds are so well known to all,
As if their malice should take from your praise,
Your own deserts will crown your head with Bays.
_By your Lordships_
_most humble and faithful Servant_,
James Rollock.
* * * * *
APPENDIX D.
[Among the Family Papers in the possession of His Grace the Duke
of Beaufort is the following:--_Letter from WALTER TRAVERS, a
Roman Catholic Priest, to the Dowager Marchioness of Worcester._]
Jesus + Mīa, September 6, 1670.
NOBLE MADAM--
The Grace of the Holy-ghost bee with you.
The greate esteeme and honour wch I have euer had for your Ladysp
hath allwaise made mee prompt, and willing to serue you to the best
of my power, without the bias of selfe interest, as your selfe can
witnesse; And because I feare that at present, your Honour hath noe
one, that in the greate concernes, which you have in hand, will tell
you the truth, as it often happens to persons of greate quality: I
have thought it the part of my Priestly function and fidelity towards
yor Hor: (haveing first in my poore prayers, humbly commended it
to Alm: God) to represent unto you, that wch all your friends know
to bee true, as well as my selfe, and would bee willing that your
Ladysp should know it likewise.
Alm: God hath Madam put you into a happey, and florishing condition,
fitt and able to serue God, and to doe much good to your selfe and
others; and your Ladysp makes your selfe unhappey, by seeming not to
bee contented with your condition but troubling your spiritts with
many thoughts of attayning to greater dignityes and riches.
Madam all those that wish you well, are greeued to see your Ladysp to
bee allready soe much disturbed, and weakened in your iudgment and in
danger to loose the right use of your reason, if you doe not tymely
endeauor to preuent it, by ceasing to goe one with such high designes,
as you are vppon, which I declare to you, in the faith of a Priest to
bee true: The cause of your present distemper, and of the aforesayed
danger, is doubtlesse, that your thoughts and imagination are very
much fixed on the title of Plantaginet, and of disposing your selfe
for that greate dignity by getting of greate sums of money from the
King, to pay your deceased Lords debts, and enriching your selfe by the
great Mashine, and the like. Now Madam how vnproper such undertakeings
are for your L. and how vnpossible for you to effect them, or any one
of them, all your friends can tell you if the please to discover the
trueth to you.
The ill effects that flow from hence are many: as the danger of
looseing your health and iudgment by such violent application of your
fancies in such high designes and ambitious desires; the probability
of offending Alm. God and preiudising your owne soule thereby: the
advantage you may thereby give to those who desire to make a pray of
your fortune, and to rayse themselues by ruening you: the spending
greate sums of money in rich and sumptuous things, whch are not
suteable to the gravity of your Ladysp and present condition of
Widdow-hoode and mourning for your deceased Lord.
Although it bee certine, that it is a greate temptation which you are
now vnder, and very dangerous and hurtfull both to your temporall
and eternall happynesse; yett I confisse that the Divel, to make his
suggestion the more preualent, doth make vse of some motives that seeme
plausible, as of paying your Lords debs, of founding monasteryes, and
the like, and that your Ladysp hath the Kings favour to carry one your
designes. But Madam it is certine that the King is offended with your
comeing to the Court, and much more with your pretention to the title
of Plantaginet; and it is dangerous to provoke him any farther: And for
paying of debts, and founding of Monasteryes, wee all know that your L.
can neuer bee in a better condition to doe it, then now you are; and as
you are not bound to doe such things, soe they are not expected from
you; but wee all applaud your pious inclinations herein, of wch you
will not loose the merit with Alm: God but our apprehensions are, least
you should by your Ladysps inordinate designes, bring your selfe
into such a condition, as not to bee able to helpe your friends nor
your selfe.
Bee pleased Madam now to give mee leave to suggest some waie how the
approching dangers may bee prevented, by changing the object of your
affections, and insteede of temporall, to seeke after eternall riches,
and honors, which your age doth assure you are not far off; for wch
you may dispose yourselfe, before death comes, by retiring into the
countrey for some tyme, from the distractions of the Court, where
you may have the advice and directions of some learned Priest, in
whose vertue you may wholey confide, and bee guided by him, for your
internall quiet and security. Many places may soone be found out, that
are fitt for that purpose: At Hammersmith Mrs. Bedingfield a very
vertuous and discreete person, and of your Ladysps acquaintance,
hath lately taken a faire house and garden, & hath but a small family.
In some such place your Hor might likewise haue the aduice of some
well experienced Doctor, for the health of your person, and the
benefitt of good ayre and of quietness, would much conduce to your
health: And soe by Alm. Gods blessing, you may recover from that most
pernicious distemper of bodey and mind, vnto wch euery one seese you
to bee very neere approaching, and may live many yeares with your owne
fortune and dignity in greate honour, and happynesse and be the author
of many good workes of piety and Charity to the glorey of God and
eternall saluation of your owne soule. Thus dear Madam I have ventured
to declare a greate trueth to you, wch was before a secrett only to
your selfe; I know that I run the hazard of incurring your displeasure,
if your Ladysp should not reade the candor of my intentions, wch
in my Letter I intend towards you: but my assurance of haveing herein
performed a duty wch I owe to my God, and the hope I have that you
will take it well as I intend it, have encouraged mee to doe it, and to
subscribe myselfe
Honored Madam
Your humb. Ser. in C. J.
WALT. TRAVERS.
[_On the back of this letter is the address:_]
For ye Right Honble,
the Lady markes of wossester,
at her howes in Link[olns]
ins fields.
* * * * *
APPENDIX E.
COLONEL CHRISTOPHER COPLEY.
Sufficient has been said respecting Copley in the “Life, Times,
&c.,” pages 214, 215, to give interest to any matter that can afford
information respecting him.
[Illustration: Christopher Copley (autograph)]
We here supply his autograph, from MSS. in the British Museum, which
may be useful to collectors; and have also to offer the account he
gives of himself and his affairs during the Commonwealth, derived from
Cole’s MSS. also in the British Museum, No. 5832, volume 31, page 209,
as follows:--
I. (The following Case, wrote on half a sheet of paper, and was
the first draught as seems to me, by the alterations and
scratchings out of several words, and additions over them. I know
not how I came by it.)
_Col. Christopher Copley his Case._
Humbly sheweth,
That the said Colonel Copley did, in the year 1642, at his own charge
raise a troop, and in 1644, a regiment of Horse, and supplied the
Parliament with Bar-iron and Bullets, which with other things due
amounted to the value of £1,843, whereof £1,500 was granted unto him as
by an order of the 19th of July 1656, may at large appear; but is still
unpaid.
That during the greatest part of the years 1644, and 1645, he had the
command and care of several regiments of Horse, and by the blessing
of God upon his conduct and resolution, several pieces of service
were done, and victories obtained, whereby diverse of the counties of
England were settled in peace, to the great advantage of the nation.
That the Committees of all ridings of the county of York did, in
approbation of his service and fidelity, elect him to be Colonel of the
West-riding Regiment of Horse in 1645; and the Parliament, by their
letter, under the hand of the Rt honble. Mr. Speaker, did also
assure him, that they would be ready upon all occasions to testify
their sense of his service; and did after, in 1647, appoint him to be
one of the nine, who by their vote, were to command the nine regiments
of Horse then only to be continued for the defence of this nation.
That by reason of the premisses the Earl of Newcastle caused his wife
and children to be turned out of doors, and his house, lands, goods,
and stock at four Iron Works to be taken from him, to the value of
£2,000; for which he never had any recompense.
That Lieutt.-Genl. Cromwell finding the said Colonel Copley would
not become subservient to his ambitious ends (which then were under the
curtain, but since discovered) caused him to be undeservedly questioned
upon articles (which before he had waived), and after he had fully
cleared himself, did, notwithstanding his said service, contributions
and sufferings, cause him to be put out of the Catalogue presented to
be continued in 1647; whereby his regiment was taken from him, and
given to Colonel Lambert, contrary to the said vote; the Parliament, as
is conceived, not then remembering it, nor their engagement by their
letter afore-mentioned.
That though he thus lost his command, yet he did not resist (as others
of late) but acquiesced in the pleasure of the house, and submitted
shortly after to a Commonwealth Government set up; yet hath been kept
out of all employment, both civil and military ever since; to his
reproach and the ruin of his estate, contrary to the declaration of the
20th January 1643, while he hath seen many others (who never at all, or
not considerably, either served or contributed to, or suffered for the
Parliament) from mean conditions, preferred to, and continued in great
commands and employments by their compliances with the many changes of
this evil age, and the lusts of ambitious men, to the hazard of the
ruin of this Commonwealth.
That he did disapprove of the usurpations of the Protectoral, and the
longings after the regal power; but when the Parliament was invited to
return to the discharge of their trust, and were about the restitution
of the commands to such, as by the usurpations were dispossessed, he
tendered his service. And after the late interruption, he declared his
readiness to raise a regiment, and to run the hazard of his life and
fortune, to reduce the army to the Parliament’s obedience; and received
a Commission to that end.
His humble request, therefore, is, that your Honours will be
pleased upon due consideration of the premisses to confer upon
him his own regiment of Horse, late under the command of the said
Colonel Lambert, and now about 12 years withheld from him,
according to the justice of his case above-mentioned, or some
other command or civil employment in England or Ireland, suitable
to his former, and to the merit of his fidelity and affections to
the Parliament, expressed in the premisses.
This is a true copy of the last:
That since the good Providence hath put the power into your hand, your
Excy. will be pleased upon due consideration of the Premisses,
to confer upon him a command in England or Ireland, suitable to
his former, and to the merit of his fidelity and affections to the
Parliament expressed in the Premisses.
II. In the 4th Volume of the Journals of the House of Commons for 1644
to 1646, on the 20th October, 1645, is reported--“A letter from * *
18th October, 1645-- * * relating the great success of the Parliament’s
forces (about 1,200), under the command of Colonel Copley, near
Ferrybriggs, over near 2,000 of the enemy, under the command of Digby.”
And in the 5th Volume, 1646 to 1648, on the 18th May, 1647, was
read--“A Certificate from the Earl of Manchester, of the 20th February,
1646, concerning iron belonging to Mr. Copley and his Partners, made
use of by the forces under his command.”
On referring to the Journals of the House of Lords, we find that on
the 8th of July, 1648, there was a message from the House of Commons,
and an order desiring their Lordships’ concurrence; being among other
matters--“An Ordinance for £4,324. 9_s._--to Colonel Christopher
Copley,” which was entered and agreed to. (See Vol. X., 1647 to 1648,
pages 369 and 371.)
* * * * *
APPENDIX F.
_Copy of Cromwell’s_ WARRANT, _and_ INVENTORY _of eight copies of
Papers relating to the Marquis of Worcester, in the possession of_
BENNET WOODCROFT, _Esq._ _F.R.S._
1655. A WARRANT to pay Three pounds a week to Edward Earl
of Worcester, for his better maintenance, &c. Given by the Lord
Protector, as follows:--[See page 213.]
A WARRANT _to pay Three pounds a week to Ye Earl of Worcester_.
LORD PROTECTOR, &c. To the Comrs of our Treasury Greetinge our
will and pleasure is and wee doe hereby require and comand you
or any Two or more of you That out of such our Treasure as is
or shalbe remayninge in the reciept of our Excheqr you pay or
cause to bee paid vnto Edward Earle of Worcester or his
Assignes thee weekly allowance of Three pounds (heretofore
charged on the Treāry att Goldsmiths Hall) for his better
maintenance the said weekly allowance to bee continued vntil
wee shall give other order to the contrary And our further will
and pleasure is that you also pay or cause to bee paid
forthwith vnto the said Earle or his Assignes out of our
Treasure remayninge in or said reciepts the arreares of the
said allowance of Three pounds by the weeke from the eight day
of January last past vntill which dayes the Treārs of
Goldsmiths hall have certified the same to have been satisfied
out of the Treāry there And theis presents or the inrollemt
thereof shalbe a sufficient Warrant and discharge aswell to you
the said Comrs of our Treāry as to all others our Officers and
Ministers of the Receipt of or Excheq. to whome it doth or
shall any wayes apperteine for paymt of the said weekly
Allowance and the arreares thereof as aforesaid Witnes the Lord
Protector the six and twentith of June.
[1655 Pat. Roll, part 4, No. 30.]
1660. A Pardon granted to Edward Marquesse of Worcester of all such
offences, &c. &c. as are expressed in the form of a pardon
prepared for that purpose and remaining with His Majesty’s
Attorney General. Dated August, 1660.
1664–5. Grant to Edward Marquesse and Earle of Worcester of all
sums of money, jewels, goods, and other matters and things of
value concealed or accounted for and arising out of the real
and personal estate of the said Edward Earl and Marquesse of
Worcester and of his Father Henry late Marquiss of Worcester or
belonging to the same and which by the laws of the kingdom are
forfeited and belong to the Crown.
1664–5. Grant and release to Edward Marquis of Worcester of the tenth
part of the benefits accruing from his Water-commanding engine
settled upon the Crown, such Grant or release being in
consideration of the surrender of the Warrant of Charles I.
dated at Oxford, 5th January, 1644, made unto said Edward
Marquis of Worcester by the name of Lord Herbert for the grant
of lands to the value of £40,000, &c. &c.
1670–71. Letters Patent to Henry Marquis of Worcester, remitting
payment of certain sums due to the Crown at the time of the
death of his Father Edward Marquis of Worcester.
1673. Letters Patent relating to constitution of Peverill Court and
appointing Henry Marquis of Worcester and Charles Lord Herbert
and Arthur Lord Somerset (sons of the Marquis) Chief Seneschals
and Simon Degge Seneschal of said Court.
1675–6. Letters Patent to Henry Marquis of Worcester, granting to him
the Manor of Wondey in the County of Monmouth.
1675–6. Letters Patent to Henry Marquis of Worcester conceding the
advowson &c. of the Rectory of Sapworth or Sopworth in
Wiltshire in exchange for that of Blendworth in the County of
Southampton.
1678. Commission of Lunacy to inquire whether Margaret Dowager
Marchioness of Worcester is a Lunatic, &c.
* * * * *
APPENDIX G.
VAUXHALL WORKS, AND CASPAR KALTOFF.
I.
The Honourable Robert Boyle, corresponding with Samuel Hartlib, the
latter, under date “Duke’s Place, July 24th, 1649,” writes--“As for
Vauxhall, there is a proviso put into the Act, that it shall not be
sold.”
And in another letter, dated “May 8th, 1654,” Hartlib says--“The Earl
of Worcester is buying Vaux-hall from Mr. Trenchard, to bestow the use
of that house upon Gaspar Calehof and his son, as long as they shall
live.” [Works, fol. 1744, Vol. V., pp. 257 and 264.]
II.
The annexed particulars of the premises at Vauxhall, where the Marquis
of Worcester erected one of his Water-commanding Engines, and of
Kalthoff and his family, are derived from the Books of the Duchy of
Cornwall Office.
1.--_Duchy of Cornwall Office._
From Index to Reports--1660–1684. A to P. 1. Kennington* (Surry).
_Peter Jacobson._
*Kennington (Foxhall House) 26th Oct., 1666. His Majesty’s Warrant
directed to Lord Treasurer Southampton and Lord Ashley, to grant
Mr. Jacobson a Lease for his life at a moderate rent, he having
expended the sum of £700. on the Premises in making them convenient for
the Trade of a Sugar Baker.--
Fo. 218.
Surveyor General’s Constat [or Direction] on the Warrant of Lord
Ashley, Chancellor of Exchequer, enters minutely into every particular
of the premises, showing in what manner the whole has been occupied,
and reports the value per annum, and the value for a fine, &c.
Fo. 219.
[*.* Jacobson married Kaltoff’s daughter.]
2.--_Martha Calthoff._
The Widow of Gaspar Calthoff (a native of Holland, who had settled in
this House by his Attorney, and employed in making Guns and divers
Engines and works for the King’s service). Her Petition and case at
large. Here Sir Charles Harbard also enters into a very minute detail
of the premises in question.
Fo. 326.
3.--_Duchy of Cornwall Office._
Report H. 1. 1665–1668.
(Signed) CHARLES R.
Vauxhall, Peter Jacobson.
[By his Petition--has been at a Charge of £700. in repairing and
building a part of Vauxhall, which was waste, and made the same
convenient for a Sugar Baker, the said J.’s profession--in con. of his
charges--and losses by the late fire at London--desires some certainty
of the Premises.--Our pleasure to grant a Lease to P. J. of that part
of Vauxhall which he hath repaired and built for his trade of a Sugar
Baker--for the term of his life--at some moderate Rental. Whitehall,
26th Oct. 1666. 18th year of reign.]
4.--_Duchy of Cornwall Office._
Report H. 1. 1665–68.
[Report of the Surveyors General C. Harbard and Hugh May, dated 25th
and 27th April, 1668, respecting Foxhall House, parcel of the Manor of
Kennington and Duchy of Cornwall.]
*.* This is already quoted in the “Life, Times, &c.,” page 239.
5.--_Duchy of Cornwall Office._
Particulars of a Lease in the form of Letters Patent.
22nd March, 1667–68. Letters Patent whereby the King demised unto Peter
Jacobson--
All that part of our Mansion House called Vauxhall or Ffoxhall, part
of the Manor of Kennington, in the County of Surrey, extending in
length next the River Thames 186 feet, or thereabout, and in width 22
feet, or thereabout; and all that other part of the same Mansion
House adjoining the premises, and from thence extending towards the
S.E. 47 feet, and in width N.W. 33½; feet, or thereabout, and in
other parts 24¼ feet, or thereabout; together with all that area or
place adjoining and fenced in, extending in length 141½ feet, or
thereabout, and in width to the W. end 40 feet, and to the S. end 47
feet, or thereabout, together with free ingress and egress in and
through the steps and doors existing at the N. end of the aforesaid
house, and through and over the area there, called the Court-yard,
appertaining to the aforesaid House, and all that Stable lately built
upon part of the said place or area last mentioned, consisting in
length 28½ feet, or thereabout, and in width 17 feet, or thereabout;
also that shed 26 by 10 feet--premises in or near the Parish of
Lambeth, and now in the tenure or occupation of Peter Jacobson * *.
This Lease granted in consideration of the expense incurred in
repairing and amending the buildings for and during his natural life,
at a Rental of only £5.
6.--_Duchy of Cornwall Office._
Mem. from various Drafts.
12th January, 1659–60.--Ch. II.
Indenture of Lease between the King’s Majesty and Henry Lord Moore.
22nd March, 1667–8.--19th Ch. II.
Letters Patent--The King unto Peter Jacobson. To hold during the
natural life of P. J. Rent £5.
1st Aug. 1672.--24th Ch. II.
Letters Patent whereby the King from grace and favour towards
Jasper Calthoff and Martha Calthoff lately deceased, and their
children, devised unto Herbert Price, Knight and Baronet, James
Read, Esq., and John Renny, Gentleman, at the nomination and
appointment of Claude Denis and Catherine his wife, one of the
daughters of the said Jasper Calthoff and Martha his wife. Jasper
Calthoff and Isabel Calthoff, others of the sons and daughters of
the said Jasper and Martha Calthoff.
*.* Then there would be also Peter Jacobson, the son-in-law, who
married a daughter.
7. The following particulars are derived from the Records of the State
Paper Office:--
_State Papers._ Vol. 142, No. 134.
Martha Kalthof and Peter Jacobson’s Petition.
To the King’s most excellent Majesty.
The Humble Petition of Martha, widow of Caspar Kalthof, and
Peter Jacobson, her son-in-law.
Showeth,
That the said Martha is the distressed widow of the said Caspar, your
Majesty’s and your Royal father’s old servant. That he was planted
by your Majesty’s most gracious father in Vauxhall, and had building
therein erected for the exercise of his art and feat as Ingineur
[engineer].
That your Majesty upon your happy Restoration resettled him in the said
house, after he had been long turned out of doors by the great Traitor
and Usurper.
That in this ejection her husband was plundered and bereaved of an
estate near £3,000. sterling, and left with 4 children, some whereof
were infants.
That being reinstated by your Majesty as aforesaid, he was naked and
without means to prefer his daughter grown up, but upon the trust
of your Majesty’s grace, did dispose of one of his daughters to the
Petitioner, Peter Jacobson, but without any other portion than the firm
hopes of your Majesty’s continued grace and Royal goodness.
That in consideration the Petitioner, Peter Jacobson, did bestow in
making the building of that house for his calling of sugar-baking near
the sum of £700. sterling.
That now, on the death of his said father-in-law, he is left at your
Majesty’s mercy for his continuance in this house to the Petitioner
Martha’s subsistence and her other two daughters preferment, [which]
depends wholly upon the said Peter Jacobson his enjoyment of the said
house for perfecting his work, and refunding his said great expences.
And although your Majesty hath been graciously pleased to design
the son of the said Caspar to succeed this office and service, yet
forasmuch as he is held up by the Emperor of Russia, the Petitioners
are both under great fears without your Majesty’s special grace and
clemency.
Their most humble Petition therefore and only hope is that your
Majesty will be graciously pleased in contemplation of both their
desolate otherwise, and truly sad condition, to grant them such
terms of years in the said house, as may in some measure repair
the estate of the said widow to provide of the maintenance of
herself and preferment of her two orphan daughters, and enable
the Petitioner Peter, her son-in-law, by holding the said
Sugar-house some certain term of years to have recompense of his
said expense of £700. bestowed upon your Majesty’s grounds, which
he will leave after in good repair to the improvement of your
Majesty’s interest.
And your Petitioners as in duty bound shall ever with theirs
pray, &c.
[See Col. State Papers, Dom. Series, 1665–66, edited by Mrs. M. A. E.
Green. 8vo. 1864. p. 153, No. 134.]
* * * * *
[Vol. 102, No. 13. Sept. 5. Whitehall. Warrant from Secretary Bennet.
(Ent. Book 16, p. 220.)]
It is his Majesty’s pleasure that Sir Herbert Price, Sir Paul Neal, and
Sir Robert Murray, being attended by Mr. Gervase Price, his Majesty’s
Serjeant Trumpeter, do visit Foxhall, and there enquire by whom the
several rooms in it are possessed, and particularly what belongs to the
Marquis of Worcester, what to Gaspar Collthoffe, late deceased, and
what their respective interests in the Engines, Tools, &c. remaining in
that place are, hearing on the one part the Lord John Somerset; and on
the other the widow of the said Colthoff, and his son-in-law, and any
persons relating to them, of all which the said persons above mentioned
are to give an account to his Majesty in writing. Whitehall, September
5, 1664.
HENRY BENNET.
[See Cal. State Papers, Dom. Series, 1664–65. Edited by Mrs. M. A. E.
Green. 8vo. 1863. p. 2. No. 13.]
* * * * *
APPENDIX H.
APOCRYPHAL PASSAGES.
_Statements that have at various times been published as matters of
fact relating to the personal history of the Marquis of Worcester._
1. _The Pot-lid Story._--No account of the Marquis’s great discovery
has hitherto been considered complete without relating what is
usually offered as a traditional anecdote of its origin. The latest
publication, in a popular form, occurs in “A History of Wonderful
Inventions,” where its interest is enhanced by a neatly executed
engraving. It relates that, at the conclusion of the Civil War, the
Marquis “hastened over to France, where, after spending some time at
the court of the exiled royal family of England, he returned to this
country as their secret agent, but being detected, was confined a
prisoner in the Tower.” It is said that during this imprisonment,
“while he was engaged one day in cooking his own dinner, he observed
the lid of the pot was continually being forced upwards by the vapour
of the boiling water contained in the vessel. Being a man of
thoughtful disposition, and having, moreover, a taste for scientific
investigation, he began to reflect on the circumstance, when it
occurred to him that the same power which was capable of raising the
iron cover of the pot might be applied to a variety of useful
purposes; and on obtaining his liberty, he set to work to produce a
practical exposition of his ideas on the subject in the shape of an
acting machine, which he described in his work”--the “Century.”
Every writer varies this story in its details. Here the compiler,
drawing on his imagination, certifies to the Marquis being his own
cook, providing his own dinner, and verifies the pot-lid being of iron.
Disraeli and others vaguely state it to have been his meal that was
being prepared in his presence, saying nothing whether the pot was
brass, copper, or iron. The Tower must have had a large supply of these
cooking utensils to meet the wants of its prisoners!
The story reminds one of that of the Three Black Crows related by
Addison in _The Spectator_, for like it this “pot-lid” story may after
all have originated in some lecture or conversation, in which the
speaker indulged his fancy by venturing the statement as what might
appear to him a feasible suggestion, and one calculated to render
the matter interesting and impressive. Had it happened at all it
must have occurred from 1652 to 1654; but the “pot-lid” story, in
another form, was current in 1597, when Lord Bacon, in his Essays,
alluding to the origin of Inventions, remarks:--“It should seem, that
hitherto men are rather beholding to a wild goat for surgerie, or to a
nightingale for music, or to the ibis for some part of physic, _or to
the_ POT-LID that _flew open_ for artillery, or generally to
chance, or anything else, than to logic for the invention of Arts and
Sciences.” The third edition of these Essays was published at Oxford
in 1633, and from so popular a source it was natural for the vulgar to
take the suggestive idea of the “pot-lid” to account for the origin
of the steam engine, rather than to assign the birth of that gigantic
production to a natural process of inductive reasoning.
2. _Unfounded Charge of Forgery._--Thomas Carte, son of the Rev. Samuel
Carte, born in Warwickshire, was baptized there by immersion, 23rd of
April, 1686. In 1722, being accused of high treason, he fled to France,
but returning in 1728–30, he, in 1735, published the third volume of
his “Life of the Duke of Ormonde.” Among other matters, Nichols, in
his “Literary Anecdotes,” Vol. IX., 1815, observes: “In an unpublished
letter to Dr. Z. Grey, dated May 14, 1736, he says--‘I suppose you have
read that volume [the 3rd], and seen there the letters relating to the
Earl of Glamorgan, who certainly forged every commission he pretended
to from the King.[D] I give you his character in the History very
justly, but yet too tenderly drawn, because I am naturally unwilling
to lay a load on any man’s memory, except I am absolutely forced to
it. I intimate (so strongly that nobody of common sense can mistake
the thing) that he forged letters and commissions without number;
and I could have produced the compiler of the Nuncio’s memoirs in
evidence (who had all those commissions before his eyes, and all the
papers signed by Glamorgan to the Nuncio), to prove the commissions
and letters he pretended to from King Charles absolutely forged; for
he says he was perfectly acquainted with Glamorgan’s secretary, and
knew his handwriting as well as his own; and all those commissions and
letters were wrote in the hand of an Irish priest, who was Glamorgan’s
secretary.’”
After further remarks to the same effect, he concludes, “In fine, I
have not the least doubt but that Glamorgan forged every pretended
power or commission he had; and all of them so fully express his
vanity, and are so adapted to his present views (which in most cases
could not arise till after he was in Ireland), that they could
have no other author but himself. I must observe to you that this
letter, being directed to the Nuncio, is the only original of the
King’s writing among his papers (for Glamorgan only gave him copies
translated of the others); and whatever commission, or other power,
instructions, or letters, Glamorgan pretended to the Nuncio to have
from the King, must be in a hand agreeable to that which the Nuncio had
as an original.”
[72][72*]
The Editor properly notes here: “If Glamorgan only gave copies
translated of the other commissions, it is no great wonder that they
should be written in his secretary’s hand.”
In the same work is the following inquiry from a correspondent:
“I never met with anybody but Mr. Thomas Carte who talked of
_Impartiality_ and _Mr. Thomas Carte_ in the same breath. But, waiving
that question, I cannot help asking--If the Irish Rebellion, and all
the mischiefs of that period, are to be attributed to commissions and
powers forged by the _soi-disant_ Earl of Glamorgan, what pretence is
there for laying all the load and odium thereof upon the Parliament?”
A thin quarto volume of MSS., in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, entitled
“Notes on Carte’s History,” contains a note from Mr. Birch, dated 2nd
February, 1742–3, to Rev. Mr. Thomas Carte; also, “The full answer to
the Bystander, compared with the History of the Life of James Duke of
Ormonde, written by the same author, September, 1742;” likewise several
letters from Rev. J. Boswell, Taunton; and lastly, the following MS.
letter:--
“Sir,--I am very much concerned to find by your last letter that you
have received such a message from Mrs. Carte. I persuade myself she
would think me entitled to the greatest civility from her, if she was
apprised of the friendship which subsisted between me and her late
husband. I took no small pains for several years to serve poor Mr.
Carte, and had the satisfaction of such a valuable correspondence with
him as entitled him to every good office that I could do him. In 1748 I
laid before him _The Case of the Royal Martyr considered with candour_,
and he was so good as to approve of it, and earnestly pressed me to
print it. In the course of our correspondence I mentioned some
difficulties which I had met with in that work, and particularly in
relation to some facts which had been misrepresented in a book entitled
_An Enquiry into the share which King Charles_, &c. Mr. Carte, in a
series of letters which he favoured me with on that subject, gave me
many valuable Notices, which were of great use to me in clearing up
those difficulties, and which I have occasionally availed myself of in
many parts of my work. It is likely Mrs. Carte may have found copies of
those letters, some of which were very long. But as Mr. Carte first
sent them to me professedly with design that I should make what use of
them I thought proper, I leave Mrs. Carte to consider, whether her
finding such copies of letters in her late husband’s own handwriting
will give her a claim to any part of my work which you have printed. If
Mrs. Carte shall choose to write to me on this affair, I shall be glad
to receive a letter from her directed under cover to you.
I am, yours &c.,
The Author of _The Case of the Royal Martyr, &_.”
July 25th, 1754.
(It has no direction, and the writing is evidently _not_ that of the
Rev. J. Boswell, of Taunton.)
Dr. Birch was at variance with Mr. Carte on historical points relating
to Charles the First and the Earl of Glamorgan; but in his “Inquiry,”
1756, he never touches on the subject of this pretended forgery of
commissions. The charge is every way discreditable to Carte, being a
mere theory of his own to give colour to the King’s representations
made in public, although well known to have had no effect to alienate
old friendship between the King and the Earl.
3. _Fanshawe’s story of £8,000. raised in Ireland._ Lady Fanshawe’s
Memoirs, 1665, written by herself, were printed in London, 1829. In an
introductory memoir we are informed:--
“On receiving orders from his Majesty [Charles II.] to deliver the
seals to Lord Inchiquin, Mr. Fanshawe proceeded on his mission, and
embarked with his wife at Galway, in February, 1650, on board a Dutch
ship for Malaga. Their entry into Galway, (which had been devastated
by the plague), is deserving of attention, and an anecdote, which is
related of the conduct of the Marquis of Worcester to the merchants
of that town, if true, reflects equal disgrace on the cause which he
espoused and on his memory.”
Writing in Ireland, about 1650, as appears from the context, Lady
Fanshawe says:--“Our house was very clean, only one maid in it besides
the master; we had a very good supper provided and being very weary
went early to bed. The owner of this house entertained us with the
story of the last Marquis of Worcester, who had been there sometime the
year before: he had of his own and other friends’ jewels to the value
of £8,000, which some merchants had lent upon them. My Lord appointed
a day for receiving the money upon them and delivering the jewels;
being met, he shows them all to these persons, then seals them up in a
box, and delivered them to one of these merchants, by consent of the
rest, to be kept for one year, and upon the payment of the £8,000 by my
Lord Marquis to be delivered him.
“After my Lord had received the money, he was entertained at all these
persons’ houses, and nobly feasted with them near a month: he went
from thence to France. When the year was expired, they, by letters
into France, pressed the payment of this borrowed money several times,
alleging they had great necessity of their money to drive their trade
with, to which my Lord Marquis made no answer, which did at last so
exasperate these men, that they broke open the seals, and opening the
box found nothing but rags and stones for their £8,000, at which they
were highly enraged, and in this case I left them.”
The least acquaintance with the character of the Marquis must satisfy
any one of the absurdity of this silly story, fastened on a man of
stainless honour, by an obscure lodging-house keeper. The man who
related it could never have imagined that Lady Fanshawe would place on
record the story he was relating for her amusement, as an historical
fact, or he might have shown more discretion than her Ladyship, by
affording some authority for a statement of so scandalous a character.
4. _Pretended interview between the Marquis of Worcester and De Caus
in the Bicêtre, Paris._--This fiction was long supported by a forged
letter, pretended to have been written in February, 1641, by Marion
Delorme, addressed to M. de Cinq-Mars. An exposure of this fable is due
to M. Figuier, in his “Principales Découvertes Scientifiques Modernes,”
post octavo, 4 volumes, 1862. After quoting the fabricated document,
he says:--“Cette pièce, fabriquée par un mystificateur hardi, eut
un succès prodigieux, et l’on ne manqua pas de dire que le marquis
de Worcester, à qui ses compatriotes attribuent la découverte de la
machine à vapeur, en avait puisé l’idée dans sa conversation avec le
fou de Bicêtre. On pouvait cependant élever contre l’authenticité de
cet écrit quelques objections qui ne manquent pas de solidité. On
pouvait faire remarquer, entre autres choses, que Salomon de Caus, mort
en 1630, aurait pu difficilement être enfermé en 1641 dans un hôpital
de fous; que Bicêtre était alors une commanderie de Saint-Louis, où
l’on donnait asile à d’anciens militaires, et non un hôpital;--que
Salomon de Caus n’avait jamais pensé à construire une machine utilisant
les effets méchaniques de la vapeur;--enfin qu’il n’avait jamais reçu
que de bons offices de la part de Richelieu puisque dans la dédicase
de son livre, _La practique et démonstration des horloges_ il exprime
sa reconnaissance pour les bontés du cardinal. Mais le public n’y
regarde pas de si près, et bien de gens ne renoncent pas sans douleur
à la bonne fortune historique d’un homme de génie mourant à l’hôpital.
Un sujet si bien trouvé revenait de droit aux ouvres de l’imagination
et de l’art. On a vu, à l’une des expositions du Louvre, un tableau
de l’un de nos peintres, M. Lecurieux, dans lequel Salomon de Caus,
enfermé à Bicêtre, est représenté les yeux caves et la barbe hérissée,
tendant les mains, à travers les barreux de sa prison, au couple
brillant de Marion Delorme et du marquis. La lithographie et la gravure
ont consacré à l’envi ce préjugé historique, le théâtre[E] et de roman
l’ont exploité, de telle sorte que l’architecte normand tient aujourd’
hui sa place à côté de Galilée et de Christophe Colomb sur la liste des
hommes de génie persécutés et méconnus. Jusques à quand cette légende
de fabrication moderne usurpera-t-elle le titre de fait historique?”
[Pages 32, 33.]
5. _A Scotch view of the “Century.”_ In _Blackwood’s Magazine_, Vol.
6, 1820, p. 655, a correspondent, under the signature of J. C., in an
article dated Manchester, February 8, 1820, “On Sir Thomas Urquhart’s
Jewell,” declares:--“I have good reason [?] to believe, Sir Thomas
was the real author of that singular production, ‘A century of names
and scantlings of inventions,’ the credit or discredit of which was
dishonestly [?] assumed by the Marquis of Worcester.”
Mr. Hugh Miller, in his “Scenes and Legends of the North of Scotland,”
12mo. Edin. 1835, has enlarged on this speculative view with amusing
fervour. He says:--“If intrinsic evidence be allowed to weigh anything,
either this little tract [the “Century”] was written by Sir Thomas;
or, what is much less probable, the world, nay, the same age and
island, have produced two Sir Thomases. Some little weight, too, may
be attached to the fact, that many of his manuscripts were lost in the
city of Worcester, near which place, _judging from the Title_, it is
probable the Marquis resided [!]; and that the “Century of Names” was
not published until 1663, two years after death had disarmed poor Sir
Thomas of his sword and his pen, and rendered him insensible to both
his country’s honour and his own. _If in reality the author of this
piece, he must be regarded, it is said, as the prime inventor of the
steam engine._”
* * * * *
APPENDIX I.
PETITION.
[At page 284 of the “Life” is a copy of an undated letter, which may
have been one addressed to the Duke of Albemarle. The Marquis speaks of
the neglect of two petitions, which may be the one given at page 282,
and the present petition, to the matter of both of which the annexed
letter from the Duke of Albemarle may refer. It would thus appear that
his petitions lay neglected for two months.]
_State Papers._
Vol. 152, No. 82. Petition of the Marquis of Worcester.
To the King’s most excellent Majesty,
The Petition of Edward Earl and Marquis of Worcester.
That the Petitioner having with great loyalty expended and lost his
whole fortune (being very considerable) for the interest of the Crown,
and public services whereby he is reduced to that deplorable condition
through his debts and wants, that he is not capable to eat bread of
his own, or allow himself the freedom of the streets, being deprived
hereof through the clamour of his creditors, whose moneys were really
borrowed for the use, and on the desire of your Majesty’s royal father
of blessed memory, your sacred Majesty [sic] and for advancing public
services to the general good of the kingdom and security of your Royal
person and dignity, of which the Petitioner hath paid above £35,000
since your Majesty’s happy restoration, besides many former sums lent
and expended, for which it is humbly presumed your sacred Majesty (when
rightly informed) will have particular regard to release and to pay
such great acts of loyalty as the Petitioner can make appear, as well
for justice as an encouragement for all loyal subjects hereafter to
expose themselves and fortunes at any rate for your Royal interest, as
the Petitioner hath without precedent, truly and really done in many
eminent particular services, too tedious to trouble your Majesty with,
being more fit to be heard and prepared by some of your Majesty’s most
honourable privy Council, who are the most proper advisers in such
cases, whose report and advice in this matter to your Majesty may prove
a redemption to the Petitioner, a royal exoneration to your Majesty,
and a great encouragement to all good subjects for the future, to
expose themselves as the Petitioner hath done, for your Majesty’s less
trouble and better understanding of the premisses, and what shall be
made appear concerning the same.
The Petitioner’s most humble request is, that your Majesty will
be graciously pleased to recommend and refer the Petitioner to be
fully heard touching his services, loans, disbursements, losses,
and sufferings to the Lord High Chancellor of England, and the
Lord Privy Seal, the Duke of Albemarle, the Marquis of
Dorchester, the Earl of Anglesey, the Earl of Loutherdale; the
Lord Holles, the Lord Ashley, Lord Arlington and Mr. Secretary
Morrice, or to such of them, or other, as your Majesty shall
think fit. And that your Majesty will be pleased to order the
said Lords to refer to reports to your Majesty with all
convenient speed the Petitioner’s whole case, as they shall find
it, with their opinions to your Majesty for such just and speedy
satisfaction for the relief of the Petitioner, and encouragement
for his long endeavouring for the public good, as shall be
thought fit, whereby he may be enabled to stop the mouths of his
numerous and clamorous creditors, and live himself without
disgrace to nobility, or being further necessitated to importune
your Majesty. And that, until the Petitioner’s case can be
reported, and fitted for your Majesty’s royal pleasure, your
Majesty will be pleased to order the Petitioner, some small sum
out of the privy purse for the present support of his wife and
family who exceedingly want the same.
And your Petitioner will ever pray, &c. &c.
[See Cal. State Papers, Dom. Series, 1665–66. Edited by Mrs. M. A. E.
Green, 8vo. 1864. P. 330, No. 82.]
_State Papers_.
Vol. 144, No. 27. Duke of Albemarle to Lord Arlington.
My Lord,--At the request of my Lord Marquis of Worcester I make bold to
write to your Lordship in his behalf, you know his Lordship’s business
so well that I shall not need to state it to you. I desire your
Lordship’s assistance to him in the dispatch of his Lordship’s concerns
before you, whereby your Lordship will oblige my Lord of Worcester, and
also him who is,
Your Lordships very humble servant,
ALBEMARLE.
Cockpit, 3 Jan. 1665.
Addressed at the back--“For the Right Honourable Henry Lord Arlington,
Principal Secretary of State these, at Oxford.”
[*.* Calendared under 1666.]
Vol. 142. No. 11, 2. Reference to the Lord Chancellor and others.
[See Cal. State Papers, Dom. Series, 1665–66. Edited by Mrs. M. A. E.
Green, 8vo. 1864. P. 189, No. 27.]
* * * * *
_State Papers._ Vol. 152, No. 10.
Reference to Sir Thomas Ingram--[_Ent. Book 18, page 200._]
Marquis of Worcester.
Upon the Petition of the Marquis of Worcester, who desiring to be
heard in his suit about Mr. Hall, to be referred to the Chancellor
of the Dutchy.
March 24, 1665–66.
His Majesty is graciously pleased to refer the suit of the honourable
Petitioner unto the Rt. Honble. Sir Thomas Ingram, Knt., and to
consider thereof, and to report his opinion thereupon to his Majesty,
who will then declare his further pleasure, with a gracious regard to
the Petitioner’s services and sufferings.
[See Cal. State Papers, Dom. Series, 1665–66. Edited by Mrs. M. A. E.
Green, 8vo. 1864. page 316, No. 11, 3.]
* * * * *
_State Papers._ Vol. 152, No. 82.
[Reference thereon to the Lord Chancellor and others.]
At the Court of Whitehall, March the [March 24, 1665–6.]
His Majesty is graciously pleased to refer this honourable Petitioner,
and his suit, to the Right Honourable the Lord High Chancellor of
England, and the Lord Privy Seal, the Duke of Albemarle, the Marquis
of Dorchester, the Earl of Anglesey, the Earl of Loutherdale, the Lord
Holles, the Lord Ashley, myself, and Mr. Secretary Morrice, or to
any three or more of them, who are hereby authorized to take special
care to find out the truth of the whole particulars, which will be
afforded by the Petitioner, and to report the same to his Majesty,
their opinions of the most proper and expeditious way for his Majesty
to answer the Petitioner’s desires, so far as the same shall be found
just, upon whose report his Majesty will take a speedy course for the
Petitioner’s satisfaction.
[No signature, date, or endorsement. But in Cal. State Papers,
1665–66, reference is made, p. 316, No. 11, to _Ent. Book_ 18,
p. 18, which supplies the date 24 March, 1665–6.]
[See Cal. State Papers, Dom. Series, 1665–66. Edited by Mrs. M. A. E.
Green. 8vo. 1864, page 330, No. 82.]
* * * * *
APPENDIX K.
JOHN GOWER.
[In the “Life, Times, &c.,” page 108, a quotation is given from
the poet Gower, as used by Henry Marquis of Worcester, in
addressing Charles I. and is again alluded to at page 145. The
author is indebted to a friend for taking the trouble to search
the works of the poet, at the London Institution, and supplying,
from Chalmers’ edition, 1810, page 218, the following reference
and extract.
The lines occur in “Confessio Amantis,” Book VII. in a dialogue,
the subject being: “Of the three, Wine, Women, or the King, which
is the strongest?” Harpages says:--]
A kynge maie spille,[F] a kynge maie saue,
A kynge maie make a lorde a knaue,
And of a knaue a lorde also,
The power of a kynge stont[G] so:
That he the lawes ouerpasseth.
What he will make lesse, he lasseth,
What he will make more, he moreth.
CATALOGUE OF EARLY SCIENTIFIC WORKS,
PRINCIPALLY ANTERIOR TO THE PUBLICATION OF THE CENTURY OF
INVENTIONS, IN 1663;
WITH A FEW MODERN AUTHORITIES ON MECHANICAL INVENTIONS,
AFFORDING COLLATERAL ILLUSTRATIONS.
ARAGO, FRANÇOIS, Member of the Institute. Biographies of
Distinguished Scientific Members. Translated by Admiral Smith,
Rev. B. Powell, M.A., and R. Grant, M.A. 8vo. 1857. [Life of
James Watt.]
BABINGTON, JOHN, Pyrotechnia: or, A Discourse of Artificiall
Fire-works. Whereunto is annexed a short treatise of Geometrie.
Folio. 1635.
BACON, ROGER. Frier Bacon his discovery of the miracles of art,
nature, and magick. Faithfully translated out of Dr. Dee’s own
copy, by T. M. and never before in English. London, Printed for
Simon Miller, at the Starre in St. Pauls Church-yard. 12mo. 63
pages. 1659.
BARLOW, PETER, _F.R.S. &c._--See Encyclopædia Metropolitana.
BATE, JOHN, The Mysteries of Nature and Art in four severall parts.
The first of water-works: the second of fire-works: the third of
drawing, washing, limning, painting, and engraving: the fourth of
sundry experiments. 4to. 1634. The second edition. 1635.
BECHERUS, J. J. Character, pro Notia Linguarum universali. 8vo.
Franc. 1661.
BEDWELL, WILLIAM.--See Peter Ramus.
BESSON, JACQUES. Il Theatro de gl’ Instrumenti e Machine; con una
brieve dichiaration di tutte le figure di F. Beroaldo. Folio.
Lione, 1582.
BESSONI, JACOBI, Delphinatis, Mathematici ingeniosissimi. Theatrum
Instrumentorum et Machinarum. Cum FRANC. BEROALDI figurum
declaratione demonstratiua. folio. Lugduni. 1578. [London
Institution.]
BETTINO, Bononiensi, e soc. Jesu. Mario. Apariari universæ
philosophiæ mathematicæ. Folio. Bononiæ, 1642.
BILLINGSLEY, HENRY, Citizen of London. The Elements of Geometrie,
of the most auncient Philosopher Euclide of Megra. Faithfully
(now first) translated into the Englishe toung. With a faithfull
Preface made by M. J. Dee. Imprinted at London by John Daye.
Folio. 1570. [The date is at the end, vide page 465.]
BOURNE, WILLIAM, Inventions or Devices. Very necessary for all
generalles and captaines, or leaders of men, as wel by sea as
land: Written by -- 4to. An. 1578.
BOYLE, THE HONOURABLE ROBERT, The Works of. Preface by Thomas
Birch. 5 vols, folio. 1744.
BRADLEY, RICHARD, _F.R.S._ New Improvements of Planting and
Gardening, both philosophical and practical. 8vo. 1718.
[The 2nd edition in 3 parts, separately paged. See 3rd part, pp.
174–179.]
BRANCA, GIOVANNI, Le Machine. Volume nuovo e di molto artificio, da
fare effetti maravigliosi tanto Spiritali, &c. 4to. Roma, 1629.
BROCKLERUM, GEORGIUM ANDREAM. Theatrum Machinarum novum. Folio.
Coloniae Agrippinae, 1662.
BROWN, J. W. The Life of Leonardo da Vinci, with a critical account
of his works. 12mo. 1828.
CAUS, ISAAC DE. New and rare inventions of Water-works, shewing the
easiest waies to raise water higher then the spring. By which
invention the Perpetual Motion is proposed many hard labours
performed And variety of motions and sounds produced. First
written in French by Isaak de Caus a late famous engineer: And
now translated into English by John Leak. London, Printed by
Joseph Moxon. Folio. 1659. [London Institution.]
CAUS, SALOMON DE. Les Raisons des forces Mouvantes avec diverses
Machines. Folio. Francfort, 1615.
-------- Zusatz von allerhand Mühl Wasser und Brotten Werken. [The
second part of a volume commencing with, “Heronis Alexandrini
Buch von der Lufft und Wasser Kunst.”] 4to. Francfurt, 1688.
[Fifty-five quarto copper-plates, Mills, Fountains, and Automata.]
CHILMEAD, WILLIAM, _M. A._--See James Gaffarel.
CLARK, DANIEL K., _C. E._--See Encyclopædia Britannica.
COSMO THE THIRD, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Travels through England
during the reign of Charles II. (1669). Roy. 4to. 1821.
DESAGULIERS, The Rev. J. T., _LL.D., F.R.S. &_. A Course of
Experimental Philosophy. 2 vols. 4to. 1763.
-------- Account of the Automaton, by M. Vaucanson, Inventor,
translated by. 4to. 1742.
DIGGES, THOMAS, A geometrical practical treatize named
Pantrometria, divided into three Books. Folio. 1591.
DIGGES, LEONARD, Gentleman. A Prognotification cuertaininge
Orriginal good effecte, fruitfully augmented by the auctour, &c.
augmented by Thomas Digges his sonne. B. L. 4to. 1576.
DIRCKES, HENRY. Perpetuum Mobile; or, a history of the search for
self-motive power, during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries,
illustrated from various authentic sources; with an Introductory
Essay. Post 8vo. 1861.
DIRCKS, HENRY. A Biographical Memoir of Samuel Hartlib. Containing
a reprint of his publication of Cressy Dymock’s account of “An
Invention of Engines of Motion.” 8vo. 1865.
DOPPELMAYR, JOHANN GABRIEL. Historische Nachricht von den
Nürnbergischen Mathematicis und Kunstlern. Folio. Nürnberg, 1730.
DUDLEY, DUD. Metallum Martis: or, Iron made with Pit-coale, &c.
4to. 1665.
DYMOCK, CRESSY. An Invention of Engines of Motion lately brought to
perfection. [See reprint in H. Dircks’ Life of Samuel Hartlib.
post octavo. 1864.]
ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA. Vol. 20, 8th edition. 4to. 1860.
[Article--Steam and Steam Engine. By Daniel K. Clark, C. E.]
ENCYCLOPÆDIA METROPOLITANA. 4to. 1845. [Vol. 6, Mixed Sciences.
Containing--A Treatise on the Manufactures and Machinery of Great
Britain. By Peter Barlow, F.R.S., &c. 1836.]
ETTEN, HENRY VAN. Mathematicall Recreations. Or a Collection of
sundrie _Problemes_, extracted out of the Ancient and Moderne
_Philosophers_, as secrets in nature, and experiments in
Arithmeticke, Geometrie, &c. Most of which were written first in
Greeke and Latine, lately compiled in French, by Henry Van Etten,
Gent. Small 8vo. 1633.
-------- Recreation Mathematique et entretien facetieux de plusieurs
plaisants problemes en faict d’arithmetique, geometrie,
mechanique, opticque, et autres parties de ces belles sciences.
12mo. Pont-a-Mousson, 1629.
-------- See also Claude Mydorge.
EVELYN, JOHN, _F.R.S._ Memoirs illustrative of the Life and
Writings of, edited by William Bray, F.S.A. 2 vols. 4to. 1819.
-------- The Miscellaneous Writings of. By William Upcott. 4to. 1825.
FALCONER, JOHN. Cryptomenysis Patefacta: or the Art of Secret
Information disclosed without a key. Small 8vo. 1685.
[Contains also notices of “Secret Information, mentioned by
Trithemius.”]
FAREY, JOHN. A treatise on the Steam Engine. 4to. 1827.
FELTON, EDMOND. Engins invented to save much blood and moneyes (in
these times of warre), and to doe extraordinary good service. [A
tract of 8 pages.] 4to. 1644.
FIGUIER, LOUIS. Exposition et Histoire des Principales Découvertes
Scientifiques Modernes. 4 vols. post 8vo. Paris, 1862. [Tome
Premier. Machine a vapeur.]
FLUD, ROBERTO. Utrisque Cosmi majoris scilicet et minoris
metaphysica, physica atque technica historia in duo Volumina
secundum cosmi diffirentiam divisa. Folio. Oppenhemii, 1617.
[Dedication signed--R. Fludd.]
FOSBROKE. The Rev. THOMAS D., _M.A.,_ &c. Encyclopædia of
Antiquities and elements of Archæology. 8vo. 1840.
FOSTER, SAMUEL. Miscellanies: or, Mathematical Lucubrations.
Translated by Dr. John Twysden. Folio. 1659.
FRENCH, JOHN, Doctor of Physick. The art of distillation, or a
treatise of the choicest spagyricall preparations performed by
way of distillation; in 6 books. 4to. 1650.
FRENCH, JOHN. The same. Second edition. To which is added, The
London Distiller. 4to. 1653.
[Numerous woodcuts of distillatory apparatus.]
GAFFAREL, JAMES. Unheard-of Curiosities concerning the Talismanical
sculptures of the Persians, &c. Translated by Edmund Chilmead,
M.A. small 8vo. 1650.
GHEYN, JACOB DE. The Exercise of Armes, for Calivers, Muskettes,
and Pikes, After the ordre of his Excellence Maurits, Prince of
Orange, &c. Sett forth in the figures by Jacob de Gheyne. Printed
at the Hage. Folio. 1607.
GIACINTO, AMATI. Ricerche Storico-Critico-Scientifiche sulle
origini, scoperte, invenzioni e perfezionamenti fatti nelle
lettere nelle arti e nelle scienze. 5 Tom. 8vo. Milan, 1828. [In
Vol. 2, “Stenografia.”]
GLASGOW Mechanics’ Magazine, and Annals of Philosophy. 2nd Vol.
8vo. Glasgow, 1825.
GROLLIER DE SERVIÈRE, NICHOLAS. Recueil d’ouvrages curieux de
mathématique et de méchanique; ou description du cabinet de M.
Grollier de Servière. 4to. Lyon, 1719.
GROSE, FRANCIS. Military Antiquities. 2 vols. 4to. 1801.
HALLIWELL, J. O., _F.R.S._ &c. A Collection of Letters illustrative
of the progress of Science in England from the reign of Q.
Elizabeth, to that of Charles II. Edited by. 8vo. 1841.
-------- Rara Mathematica; or, Collection of Treatises on the
Mathematics. Edited by. 1841.
HARLEIAN MISCELLANY. By Oldys and Park. 4to. 6th Vol. 9th Vol.
HARSDÖRFFERN, GEORG PHILIPP. Deliciæ Mathematicæ et Physicæ.
Z’weyter Theil. 4to. Nürnberg, 1677.
-------- Dritter Theil. 4to. Nürnberg, 1692. [See M. D. Schwenterum.]
HARTLIB, SAMUEL.--See Invention.--See also H. Dircks.
HERO, Alexandrinus, _Senior_; CTESIBII Ascreni Discipulus.
1. Spiritalium Liber, à FREDERICO COMMANDINO ex Græco in Latinum
conversus; cum figuris. 4to. Urbini, 1575.
2. Di Herone Alessandrino de gli Automati, overo Machine se
Moventi, Libri due, Tradotti dal Greco da Bernardino Baldi.
4to. Venetia, 1589.
3. Spiritalium Liber: altera editio; cui accesserunt JO. BAPT.
ALEOTTI, quatuor Theoremata Spiritalia, ex Italico in Latinum
conversa; cum figuris. 4to. Amsterdam, 1680. [A 4to. edition
also printed at Bologna, 1647.]
4. Veterum Mathematicorum--Athenæi, Bitonis, Apollodori, Heronis,
Philonis, et Aliorum Opera; Græce et Latine, pleraque nunc
primum edita. Ex Manuscriptis Codicibus Bibliothecæ Regiæ.
Folio. Parisiis, 1693.
HEWETT, JOHN. Ancient Armour and Weapons. 3 vols. 8vo. 1860.
HOOKE, ROBERT, _F.R.S._ Lectiones Cutlerianæ, a Collection of
Lectures made before the Royal Society. 4to. 1679.
[See No. 1. of the “Philosophical Collections” therein.]
HOOPER, DR. WILLIAM. Rational Recreations. 1st and 2d Vol. 8vo.
1794.
HUMANE INDUSTRY: or a History of most manual arts, deducing the
original, progress, and improvement of them. Furnished with
variety of instances and examples, shewing forth the excellency
of Humane Wit. small 8vo. 1661. [By Thomas Powell, _D.D._; see
Ant. À. Wood, &c.]
HUTTON, CHARLES, _LL.D._ and _F.R.S._ Mathematical Dictionary.
1815.
INVENTION (An) of Engines of Motion lately brought to perfection.
Whereby may be dispatched any work now done in England or
elsewhere, (especially works that require strength and swiftness)
either by wind, water, cattel or men. And that with better
accommodation, and more profit then anything hitherto known and
used. London, Printed by J. C. for Richard Woodnoth, nezt door to
the Golden heart, in Leaden-hall Street. 16 pages. 4to. 1651.
[Two copies in the British Museum; one as above, the other with
“nezt” corrected to “next.” This scarce pamphlet consists of two
Letters without signature, addressed to Samuel Hartlib.]
INVENTION.--See Cressy Dymock. Also, Temple Anecdotes.
INVENTIONS.--See Wonderful Inventions.
KIRCHERUS, Athanasius, Germanus, Fuldensis, Soc. Jesu. Romani
Collegii Societatus Jesu Musæum celeberrimum. Folio. Amstelodami,
1678.
[Caput IV. _De Horologiis._ Caput V. _De Mobili perpetuo
apparente_.]
LANIS, P. Francisci Tertii de. Magisterium Naturæ, et Artis. 3
vol. fol. Brixiæ, 1684.
LEAK, JOHN.--See Isaac de Caus.
LEYBOURN, WILLIAM, Philomathes. Pleasure with Profit: consisting of
recreations of divers kinds, viz., Numerical, Geometrical,
Mechanical, &c. folio. 1694.
[The compiler was a schoolmaster, and although largely indebted
to Bishop Wilkins and other learned authors, he never names a
single authority.]
LUCAR, CYPRIAN, Gent. Three Bookes of Colloquies concerning the
arte of shooting in great and small peeces of artillerie,
variable randges, measure, and waight of leaden, yron, and marble
stone pellets, minerall saltpeetre, gunpowder of divers sortes,
&c. Written in Italian by Nicholas Tartaglia; and now translated
into English by, (augmented, and with additions) fol. 1588.
------------ A Treatise named Lucarsolace, divided into Fovver Bookes,
which in part are collected out of diuerse authors, in
diuerse languages. 4to. 1590.
LEUPOLD, JACOB.--1. Theatrum Machinarum generale; mit figuren, und
register. Folio. Leipzig, 1726.
---- 2. Hydrotechnicarum. Folio. 1724.
---- 3. Machinarum Hydraulicarum; oder, Schau Platz der Wasser-Künste.
2 vols. Folio. 1724–25.
---- 4. Staticum universale. 1726.
---- 5. Pontificiale. Folio. 1726.
---- 6. Machinarum; oder, Schau-Platz der Heb-Zeuge. 1725.
---- 7. Arithmetico-Gemetricum 1726.
MECHANICS’ MAGAZINE. Third Vol. 8vo. 1825.
MEIKLEHAM, ROBERT. Author of several works under the pseudonym of
Robert Stuart: which see accordingly.
MARKHAM, G. The Souldiers Exercise: in three Bookes. 4to. 1639.
MEYRICK, SIR S. R. Ancient Armour and Arms. 2 vols. Folio. 1830.
MORVVYNG, PETER. The treasure of Evonymus, contayninge the
wonderfull hid secretes of nature, touchinge the most apte formes
to prepare and destyl Medicines, &c. 4to. 1559.
MYDORGE, CLAUDE. Examen du Livre des Recréations Mathématiques, et
de ses problèmes en Géométrie, Mechanique, Optique, and
Catoptrique, &c. [And at the end] Notes sur les Recreations
Mathématiques. Par D. H. P. E. M. Small 8vo. Paris, 1638.
[See Van Etten’s work printed at Pont-a-Mousson, 1629, and later
editions; Mydorge’s work is a copy of their matter and
engravings. He was an eminent mathematician: born at Paris,
1585.]
MUIRHEAD, JAMES, P. _M.A._ &c. The Life of James Watt, with
selections from his Correspondence. 2nd Edition. 8vo. 1859.
NOWE, LORD DE LA. The Politicke and Militarie Discourses of.
Translated out of the French by E. A. B. Letter. 4to. 1587.
PANCIROLLUS, GUIDO. The history of many memorable things lost,
which were in use among the Ancients, &c. 12mo. 1715.
PAPILLON, DAVID, Gent. A practicall Abstract of the Arts of
Fortification and Assailing. 4to. 1645.
PARTINGTON, CHARLES F. A course of Lectures on the Steam Engine,
delivered at the London Mechanics’ Institution, &c. 12mo. 1826.
PEACHAM, HENRY, _M.A._ The compleat Gentleman. 4to. 1627.
PERCY ANECDOTES. By S. & R. Percy. 12mo. 1820.
[Articles--Science, Genius, Ingenuity.]
PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE. Edited by A. Tilloch. 18th Vol. 8vo. 1804.
PLAT, SIR HUGH, of Lincolne’s Inne. The Jewell House of Art and
Nature. Printed by Peter Short, on Breadstreet hill, at the signe
of the Star. 4to. 1594.
[It contains 4 Books and a last part. The 3 first Books have
separate title pages, the first paged 1 to 96, the second 1 to
60, and the third 1 to 48, but also takes in the fourth Book and
last part under continuous paging, ending p. 76.
According to the Table of Contents--“The first Booke conteineth
divers new and conceited experiments.”
The second of “Husbandry;” the third of “Divers Chimicall
conclusions concerning the art of Distillation.”
The fourth Book the “Art of molding or casting.” And the last
part “an offer of certain new inventions.”]
---- The Jewel House of Art and Nature: containing divers rare and
profitable inventions, &c. Another edition. 4to. 1653.
PLOT, DR. ROBERT. Natural History of Staffordshire. Folio. 1684.
PORTA, JOHN BAPTISTA. I tre Libri de’ Spiritali. 4to. Napoli, 1606.
---- Natural Magick; in 20 Books. Wherein are set forth all the
riches and delights of the Natural Sciences. Folio. 1658.
POWELL, THOMAS, _D.D._ See Humane Industry.
RAMELLI, CAPITANO AGOSTINO. Le Diverse et artificiose Machine.
Folio. 1588.
[This exceedingly rare and valuable work contains 195 well
executed folio plates.]
RAMUS, PETER. Via Regia ad Geometriam. The way to Geometry. being
necessary and useful. For Astronomers, Geographers, Land-meaters,
Seamen, Engineres, Architecks, Carpenters, &c. Written in Latine
by Peter Ramus, and now translated by Mr. William Bedwell. 4to.
1636.
ROVINSON, JOHN. A treatise of Metallica. And containeth a briefe
explanation, &c., of the instruments, engins, furnaces, &c. 4to.
1613.
[A copy in the British Museum; also reprinted in two editions,
edited by Mr. John N. Bagnall, at Wolverhampton, 1854.]
SCHOTTUS, GASPAR, Regis Curianus, Soc. Jesu, in
Herbipolitano-Franconia Gymnasio Math. Prof.
-- Magia universalis naturæ et artis, sive recondita naturalium et
artificialium rerum scientia; cum figuris, et indicibus. 4 vols.
4to. Bambergæ, 1677.
-- Mechanica Hydraulico-Pneumatica (cum notis musicis). Plates.
4to. Herbipoli, 1657–58.
-- Pantometrum Kircherianum, hoc est, Instrumentum Geometricum
novum a Kirchero inventum, explicatum et demonstrationibus
illustratum. Plates. 4to. _Ibid._ 1660.
-- Cursus Mathematicus. Fol. 1661.
-- Mathesis Cæsarea, sive Amussis Ferdinandrea ad Problemata
Universæ Matheseos, &c. Plates. 4to. _Ibid._ 1662.
-- Technica Curiosa, sive Mirabelia Artis. 2 parts in 1. _Ibid._
1664.
SCHWENTERUM, M. DANIELEM. Deliciæ Physico-Mathematicæ. 4to.
Nürnberg, 1636.
---- See also G. F. Harsdörffern.
SERVIÈRE, GROLLIER DE.--See Grollier de Servière.
SORBIÈRE, MONS. A Voyage to England, containing many things relating
to the state of learning, religion, and other curiosities of that
kingdom. 8vo. 1709.
[Also, Observations on the same voyage, by Dr. Thomas Sprat,
F.R.S. With a Letter of M. Sorbière.]
SORBIÈRE, SAMUEL. Relation d’un Voyage en Angleterre. Paris, 1664.
[Dedication to the King, dated 12th Dec., 1663.]
SPRAT, THOMAS, _F.R.S._ Observations on Monsieur Sorbière’s Voyage
into England; written to Dr. Wren, Professor of Astronomy. 12mo.
1665. [See M. Sorbière.]
STATE PAPERS, Calendars of (various). 8vo. 1856–64.
STEVIN, SIMON, de Bruges. Les Œuvres Mathematiques. Augmentées
par Albert Girard. Fol. A Leyde, 1634.
STUART, ROBERT. A descriptive History of the Steam Engine. 8vo.
1824.
------ Historical and Descriptive Anecdotes of Steam Engines and of
their Inventors. 2 vols. 32mo. 1829.
STURTEVANT, SIMON. Metallica, or the Treatise of Metallica. [The
making of Iron with Sea-cole, &c.] 4to. 1612.
SWITZER, STEPHEN. An introduction to a general system of
hydrostaticks and hydraulics. 2 vols. 4to. 1729.
TEMPLE ANECDOTES, THE; Invention and Discovery. By R. & C. Temple.
Post 8vo. 1864.
TEYSER, JOHANNIS. Architecturæ Militaris. 4to. 1553.
[In 4 Books, with engraved title and plates; pp. 56.]
TIMBS, JOHN, _F.S.A._ Stories of Inventors and Discoverers. 12mo.
1860.
TREDGOLD, THOMAS, _C.E._ The principles and practice, and
explanation of the Machinery used in steam navigation. Compiled
by ----. 2 vols. 4to. 1851.
TRITHEMII, JOANNIS. Libri Polygraphiæ VI. Small 8vo. Argentinæ,
1600.
[There is also a quarto edition, with diagrams.]
TYMME, THOMAS. A Dialogue Philosophical, wherein Natures secret
closet is opened, and the cause of all motion in nature shewed
out of matter and forme, &c. 4to. 1612.
UBALDI, GUIDI, i machionibus montis in duos Archimedis
æqueponderantium libros praphrasis scholiis illustrata. Folio.
Pisauri, 1588:
---- è marchionibus montis. Mechanicorum Liber. Pisauri, 1577.
---- Mechanica. Fol. Pisaur. 1577. And Venice, 1615.
---- De Cochlea. Fol. Venice, 1615. pp. 160.
UPCOTT, WILLIAM.--See John Evelyn, F.R.S.
VALTURIUS, ROBERTUS, De Re Militari. Folio. Parisiis, 1532.
---- Another edition. Folio. Parisiis, 1534.
[In the Library of the Patent Office. The same volume
contains:--Flavius Vegetius de Re Militari.--Sextus Julius
Frontinus, Stratagematum.--Ælianus de Instruendis Aciebus.--And,
Modestus, Libellus de Vocabulis Rei Militaris.]
VEGETIUS RENATUS, FLAVIUS.
---- 1. De re militari Libri IV. Fol. Plato de Benedictis, Bononiæ,
1495. _Inter_ Scriptores de re militari.
Sextus Julius Frontinus Vit. consularis de re militari.--Flauius
Vegetius Vit. Illustris de re militari.--Aelianus de instruendis
aciebus.--Modesti, libellus de uocabulis rei militaris. [No
engravings.]
---- 2. De re militari Libri IV.: cum picturis bellicis ligno
incisis. Fol. Char. Wechelius, Parisiis, 1535.--Inter Scriptores
de re militari.
[Large engraved figure of a Knight on the back of the title page,
and numerous bold, freely executed curious large wood
engravings.]
---- 3. VEGEZIO dell’ arte militare, nella commune lingua novamente
tradotto da TIZZONI GAETANO da Pofi. Small 8vo. Venetia, 1540.
[Wood engraved title page.]
---- 4. Il Modesimo; tradotto da FRANCESCO FERROSI. Small 8vo.
_Gabriel Giolito_, Vinegia, 1551. [No engravings.]
---- 5. De re militari Libri IV. Sexti Julii Frontini viri
consularis de stratagematis libri totidem. Fol. Paris, 1553.
---- 6. De re militari Libri IV. [Frontini; Ælianus, Modestus.] G.
Stewechio. 8vo. Lugduni Batavorum, 1592.
VETERUM MATHEMATICORUM, 1693.--See HERO, No. 4.
VINCI, LEONARDO DA. Life of. See J. W. Brown.
VITRUVIO de Architectura traducto (da C. Cesariano, Bono Mauro,
Benedotto Jovio, Novo Comasco, &c.) e commentato da Cesare
Cesariano. Woodcuts. Fol. Como, 1521.
[1st Book, p. 23. Aeolipilarum Figura. Also engraving of a large
vessel with paddles. Liber Decimus, p. 174.]
VITRUVIUS PALLIO, MARCUS. De architectura Libri X. Fol. Romæ, circa
1486.
[WALLACE, PROFESSOR]. The History of the Steam-Engine from the
second century before the Christian era. New edition, illustrated.
12mo. London, _Cassell_, 1860.
WATT, JAMES.--See J. P. Muirhead.
WEALE’S QUARTERLY PAPERS.--Vol. V.
WHITE, JOHN. A rich Cabinet, with variety of Inventions, unlock’d
and open’d, for the recreation of ingenious spirits. 12mo. 1684.
WILKINS, JOHN, _M.A._ (Bishop of Chester). Mathematicall Magick.
Or, The wonders that may be performed by mechanicall geometry. By
J. W., M.A. Small 8vo. 1648.
---- Mercury, or the secret and swift messenger: shewing how a man
may with privacy and speed communicate his thoughts to a friend
at any distance. By J. W., M.A. Small 8vo. 1641.
WONDERFUL INVENTIONS; A History of. 12mo. 18--.
ZEISING, HENRICUS. Theatri Machinarum. Thick 4to. Leipzigk, 1612.
[Compiled principally from Bessoni and Ramelli’s works.]
ZONCA, VITTORIA, Architect. Novo Teatro di Machine et Edificii.
Folio. Padoua, 1656.
CATALOGUE OF BOOKS EITHER QUOTED OR CONSULTED IN REFERENCE TO
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE MARQUIS OF WORCESTER.
1 AIAZZI, Cura di G. Nunziatura in Irlanda di Monsignor Gio.
Batista Rinuccini Arcivescovo di Fermo negli anni 1645 a 1649. 8vo.
Firenze, 1844.
2 ALLEN, THOMAS. The Historical Antiquities of London, &c.;
continued by Thomas Wright. 4 vols. 8vo. 1839.
3 ---- History and Antiquities of the Parish of Lambeth. 4to. 1827.
4 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1769.
4*ANTIQUARIAN REPERTORY. By Francis Grose, F.S.A., &c. and
other eminent antiquarians. Vol. IV. 4to. 1809.
4**ARCHÆOLOGIA; or Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Antiquity.
Vol. 6. 4to. 1782.
5 ATKYNS, SIR ROBERT. The ancient and present state of
Gloucestershire. Folio. 1712.
-- BAKER, CHARLES. See T. D. or T. Dineley.
5*BARBER, J. T., _F.S.A._ A Tour through South Wales and
Monmouthshire. 8vo. 1803.
5**BARRINGTON, SIR JONAH. Historic Memoirs of Ireland. 2nd edition.
2 vols. 4to. 1833.
6 BAYLEY, JOHN, _F.R.S._, &c. The History and Antiquities of the
Tower of London. In 2 parts, royal 4to. 1825.
7 BAYLY, THOMAS, (Sub-dean of Bath and Wells). Worcester’s
Apophthegme: or Witty sayings of the Right Honourable Henry (late)
Marquess and Earl of Worcester. By T. B. Small 12mo. 1650.
7*---- Certamen Religiosum: or, a conference between his late Majesty,
Charles King of England, and Henry late Marquis and Earl of
Worcester, concerning Religion, 1646. 12mo. 1649.
8 BEATSON’S Political Index modernised; The Book of Dignities.
By Joseph Haydn. 8vo. 1851.
9 BEATTIE, WM., M.D. The Castles and Abbeys of England. Royal 8vo. 18--.
10 BEAUFORT FAMILY, Portraits and Biographical Notices of the. Folio.
Salisbury, 1804.
11 [BELING, SIR RICHARD.] Vindicarum Catholicarum Hiberniæ. Authore
Philopatro Irenæo. Libri duo, quorum. pp. 256. 18mo. Paris, 1650.
[He was one of the great movers of the rebellion, but of the
moderate party.]
12 BETHAM, REV. WILLIAM. The Baronetage of England. 4to. 1803.
12*BIBLIOTHECA REGIA; or, The Royal Library, Ch. II. Not extant in
the Reliquiæ Carolinæ. In two Books, 12mo. [Brit. Mus.] 1659.
13 BIRCH, THOMAS, _D.D._, Secretary of the Royal Society. An Inquiry
into the share which Charles I. had in the transactions of the
Earl of Glamorgan. 8vo. 1756.
-- BLISS’ WALPOLE. See Walpole.
14 BOYLE, HONOURABLE ROBERT, The Works of. 5 vols. folio. 1744.
-- BROOKE, RALPHE. See Augustine Vincent.
15 BROOKS, WM. ALEX., Architect. Select Specimens of the Monastic,
Castellated, and Domestic Architecture of Great Britain.
Part 1, Nos. 1 and 2, [all pubd.] folio. 1826.
16 BRUCE, JOHN, _F.S.A._, &c. Charles I. in 1646; Letters of
Charles the First to Queen Henrietta Maria. Edited by ---- [Camden
Society.] 4to. 1856.
17 BRYDGES, SIR EGERTON, Bart. Memoirs of the Peers of England during
the reign of James I. [all pubd.] 8vo. 1802.
18 ---- Restituta; or, Titles and Extracts of Old Books. 4 vols. 8vo.
1815.
19 ---- Censura Literaria. 10 vols. 8vo. 1815.
20 BURKE, SIR BERNARD. A Visitation of the Seats and Arms of the
Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain. 2nd edn. 8vo. 1855.
21 Buck’s Antiquities; or Venerable Remains of above 400 Castles, &c.
in England and Wales. 3 vols, folio. 1774.
22 BURTON, THOMAS, M.P. Diary of the Parliaments of Oliver and Richard
Cromwell. 4 vols. 8vo, 1828.
-- BYRNE, W., _F.S.A._ See Thomas Hearne.
22*CARLISLE, NICHOLAS, _F.R.S._ &c. An inquiry into the place and
quality of the Gentlemen of His Majesty’s honourable Privy
Chamber. 8vo. 1829.
23 CARLYLE, THOMAS. Oliver Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches. 4 vols.
1850.
24 CARTE, THOMAS, M.A. A History of the Life of James Duke of Ormonde.
1736.
25 [CARTE, THOMAS.] Life of James Duke of Ormond, containing an
account of the most remarkable affairs of his time, and
particularly of Ireland under his government: with an Appendix and
a Collection of Letters. A new edition. 6 vols. 8vo. Oxford, 1851.
-- CHARLES I. Letters, 1664. See John Bruce.
26 CLARENDON’S History of the Rebellion. 7 vols. 8vo. 1849.
-- CLARENDON’S Life, &c. See T. H. Lister.
26*---- State Papers collected by, 3 vols. Folio. Oxford, 1767–1773
and 1786.
27 CLAYTON, J. W. Personal Memoirs of Charles II. 2 vols. 8vo. 1859.
28 COLLINS, ARTHUR. Letters and Memorials of State. 2 vols. folio.
1746.
-- ---- Peerage of England. 9 vols. 8vo. 1812.
29 CORBET, JOHN, Preacher of God’s Word. An Historicall relation of
the Military Government of Gloucestershire from the beginning of
the Civill Warre. 1645. [Reprinted in “Bibliotheca Gloucestrensis.”
By John Washbourn, jr. 4to. Gloucester, 1825.]
30 COSMO the Third, Grand Duke of Tuscany. Travels through England
during the reign of K. Charles II. (1669.) Royal 4to. 1821.
31 COXE, WM., A.M., &c. An Historical Tour in Monmouthshire,
illustrated with views by Sir R. C. Hoare, Bart., &c. 4to. 1801.
-- COURTHOPE, WILLIAM. See Sir Harris Nicolas.
32 CROKER, T. C. Narratives illustrative of the Contests in Ireland
in 1641–1690. Edited by. (Camden Society). 4to. 1841.
33 CUNNINGHAM, PETER. Handbook of London. 12mo. 1850.
34 [DINELEY, T.] Notitia Cambro-Britannica: A voyage of North and
South Wales; being observations in attending his Grace the Duke
of Beaufort, in his progress there, 1684. By T. D. _Gen._ Edited
from the original MS. by Charles Baker, Esq. London, printed for
private circulation. 4to. 1864.
35 DISRAELI, ISAAC. Commentaries on the Life and Reign of Charles I.
2 vols. 8vo. 1851.
36 DODD, CHARLES, [_i.e._ Hugh Tootell]. Church History of England,
from the commencement of the 16th Century to the revolution in
1688. With notes and a continuation by the Rev. M. A. Tierney.
5 vols. 8vo. 1839–43.
36*DUGDALE, WILLIAM, (Norroy King of Arms). The Baronage of England.
Folio. 1675.
37 EVELYN, JOHN, _F.R.S._ Diary and Correspondence of. Edited by Wm.
Bray, F.A.S. 1859. Crown 8vo. 1859.
38 FANSHAWE, LADY. Memoirs of Lady F., wife of the Right Hon. Sir
Richard Fanshawe, Bart. Ambassador from Charles the Second to the
Court of Madrid in 1665. Written by herself. 8vo. 1829.
39 FELLOWES, W. D. Historical Sketches of Charles the First. 4to.
1828.
40 FOSBROKE, REV. THOMAS DUDLEY, _M. A._ A picturesque and
topographical account of Raglan Castle. 12mo. Monmouth, 1831.
-- GARDNOR, JOHN. See David Williams.
41 GLAMORGAN’S, The Earl of, Negotiations and colourable commitment
in Ireland demonstrated, or the Irish Plot for bringing 10,000 men
and arms into England, &c. 4to. 1645.
42 GREEN, VALENTINE, _F.S.A._ The History and Antiquities of the city
and suburbs of Worcester. 2 vols. 4to. 1796.
-- GROSE, FRANCIS, _F.S.A._ See Antiquarian Repertory.
44 GUIZOT, M. History of Charles I. and the English Revolution.
Vol. 2. 8vo. 1854.
45 HARLEIAN Miscellany. Vol. 2. 1809. Vol. 4. Vol. 7, 8. 4to. 1811.
46 HARLEY, Lady Brilliana, Letters of; (Wife of Sir Robert Harley, of
Brampton Bryan, K. B.) With Introduction and notes by Thos. T.
Lewis, A. M. London, (Camden Society.) 4to. 1853.
-- HAYDN, JOSEPH. See Beatson.
47 HEARNE, THOMAS, _F.S.A._ The Antiquities of Great Britain,
illustrated in views of Monasteries, Castles, and Churches.
Engraved by W. Byrne, F.S.A. from Drawings by Thomas Hearne,
F.S.A. 2 vols. Oblong folio. 1807.
48 HEATH, CHARLES, Printer. Historical and descriptive accounts of the
ancient and present state of Ragland Castle. 8vo. Monmouth, 1806.
-- ---- 10th edition. 8vo. Monmouth, 1825.
49 HEATH, JAMES. A brief chronicle of the late war in the three
kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland. In 4 parts. From
1637 to 1663. By H. J. 2nd edition. 12mo. 1663.
50 HOOPER, JACOB. An impartial history of the rebellion and civil
wars in England during the reign of King Charles the First.
Collected from Clarendon, Bishop Kennet, Echard, Rushworth, &c.
Folio, 1738.
51 HOUGH, C. (Monmouth.) A companion to Ragland Castle: or, a familiar
description of that beautiful and interesting ruin. 4to. 1833.
52 HOWEL, JAMES. Londinopolis; an Historicall Discourse of
Perlustration of the City of London, &c. Whereunto is added another
of the city of Westminster. Folio. 1657.
53 HOWITT, William and Mary. Ruined Abbeys and Castles of Great
Britain. 4to. 1862.
54 HUME, DAVID. The History of England. 8 vols. 8vo. 1778.
55 HUME AND SMOLLETT. The History of England. With the continuation
by the Rev. T. S. Hughes, B. D. Crown 8vo. 1854.
-- HYDE, E. Earl of Clarendon--See Clarendon, Earl of.
56 ITER CAROLINUM. Somers’ Tracts, containing 1641 to 1648.
Printed in 1660. 4to.
-- JOHNSON, GEORGE W. The Fairfax Correspondence. Memoirs of the reign
of Charles the First. 4 vols. 8vo. 1848–9.
57 JOURNALS of the House of Commons. Folio. London.
57*JOURNALS of the House of Lords. Folio. London.
58 KENNET, DR. WHITE, (Bishop of Peterborough). A complete History
of England. 3 vols. folio. 1706.
59 ------ A Register and Chronicle, Ecclesiastical and Civil, containing
matters of fact, delivered in the words of the most authentick
books, papers, and records; digested in exact order of time.
Faithfully taken from the MS. collections of the Lord Bishop of
Chester. 2 vols. folio. 1728.
60 KNIGHT’S Pictorial History of England. Royal 8vo. 18--
61 LEYBURN, GEORGE, _D.D._, (Chaplain to Henrietta Maria, Queen of
England), Memoirs of, being a Journal of his agency for Prince
Charles in Ireland, in the year 1647. 12mo. 1722.
62 LINGARD, JOHN, _D.D._ The History of England. 10 vols. 8vo.
5th edition. 1849.
63 LISTER, T. H. Life and Administration of Edward, First Earl of
Clarendon, with original correspondence. 3 vols. 8vo. 1837.
64 LODGE, EDMUND, (Norroy King of Arms, F.S.A.) Portraits and
Memoirs of the most illustrious personages of British History.
Royal 8vo. 1831–3.
65 LYSONS, REV. D., _M.A._, &c. The Environs of London. 4to. 1792.
66 ------ Supplement to the First Edition of Historical Account of the
Environs of London. 4to. 1811.
67 MACAULAY, LORD. The History of England. Vol. 1st. 8vo. 1857.
68 MEEHAN, REV. C. P. The Confederation of Kilkenny. 12mo. Dublin,
1862.
68*MEMORIALS of the English Affairs: or an historical account of
what passed from the beginning of the reign of King Charles
the First, to King Charles the Second his happy restoration.
Printed for N. Ponder. Folio. 1682.
69 MILTON, JOHN, The Prose Works of. By Charles Symonds. 7 vols. 8vo.
1806.
-- NEWCOURT’S Map of Ancient London. 1658. And 1863.
[See Worcester House, Baynard’s Castle, and The Tower.] From an
exact delineation of the Cities of London and Westminster and the
Svbvrbs thereof, Together with ye Burrough of Sovthwark and all
ye thoroughfares, highwaies, streets, lanes and common allies
within the same composed by a Scale, and Iconographically
described by Richard Newcovrt of Somerton in the Countie of
Somerset, Gentleman. Wm. Faithorne, Sculpsit. 1658. [Engraved
from the Original by George Jarman, and pubd. by Edward Stanford,
Charing Cross, 1863.] Measures 3ft. 5in. by 6ft. 3½in.
70 NICOLAS, SIR HARRIS. Historic Peerage of England, revised by
William Courthope, Esq., Somerset Herald. 8vo. 18--
71 NICHOLS, JOHN. The Progresses, &c., of King James the First.
Vol. 1st. 4to. 1828.
72 ---- Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century. 6 vols. 8vo. 1812.
72*---- Literary Anecdotes. 8vo. 1814 and 1815.
73 NICHOLS (J. B.) & SON. Collectanea Topographica. 8vo. 1834.
74 ---- Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica. 8 vols. 8vo. 1841.
[Vol. VII. p. 190.]
75 NICHOLS, JOHN GOUGH. Autographs of Royal, Noble, Learned and
Remarkable Personages conspicuous in English History. Folio. 1829.
76 NOTES AND QUERIES. Second Series. 1st Vol. small 4to. 1856.
-- O’DONOVAN, JOHN. Annals of the Rebellion of Ireland. 4 vols. 1851.
ORMOND, JAMES, DUKE OF, Life of. See Carte.
77 PAMPHLETS, Collection of. 1646. 4to. [The gift of George III. to
the Brit. Mus. E. 350.]
78 PEPYS, SAMUEL, _F.R.S._ Diary and Correspondence of. 6th edition,
in 4 vols, crown 8vo. 1858.
79 PETERBOROUGH, Bishop of. A Register and Chronicle, Ecclesiastical
and Civil; from the Restoration of Charles II. Faithfully taken
from the MS. Collections of. Folio. 1728.
80 PLAYFAIR, W. British Family Antiquity. 4to. 1809.
-- PONDER, N. See Memorials of the English Affairs.
81 POTE, JOSEPH. The History and Antiquities of Windsor Castle, and
the Royal College, and Chapel of St. George. 4to. 1749.
82 PROUT, JOHN SKINNER. The Castles and Abbeys of Monmouthshire.
Folio. 1838.
83 RAGLAND CASTLE; The gallant siege of the Parliamentary forces
before. May 30, 1646.
[“Collection of Pamphlets,” 1646. 4to. The gift of George III. to
the Brit. Mus.]
84 RAGLAND CASTLE; An exact and true relation of the many several
messages that have passed between Sir Thomas Fairfax and the
Marquis of Worcester, &c. &c. 4to. 1646.
[“Collection of Pamphlets,” 1646. 4to. The gift of George III. to
the Brit. Mus.]
85 RAPIN DE THOYRAS. The History of England. Translated by N. Tindal,
M.A. Folio. 1733.
-- RINUCCINI, G. B.--See G. Aiazzi.
-- ROBERTS, GEORGE.--See Walter Yonge.
86 RUDDER, SAMUEL. A new history of Gloucestershire. Folio. 1779.
87 RUSHWORTH, JOHN. Historical Collections. Third part, Vol. 2.
1640–1644. Folio. 1692.
88 SANDFORD, FRANCIS. A genealogical history of the Kings and Queens
of England, and Monarchs of Great Britain, &c., from 1066 to 1707;
continued by Samuel Stebbing. Folio. 1707.
89 SEWARD’S Anecdotes of some distinguished persons. 12mo. 1796.
90 SOMERS, LORD, Tracts. A collection of scarce and valuable tracts,
2nd edition, revised by Sir Walter Scott. Vol. 4. 4to. 1810.
-- SOMERS, LORD.--See Iter Carolinum.
-- SPECTATOR, THE. (Newspaper.) pp. 706 and 733. 1864. Vol.
91 SPRAT, THOMAS, _F.S.A._ Observations on Monsieur Sorbière’s
Voyage into England; written to Dr. Wren, Professor of Astronomy.
12mo. 1665.
92 SPRIGGE, JOHN, _M.A._ Anglia Rediviva; England’s Recovery: being
the History of the Motions, Actions, and Successes of the Army,
&c. Sir Thomas Fairfax, Kt. Folio. 1647.
92*STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC SERIES, Calendars of: viz.--
1547–1580. Edited by R. Lemon, F.S.A. 8vo. 1856.
1603–1610. Edited by Mary Anne Everett Green. 〃 1857.
1611–1618. 〃 〃 〃 〃 1858.
1619–1623. 〃 〃 〃 〃 1858.
1623–1625. 〃 〃 〃 〃 1859.
1625–1626. Edited by John Bruce, V.P.S.A., &c. 〃 1858.
1627–1628. 〃 〃 〃 〃 1858.
1628–1629. 〃 〃 〃 〃 1859.
1629–1631. 〃 〃 〃 〃 1860.
1631–1633. 〃 〃 F.S.A. 〃 1862.
1633–1634. 〃 〃 〃 〃 1863.
1634–1635. 〃 〃 〃 〃 1864.
1660–1661. Edited by Mary Anne Everett Green. 〃 1860.
1661–1662. 〃 〃 〃 〃 1861.
1663–1664. 〃 〃 〃 〃 1864.
1664–1665. 〃 〃 〃 〃 1863.
1665–1666. 〃 〃 〃 〃 1864.
93 SYMONDS, RICHARD. Diary of the marches of the Royal Army during
the great Civil War. From the original Manuscript in the British
Museum. Edited by C. E. Long. London (Camden Society). 4to. 1859.
94 TALLIS’S Illustrated London; with historical and descriptive
letter-press by William Gaspey. 2 vols. 12mo. 1851.
95 THOMAS, F. S. Historical Notes, 1603–1714. Roy. 8vo. 1856.
96 TOONE’S Chronological Historian. 8vo. 1826.
-- TIERNEY, REV. _M.A._--See Charles Dodd.
-- VAUGHAN, ROBERT, _D.D._ The Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell, and
the state of Europe during the early part of the reign of
Louis XIV. 2 vols. 8vo. 1838.
-- VINCENT, AUGUSTINE. A discoverie of Errours in the Catalogue of
Nobility, published by Ralphe Brooke, Yorke Herald. Fol. 1622.
97 WALPOLE, HORACE, Earl of Orford. A Catalogue of the Royal and
Noble Authors of England, &c. Edited by Thomas Park. 8vo. 1806.
98 ---- A Catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors, &c. With copious MS.
Notes by P. Bliss; containing many cuttings from newspapers, &c. 5
vols. 1806.
[Brit. Museum.]
99 ---- Anecdotes of Painting in England. With additions by the Rev.
James Dallaway; revised by N. Wornum. 3 vols 8vo. 1849.
100 WARBURTON, ELIOT. Memoirs of Prince Rupert and the Cavaliers.
3 vols. 8vo. 1849.
101 WARNER, F., _LL.D._ The History of the Rebellion and Civil War in
Ireland. 2 vols. 4to. 1767.
102 WASHBOURN, JOHN, Junr. Bibliotheca Gloucestrensis. 2 vols. 4to.
Gloucester, 1825.
103 WATKYNS, ROWLAND. Flamma sine Fumo; or Poems without Fictions.
By R. W. 16mo. 1662.
104 WELD, C. R. A History of the Royal Society. 2 vols. 8vo. 1848.
105 WHITELOCKE’S Memorials of the English Affairs; Charles I. and II.
Folio. 1732.
106 WIFFEN, J. H. Historical Memoirs of the House of Russell. 2 vols.
8vo. 1833.
107 WILLEMENT, THOMAS. Facsimile of a contemporary Roll, with the
names and the arms of the Sovereign and the Spiritual and Temporal
Peers who sat in the Parliament held at Westminster on the 5th of
February, in the Sixth year of the reign of King Henry VIII. 1515,
in the possession of T. W. Royal 4to. 1829.
108 WILLIAMS, DAVID. The History of Monmouthshire, illustrated with
Views. By John Gardnor, Vicar of Battersea. 4to. 1796.
109 WOOD, ANTHONY ’A. Athenæ Oxonienses; continued by Philip Bliss.
Vol. 3rd. 4to. 1817.
110 YONGE, WALTER, Esq., (Justice of the Peace, and M.P. for Honiton).
Diary written at Colyton and Axminster, Co. Devon, from 1604 to
1628. Edited by George Roberts, (Camden Society.) 4to. 1838.
Footnotes
[A] No letter q or z.
[B] There is in the British Museum, bound up along with other
broadsides, one on which is printed the whole of the foregoing,
commencing with the letter, “Most Gracious Sovereign,” and ending
at this signature. The printed matter covers 14½ by 11 inches of
surface, and was originally a sheet of at least 18 by 13 or 14
inches, including the margin, which has been cut off. It is
catalogued under “Somerset;” and the reference is, Brit. Mus.
No. 12. E 1. 75.
[C] 15 Car. II. cap. xii. 1663.
[D] See also the Notice in Birch’s Inquiry, 1756, page 330.
[72] Nichols, Vol. 2, p. 471.
[72*] Nichols, Vol. 9, 1815, p. 476.
[E] Voir le drame intitulé _Salomon Je Caus_, joué à l’Ambigu en 1857.
[F] _Spille_; to waste, to throw away, to destroy,
[G] _Stont_; for stondeth (standeth).
INDEX TO THE CENTURY OF INVENTIONS.
A.
ADVANTAGEOUS change of centres, 452–456.
ÆOLIPILE, fire-blowing, 542,543.
ALARM for locks, 501.
ANCHOR, to weigh up, 405,406.
ANTIQUITIES, military, 473,474.
APPROACHING blind, an, 432.
ARAGO, M., noticed, 369,372.
ARITHMETICAL instrument. 512.
ARQUEBUSE, 466;
à Croc, 466;
noticed, 474.
ARTIFICIAL fountain, 413,414;
river, 419;
bird, 440;
ring horse, 524.
ASHMOLE’S Museum at Oxford, 356.
AUBREY, Mr., “a professed virtuoso,” 352.
AUTHORS, old scientific, enumerated, 359.
B.
BACON, Lord, notice of, 345.
BACON, ROGER, his invention, 357.
BALANCE water-work, 415,416,417.
BALFOUR, Sir WILLIAM, _note_, 452.
BALL, Mr., “another virtuoso,” 352.
BALL, a hour water, 443,444.
BATE, JOHN, his “Mysteries of Nature and Art,” a favourite work, 359;
his style and the Marquis’s compared, 361;
raises water, 479,480;
weather glass, 546;
on filling Æolipiles, 480;
notices “condensation,” 480;
his use of the technical term “force,” 483,484.
BELLS, discourse by. 449.
BIRD, an artificial flying, 440–443,516.
BLIND, an approaching, 432.
BLUNDERBUSS, or Musketoon, 473;
noticed, 474.
BOAT driving against wind and tide, a, 407–411.
BOATS, patent paddle, 410,411.
BOGAERTS, PETER, his canal lock, 419.
BOURNE, WILLIAM, on “shooting in great ordnaunce,” 400.
BOYLE, Hon. ROBERT, entrusted with the secret of Papin’s
fountain, 351.
BOXES of a cabinet, to lock, 510;
dicing box, 521,522.
BRACELET alphabet, 435.
BRADLEY, R., mentions “the late Mr. Savery,” 487;
account of his engine, 487.
BRANCA, his steam jet, 479.
BRAZEN HEAD, 346;
a brazen or stone, 515–520.
BRIDGE, a portable, 428–429.
BROWNE’S calculating Serpentine scale, 512.
BUCKETS, to raise water, 415–418;
two buckets, 416–418.
BUCKET-FOUNTAIN, a, 417,418.
BULWARK, a rising, 430,432.
BUMBASSES and bullets, to shoot, 421.
C.
CANDLES, a brass mould for, 514,515.
CANNON, tried before Charles I., 467,468;
improvements in, 468;
extraordinary, 469;
various, 469;
experiments at Woolwich, 1651, 469;
to charge fifty, 472.
CANNON, “to level by night,” 400;
Bishop Wilkins’ remarks, 422,423;
burst by water, 475;
charged with water, 481,482.
CARABINES, often discharging, 463;
particulars of, 466;
noticed, 474.
CASTLE-CLOCK, 420,421.
CAUS, SALOMON de, notice of, 369,370,372,542;
his work, 476;
fountain and description, 476,477,478;
comment on, 478,479.
CENTURY of Inventions, its name, 345;
MS. copy, 346;
the MS. and first edition, 347;
title pages, 347;
why misunderstood, 350;
nature of articles therein, 353;
as a literary work, 358;
its value, 358;
variations on its title, 358;
verbal peculiarities, 360;
its practical tendency, 361;
its author’s object, 361;
its form, 362;
similar early statements, 362;
its style accords with the legal form in use for patent
specifications, 363;
agreement between the “Century” and the Marquis’s patent, 363,364;
classical scholars have misapprehended the work, 366;
its suggestive character, 367;
a greater work intended, 367;
conflicting opinions, 367;
how to be viewed and estimated, 368;
the modern steam engine owes its origin to the Marquis and his
work, 369;
Mr. Muirhead’s false estimate of this production and its author’s
invention, 371;
it stands alone, 373;
various editions, 374,375;
reprints in other works, 375;
fac-simile title page (except the frame work), 377;
dedication to Charles I., 379;
Dedication to the Houses of Parliament, 381;
acknowledges the Act for his engine, 383;
mentions the sacrifice of £700,000, 383;
Kaltoff, 383;
its author’s prolific invention, 384;
alludes to fees, 385;
and his “Golden Age,” 385;
rarity of the first edition, 497;
a postscript, _note_, 535,536.
CENTURY. first edition, 346;
last edition, 346;
its unreliable character, 347.
CHAIR, an imprisoning, 513.
CHARACTER, a universal, 433.
CHARLES II. had a curiously contrived box from the Marquis, 356.
CIPHER and character, 391;
a one-line cipher, 391;
the same refined, 392;
reduced to a point, 393;
varied significally to all the 24 letters, 394;
key to the Marquis’s cipher discovered, 552.
CLAUDIUS, of Rome, his Bucket fountain, 416.
COACH-SAVING Engine, 414,415.
CONCEITED tinder-box, 439.
CONDENSATION applied to ebbing and flowing, 419–421;
applied to drawing weights, 423–425;
applied to draught, 427,428;
applied to two globes, 456–462;
noticed by J. Bate, 480.
CONTINUALLY going watch, 508.
CONVEYANCE, a secret comb, 511;
knife, spoon, or fork, 511
CROCK, 466;
Arquebuse à, 466.
CROSS-BOW, noticed, 474;
a double, 528.
D.
DARK, to write in the, 503.
DECKS, false destroying, 405.
DEE, Dr. JOHN, his preface to Euclid, 361.
DEFINITION of the Engine, 496,549,550.
DESAGULIERS, Dr., on automata, 443;
on perpetual motion, 452,453;
account of Savery’s engine, 488–490;
charge against Savery, 489.
DICE, cheating at, 522,524.
DICING box, 521,522,524.
DISCOURSE, mute and perfect, by colours, 399;
by night, 399.
DOOR, opening either way, 502;
a conceited, 503.
DOORS, a pocket engine to open, 527.
DOUBLE drawing engine for weights, 423.
DOUBLE water-screw, 451;
cross-bow, 528.
DREBELL, CORNELIUS, noticed, 402,403.
E.
EBBING and flowing river, 419;
castle-clock, 420,421;
applied to two globes, 456–462.
ENGINE, portable in one’s pocket, 400;
ship destroying, 401;
to drive and fasten to ships, 401;
for cannon, 468;
a semi-omnipotent, 529–531.
ENGINE, a stamping, 520;
a gravel, 525;
a ship-raising, 526;
a pocket, to open doors, 527.
ENGINES of War, 468,469.
ESCUTCHEON for locks, 500.
ETTEN, VAN, describes a fountain, 481;
recommends heat, 481;
cannon, 481,482.
EVELYN, John, his Diary, 351;
his “boscoresque” grounds, 352.
F.
FALSE destroying decks, 405.
FIRE-ARROW, to shoot, 465.
FLAMSTEAD, John, astronomer, 352.
FLASK-CHARGER, 463;
powder, noticed, 474.
FLEET, to destroy a, 402.
FLYING-man, a, 504–508.
FORCE, as a technical term, explained, 483,484.
FOUNTAIN, artificial, 413,414;
De Caus, 477.
FRINGE-ALPHABET, 435.
FULTON, Robert, noticed, 404.
G.
GARDEN, a floating, 412,413;
a river in, 419.
GALLERY, a transmittible, 502.
GLOUCESTER, moveable bulwark at the siege of, 431.
GLOVE-ALPHABET, pincked, 435;
primero gloves, 521.
GRADATION, rule of, 448,449.
GRAVEL engine, 525.
GREW, Dr., his discourse, 365.
GUILFORD, Baron, Life of, 351;
was “no concealed virtuoso,” 351;
declines being proposed for the Royal Society, 352;
his acquaintances, 352;
visits Sir S. Morland, 353.
GUNS to shoot often, remark on, 472.