ADDENDA.

No. 5. Cipher writing. At page 398, reference is made to a Cipher letter, engraved in " The Life," at page 180. It was written by the Marquis, as now appears, at Dublin, thc 29th of September, 1645. The author having made out the character, is able to supply the following Key, or alphabet.

Curiously enough it is the document given at page 139, so that Carte must have obtained a deciphered copy as well. But the words, " the King of the assent," should be " the King of his assent." The words, " towards your Execllency" (in the 10th line) are not in the original. Also the words, " And my intention was ever to acquaint your honour herewith," should be " and mine intent was ever to acquaint you herewith." There is no signature to the original, but the written direction shows it was from the Earl of Glamorgan.

We have now authentic proof of the construction and character of at least one Cipher method of writing adopted by the Marquis, eighteen years prior to the publication of the " Century."

No. 53. An hollowing of a water-screw. A slight addition to the comment on this article will be easily understood by reference to the adjoining three figures, and probably throw some light on what the Marquis may have actually intended. Being desirous to construct a model screw, some years ago, the author designed the following

method of making one of tin or zinc, which may be easily shown by cutting out the same in thin pasteboard. Form a number of discs of thin metal like No. 1, say three inches diameter, with a hole in the centre one inch diameter, and the metal cut through at A. Rivet, solder, or otherwise fasten them together, commencing by placing No. 2 on No. 1; now secure the cut edge of A, to the similar edge of b, and so on in succession, until a sufficient pile is obtained. They may now be extended to form a screw, as in No. 3, of any desired pitch. The minuter details of construction will be obvious to any clever artizan.

APPENDIX A.

[The following is from Birch's MSS. in the British Museum, No.
4459; and portions have been quoted in the Commentary, under each article of invention named herein ]

The Qvint E'ssence of Motion, or a C'ollection of all kinds of Movements, to wit, C'ircular, to & fro; Perpendicular, upwards & downewards; side motions, to ye right & left; straight Motions, forewards & backwards with a Cireular Vehiculum, to wch any of these, may bee applicable or moveable to all ye points of ye C'ompasse: At each of wch, it will bee as powerfull as if it were fixt to one place or C'enter.

All & every of these, by highs of Art, Industry, & experimt working ye same individuall & Intrinsecall effect, without disturbance to ye other: & yet by these absolutely contrary Motions soe perform'd, most strange & incredible E'ffects may bee brought to passe, to ye. Admiration of ye greatest Mathematicians.

The knowledge of these things, rendring all things as feacible to him, yt is Master of this Art, as it is to make a C'ircle with a paire of C'ompasses, or a straight line, wth a sqvare or Ruler. They beeing adirect abstract of Arithmetick, contrived by mee. And by ye power of those, I have perfected these following Conclusions, wth some hundreds besides all experimented by mee.

(1) I can render an ordinary Watch, wch beeing once wound up, will goe constantly, during a Mans life, beeing vsed but once in 24. houres, & (though oftner look't on :) it is still ye same, & though not look't on for a weeke, still ye same, if not bruised.

(2) By this I can make a Vessel of as great burthen, as ye River can beare, to goe agt ye streame, wch ye more rapid it is, ye faster it shall advance, & ye moveable part yt workes it, may bee by one mall still guided, to take ye best advantage of ye streame, & yet to steer the boat to any point. And this E'ngine is applicable to any Vessell or Boate, whatsoever; without being therefore made on purpose; And worketh these effects. It roweth, it draweth, it driveth (: if need bee :) to passe London bridge agt ye streame at low water: And a boate lying at Anchor, the E'ngine may be used for loading or vnloading.

(3) By this I can make an Artificiall Bird to fly wch way & as long as I please.

(4) By these I can make a ball of S'ilver or G'old wch throwne into a pale or poole of Water, shall rise againe to ye perfect houre of any day or night: The superficies Of ye Water shall still show the houre distinctly, even ye minutes, if I please.

(5) By this I can make a C'hilde in a C'oach, to stop ye horses (runing away) & shall be able to secure trims. & those yt bee in ye a'oach, having a little E'ngine placed therein, wch shall not bee perceived in what posture soever ye horses draw: a C'hildes force shall bee able, to disengage them, from overturning ye C'oach or prejudicing any body in it.

(6) By these I can make one pound raise an hundred, as high as ye one pound falls, & ye one pound taken off ye 112lb shall againe desecnd, performing ye entire eff'ect of an hundred weight (i.e.) have yt force wch nothing lesse, then 112ib can have any other way. An incredible effect till seene, but true as strange.

(7) By these a C'hilde shall raise as much water 100 foot high (speaking within C'ompasse) as 6. horses can force vp any other way.

(8) By these I can stop any other Mans Motion, & render it Null, since from any point of ye C'ompasse, I can forceably & effectually cause a counterbuffe or absolute obstruction of such Motion, wch way I please all wayes, beeing indifferent to mee to worke a perfect resistance, & to countermine their Intentions, or to force their Motions a cleane contrary way.

The 9 was left out in ye Original C'opy. (9)

S'oe here yu have 9 figures represented, wch in Arithmetick, make all numbers imaginable, soe by ye helpe of these Motions, noe Manufacture, but may be demonstrated exqvisitely & demonstrably &; with great ease and facility. And noe Conclusion in ye Mathematicks or Mechanicks, but may by these bee brought to passe in great perfection & to admiration. Yet as ye most excellent tooles cannot worke alone; nor any C'ymeter is soe sharp to cut wthout an arme to guide it. S'oe without Knowledge, Art, & Ingenuitie, these are fruitlesse. But being set to worke by one of noe more Knowledge than myselfe, am capable off, they will performe wt is here assertod &; more then I could write, from one end off ye yeare to ye other.

(Note._No. 9 is here stated to be left out, but may not the first named, or " Quintessenee of Motion," be No. 1, so making up Nine in all ? [See pp. 530, 631.] In the next line the copyist has first written 8 and then altered it to 9, to accord with the sense of the passage.)

Charles R.

CHARLES THE SECOND, by the grace of God, &c., to all to whom these pnt shall come greeting.

WHEREAS our right trusty and entirely beloved conzin EDWARD, Marquesse of WORCESTER hath for many yeares applied his thought and studies, and hath beerte at very great charges, to contrive and perfect divers rare and new Invencons, contenting himselfe with the good advantag which will redound to the publique and to every particular industrious workman or curious pwerson who shall make vse of the said Invencions, the product of his extraordinary expences and ingenuity: And whereas, amongst other vsefull and new Invencions of farr greatter consequence the said Marquesse hath found out and experimente these severall new Invencons herein-after perticularly menconed (that is to say)

" 1. To make a watch or clock without string or chaine, or any other kind of winding up but what of necessity must follow if the owner or keeper of the said watch or clock will know the hour of day or night; and yet if he lay it aside several days and weeks without looking or meddling with it, it shall go very well, and as justly as most watches that ever were made.

2. And also an Invention to make certain guns or pistols, which in the tenth part of one minute of an hour may, with a flaske contrived to that purpose, be recharged, the fourth part of one turne of the barrel, which remains still fixt, fastening it as forceably and effectually as a dozen threads of any screw, which in the ordinary and usual way require as many turns.

3. Also an Invention to make an engine applicable to any coach, by which a child of six years old may secure from danger all in the caoch, and even the coachman himself, though the horses become never so unruly, the child being able in the twinckleing of an eye to loosen them from the coach, in what posture soever they draw or turne, be it ever so short, or to either hand.

4. Lastly, an Invention to make a boat that roweth, draweth, or setteth even against wind or stream, yea, both, and to any part of the compass which way soever the streame runs or wind blows, and yet the force of the wind or streame causeth its motion, nothing being required but a steersman, and whilst the boat stayeth to be loaded or unloaded, the streame or wind shall perform such work as any water mill or wind mill is capable of."

All which new Invencons being of publique vse and benefitt if the same were put in practice, and. the lawes of England haveing especially provided for the incouragement of such as are the first authors and inventors of profittable and ingenious Invencons.

KNOW YEE, that wee, of our especiall grace, certaine knowledge, and meere mocon doe for vs, our heires and sueeessors, give and grallt vnto the said Edward, Marquesse of Worcester, his executors, administrators, assignee, and assignee, full power, licenee, liberty, priviledge, and authoritye, that hee, they, and every of them, by themselves or his or their deputy and deputies, servantt, agents, and workmen, or any of them, from tyme to tyme, and at all tymes hereafter dureing the terme of yeares hereafter in these pnt expressed, shall and may vse, exercise, and imploy all and every or any of the aforesaid Invencons, before in and by there pnt perticulerly described, in such manner as to him, them, or any of them, in his and their best judgmentt and discreccons, shall seeme meete, &c., &c.

May it please yor most excellent Majestie.

Yor Majtie is hereby graciously pleased to grant vnto Edward, Marquesse of Worcester the sole vse and exercise of his several! new Invencons concerning watches or clock, guns or pistolls, coaches, and boates, for fourteene yeares according to the forme of the Statute in that behalfe made and provided, and With such other clauses as are vsuall in grants of like nature.

Signified to be yor Majestics pleasure vnder yor royall signe manual!.

T. PALMER,
15 NOV. 1661. [Record mutilated.]

[From page 559 to 567, is the reprint of a rare quarto tract of 22 pages, of which there is a copy in the library of his Grace the Duke of Beaufort; and another in the British Museum, C. 31. d. 1.}

Ax exact and true Definition of the most Stupendious Water-commanding Engine, invented by the Right Honourable (and deservedly to be praised and admired) Edward Somerset, Lord Marquess of Worcester, and by his Lordship himself presented to his most Excellent Majesty Charles the Second, our most gracious Sovereign.

As Act of Parliament thereupon granted, with great applause of both Houses, being through his Majesties particular favour passed, by special Commission to the Right Honourable the Earl of Clarendlon, Lord high Chancellour of Englaind; the Earl of Southampton, Lord High Treasurer; the Lord Roberts, Lord Privy Seal, third Officer of the Crown, preceding all Dukes, not of the Blood Royal; the Duke of Albemarle his Grace, most deservedly by his transcendent merits never to be forgotten, Lord General of his Majesties Land-forces; the Lord Marquess of Dorchester, and the Earl Lynsey, Lord High Chamberlain, by his place preceding all Earls, both likewise of the Privy Council: They passed the said Act upon the third of June, 1663. For the more expedition, and in Testimony of the great consequence thereof to the King and Kingdom.

His most Excellent Majesty having the tenth part, without deducting of Charges, freely given him by the said Lord Marquess, and there evidently accruing a considerable Profit and Benefit to every individual Subject of the whole Nation, if he either have surrounded Marish-ground to drein, or dry Land to improve; commodities to sell portable from Town to Town, and through the Countrys to the Towns by Cuts thus fed by water; or if he have (I further say) Mines wherewith to enrich himself withall, Houses to be served, or Gardens to be beautified by plentiful Fountains with little charge, yet certain in ever so dry a Summer: and there being indeed no place but either wanteth water, or is overburdened there-with, and by this Engine either defect is remediable, that is to say, water necessary to man-kind, furnished with the pleasantness thereof, procured, and the water unnecessary, as easily rejected.

Thus whole Cities may be kept Clean, Delightful and Wholesome, needing no other Scavengery then by means thereof to void their dirt, and avoid noisomness, the Cause of Infection, Sicknesses, and Contagion it self, by Stenches commonly ingendring and fomenting the same.

After the Act of Parliament, there is here set down a Latin Elogium, As an Lnglish Panegirick, both of them composed through duty and gratitude by an Antient Servant of his Lordships, presuming to begin the way to the greatest Wits and Poets to dilate upon so plentiful and admirable a Theam, and so deserving a person of King and Kingdom, and of all that ever knew him.

This Antient Servant of his Lordships, hath for forty years been an eye witness of his great ingenuity, indefatigable pains, and vaste expences in perfecting for publique service, not onely this most Stupendious Water commanding Engine, but likewise several other rare, useful, and never formerly heard of Mathematical Conclusions, of which he hath owned a Century, and "hereunto I refer you: though this alone were enough to eternalize his Name to all Ages and future times.

I think it not amiss to give further notice in his Lordships behalf, that he intends within a moneth or two to erect an Office, and to intrust some very responsible and honourable persons with power to Treat and Conclude with such as desire at a reasonable rate to reap the benefit of the same Water-commanding Engine, in any of the aforesaid useful and beneficial operations, whereof his Majesty is to reap the first fruit; and then the whole Kingdom in general, before his Lordship is re-imbursed, and his reward beginneth; whose laudable inventions Almighty God prosper with blessings on earth, and reward in heaven.

MOST GRACTOUS SOVEREIGN,

The same individual Definition of my Water-work, which I formerly presumed to put into Your Royal Hands, I again adventure to present to Your Majesty; praying Your Belief of it, as Your Majesty shall find it true by comparing it with the real Effect; which, if found punctually agreeing, Vouchsafe then not to be apt hereafter to lend a believing Ear to such persons, as Malice canseth to detract from, or Ignorance to slight what shall (though never so seemingly strange) be averr'd by me, who will never be convinced of a Falshood in Word or Deed towards tour Sacred Majesty; before whom I shall ever speak as in the presence of Almighty God, whose Vicegerent on Earth I deem You: And to Your Majesties transcentdent Judgment I submit all, and will presume to subscribe my self,

SIR,
Your Sacred Majesties
Faithfully-Devoted and Passionately
Affected, Useful, if cherished,
Subject and Servant, WORCESTER.

A Stupendious or a Water-Commanding Engiine, boundless for height, or Quantity, requiring no External, nor even Additional help, or force to be set, or continued in motion, but what intrinsecally its afforded from its own Operation, nor yet the twentieth part thereof: And the Engine consisteth of the following Particulars;-

1. A perfect Counterpoize for what Quantity soever of Water.

2. A perfect Countervail for what Height soever it is to be brought unto.

3. A Primum Mobile commanding both Height and Quantity Regulator- wise.

4. A Vicegerent or Countervail supplying the place, and performing the full force of a Man, Wind, Beast, or Mill.

5. A Helm or Stern, with Bitt and Reins, wherewith any Child may guide, order, and controul the whole Operation.

6. A particular Magazine for Water, according to the intended Quantity or Height of Water.

7. An Aquaduct capable of any intended Quantity or Height of Water.

8. A place for the Original Fountain or even River to run into, and naturally of its own accord incorporate it self with the rising Water, and at the very bottom of the same Aquaduct, though never so big or high.

By Divine Providence, and Heavenly Inspiration, this is my Stupendious Water-commanding Engine, Boundless for Height and Quantity.

Whosoever is Master of Weight,
Is Master of Force;
Whosoever is Master of Water,
Is Master of both.

And consequently, to him all Forceable Actions and Atchievments are easie, which are in any wise beneficial to or for Mankind.

Exegi Monumentum ære perennius,
Regalíque situ Pyramidum altius;
Quod non, imber edax, non Aquilo impotens,
Possit diruere, aut innumerabilis

Horace.
Annorum series, & fugatemporum:
Non omnis moriar, multáque pars mei
Vitabit Libitinam,

dum stabit Anglia. Capitolium.

Reader observe, This tells us how to keep
Our morning-Thoughts awake, while others sleep:
'Tis Art and Nature's product, scan'd by some:
Judge of it by th' Effects, then give your doom.

* 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 146 by 11 inches of surface, and was originally a street 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. 7s.

AN Act to Enable Edward Marquess of Worcester to Receive the

Beneiit and Profit of a Water-Commanding Engine by him
Invented; One Tenth part whereof is appropriated for the
Profit of the Kings Majesty, His Heirs and Successors.[15 Car. II. cap. xii. 1663]

WHEREAS The Right Honourable Edward Marquess of Worcester hath 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 hulldred 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 I`etters 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 sball 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.

In admirandam magis quàm imitandam, aut ullis Encomiis satis prtedicandam, lllustrissimi Domini Marchionis Vigornite Machinam Hydraulicam, Elogium.

Barbara Pyramidum sileat miracula Memphis,
Assiduus jactet nec Babylona labor.--HORAT.
Siste viator, depone sarcinam, & duqn reficis membræ
Lavore languida, pasce mentem novitatis avidam;
Perpende gyganteam hanc molé, æterni motus æmulan,
Naturæ & Artis cumpaginem, Coeli Solíque stuporem.
Pondera ponderibus librata híc Åthera scandunt,
Et redeunt proprias mnox 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 Artifcis industria,
Hic admiranda mentis sublimitas celeliranda venit.
CIi impares fuere tot seculis retrouetis omnes Græci,
Et Romani, humano Conatu, id præstitit nostra
Ætate unus Cambrobritannus, Divino affatu:
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.

Panegyrick to the Right Honouraole 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 C'harges, 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 Glorics 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:
Ou thou, 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 + Mia, September 6,1670.

NOBLE MADAM-
The Grace of the Holy-ghost bee with you

The greate esteeme and honour wch I have ever had for your LadysP hath allwaise made mee prompt, and willing to serve 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: Glod hath Madam put you into a happey, and florishing condition, fitt and able to serve 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 greeved 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 designee, 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 arc 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 judgment by such violent application of your fancies in such high designee and ambitious desires; the probability of offending Alm. Glod and preludising 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 tn rich and sumptuous things, whclt are not suteable to the gravity of your LadysP and present condition of Widdow-hoode and mourning for your deceased ford.

Although it bee certine, that it is a greate temptation which you are now vnder, and very dangerous and hurtful! both to your temporall and eternal! happynesse; yett I confisse that the Divel, to make his suggestion the more preualent, cloth make vse of some motives that seemo plausible, as of paying your Lords debs,offoundingwonasteryes, and the like, and that your LadysP hath the Kings favour to carry one your designee. But Madam it is certine that the King is offended with your cameing 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 yoti 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 LadysP8 inordinate designee, 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 seelie after eternall riches, and honors, which your age cloth 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 sour 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 eternal! saluation of your owne soule. Thus dear Madam I have ventured to declare a greate trueth to you, wch was before a secrets 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.
[0n 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.

Sufficient has been said respecting Copley in the " Life, Times, &c.," pages 214, 215, to give interest to any matter that can afford inform;ltion respecting him.

We here supply his auto-graph,

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, vohimc 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. honb'e. Mr. Speaker, did also assure him, that they would be ready upon all occasions to testify their sense of his service; ancl 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 thc premisses the Earl of Newcastle caused his wifw 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 sufferillgs, 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 affection i 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 thc 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. 9s.-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 213.1

A WARRANT to pay Three pounds a week to ye Earlof 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 Treary 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 Trears of Goldsmiths hall have certified the same
to havo been satisfied out of the Treary there And theis
presents or the inrollemt thereof shalbe a sufficient Warrant
and discharge aswell to you the said Comrs of our Treary
as to all others our Officers and Ministers of the Receipt of Or
Excheq. to whome it cloth 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.]

l^60. A Pardon granted to Edward Marquesse of Worcester of all suchI 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.

l661-5. 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.

l670-71. 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.

I.

The Honourable Robert Boyle, corresponding with Samuel Hartlib, the latter, under date "Duke's Place, July 24th, 1619," 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.]

The annexed particulars of the premises at Vaushall, 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[Kennington (Foxhall House) 26th Oct., 1666. His Majesty's Warrant directed to Lord Treasurer Southampton and Lord] (Surry).
Peter Jacobson.

Ashley, to grant Mr. Jacobson a Iease 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) Charless 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 date 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 lif - 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 Gleneral a. Harbard and Hugh May, dated 25th and 21th 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. 33 * feet, or thereabout, and in other parts 24* feet, or thereabout; together with all thatarea or place adjoining and fenced in, extending in length 14* 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 28* 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 Iease 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 Iease 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 Henny, 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. 13-1.
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 Usurpor.

Thatl; in this question her husbaud 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.]

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 anectote of its origin. The latest publication, in a popular form, occurs in "A History of Wonderful Inventions," whero 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 thc pot was continually being forced upwards by the vapour of the boiling water contnined 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 tho iron cover of the pot might be applied to a variety of useful purposes; and 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 aud others vaguely state it to have been his meal that was being prepared i 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 1607, 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 11, 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.[* See also the Notice in Birch's Inquiry, 1756, page 330]. 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 (Gamorgan 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."

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 presence 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, 142-3, to Rev. Mr Thomas Carte; also, " The full unswer to the Bystander, compared with the History of the Life of James Duke of Ormonde, written by the same author, September, 1742 ;" likewise several Ietters from Rev. J. Boswell, Taunton; and lastly, the following M,S. 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 1718 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 diffitulties 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.

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, 1605, 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 embraced with his wife at Galway, in February, 1650, on board a Dutch ship for Malaga. Their entry into Galway, (which had been devistated 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 l650, 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 tile 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. Pretend interview between the Marquis of Worcester and De Caus in the Bicetre, 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, 1802. After quoting the fabricated document, hc says:-" Cette piece, fabriquée par un mystificateur hardi, eut un succés prodigieux, et l'on no manqua pas de dire que lc 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 no 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 $#224; d'anciens militaires, et non un hôpital;-que Salomon de Caus n'avait jamais pensé à construire un machine utilisant les effets méchaniques de la vapeur;- enfin qu'il n'avait jamais reçu que de bons ofices de la part de Richlieu pusque dans la dedicase de son livre, La practique et démonstration de horloges il exprime sa reconnaisance pour les bontès du cardinal. Mais le ublic 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 trouve revenait de droit aux ouvres de l'imagination et de l'art. On a vu, a l'une des expositions du Louvre, un tableau de l'un de nos peintres, M. Lecurieux, dans lequel Salomon de Caus, enfermé à Biçetre, est représenté les yeux caves et la barbe hérissée, tendant les mains, à travers les barreu2: de sa prison, au couple brillant de Marion Delorme et du marquis. La lithographie et la gravure ont consacré a l'envi ce préjugé historique, le theatre[* Voir lo drame instituté Salomon de Caus, joué à I'Ambigu en 1857.] à et de roman l'ont exploité, de telle sorte que l'architecte normand tient aujourd' hui sa place à côté de Glalilée 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 manu scripts 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."

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 boyal person and dignit!, of which the Petitioner hath paid above £5,000 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 uitll, being more fit to bc 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, ancs what shall bo 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 ortler the said Lords to rcI;r to reports to your DIajesty with all convenient speed thc 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 Petitionor will ever pray, &c. &c.

[See Cal. State papers, Dom. Series, I1665-66. Edited by Mrs. M. A. E. Green, 8vo. 1864. P. 330, No. 82.]

My Lord,-At the request of my Lord Marquis of Worecster 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,

Cockpit, 3 Jun. I665.

Addressed at the baek-" For the Right Honourable Henry Lord Arlington, Principal Secretary of State these, at Osford."

[*,*6 Calendared under 1666.]

Vol. 142. No. 11, 2. Reference to the Lord Chancellor and others.

[See Cal. State Papors, Dom. Serios, 1665-66. Edited by Mrs. M. A. E. Green, 8vo. 1864. P. 189, No. 27.

State Papers. Vol. 152, No. 10.
Referenec to Sir Thomas Ingram-[Ent. Book 18, page 200.]
Marquis of Woreester.

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 21, 1665-6.

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 Call. State Papers, Dom. Series, I665-66. Edited ny 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 Engand, and tho LorD Privy Seal, the Duke of Albermarle, the Marquis of Dorchester, the Earl of Anglesey, the Earl of foutherdale, 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 33O, No. 82.]

APPENDIX K.

JOHN GLOWER.

[In the " Life, Times, &c.," page 108, a quotation is given from the poet Glower, 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 Chulmers' 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,[towaste, to throw away, destroy] a kynge maie saue,
A kyuge maie make a lorde a knaue,
And of a knaue a lorde also,
The power of a kyuge stont[standeth] so:
That he the lawes ouerpasseth.
What he will make lesse, he lasseth,
What he will make more, he moreth.

g~li.`ll'~l .~` i~ lrti'r~ 51` 1~'l'< ~s. 'i'7.lTlsl.ltCCl l~y ~tlTniral Sl1lith, Rev. B.
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2. Hydroteehnicarum. Folio. 1724.

3. Machinarum Tlydrauliearum; oder, Sehau Platz der WasserKunste. 2 vols. Folio. 1724-25.

--- 4. Statieum universale. 1726.
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MEIKEEHAH, ROBERT. Author of several works under the psoudonym of Robert Stuart: which sec accordingly.

MABKHAM, G. The Souldiers Exereise: in three Bookes. 4to. 1639.

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MYDORGE, CrAuDE. Examcn du Livre des Reoreations Mathematiques, ct de .sos problemes cn Goometrie, Meehanique, Optique, and Catoptriquo, &e. [And at tho end] Notos sur les Peereations Mathematiquos. Par D. H. P. E. M. Small 8vo. Paris, 1638.

[Sec Van Etton's work printed at Pont a-Moussou, 1629, and later oditions; Mydorge's work is a copy of their matter and engravings. Ho was an eminent mathomatician: bsrn at Paris, 1585.]

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PEACJIAM, HENRY, M.A. The eompleat Gentleman. 4to. 1627.

PERCY ANECDOTES. By S. & R. Pero . 12mo. 1820.

[Articles-Scicncc, Genius, ingenuity.]

1)HIBOSOPHICAL ~IAGAZINE. Edited by A. Tilloch. 18th Vol. 8vo. 1804,.

E)I.AT, SIR HUGH, of Lineolne's Inne. The Jewell House of Art and Nature. Printed by Peter Short, on Breadstrcct hill, at the signc 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.

Aecording to the Table of Contents-" The first Booke eonteineth divers new and eoneeited experiments."

The second of "Husbandry," the third of "Divers Chimicall

eonelusions eoneerning the art of Distillation."

The fourth Book the "Art of molding or easting." And the last part " an offer of certain new inventions."]

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The JCV.C1 IIouse of Art and Nature: containing divers rare and profitable invontions, &e. Another edition. 4to. 1653.

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POWELL, THOMAS, ~.11. Sce Humanc Industry.

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[This excoedingly rare and valuable work contains 195 well executed folio plates.]

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Magia univorsali.i naturfe et artis, SiN-o rocontlita natura]iulll et art)fieialilml rorum seiontia; oum figuris, ot inJicibus. 4 vols. 4to. 13an~bcIge, 1G77.

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SERvIi RE, GI`ortlJ3n DE.-Scc Grollier de Serviere.

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Historical and Doseriptirc Ancedotes of Stcam ffngincs and of their Invcntors. 2 vols. ;32mo. 1829,

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- 5. De re mi]itari Libri IV. Sexti Julii Frontini viri consularis
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--- 6. De re militariLibri IV. [Frontini; ~lianus, Modestus.3 G.

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