TO THE KING.
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SIR,
Your Majesty having been graciously pleased to permit an experiment before you at Hampton-court, of a small model of my engine described in the following treatise, and at that time to show a seeming satisfaction of the power and use of it; and having most graciously enabled me, by your royal assent to a patent and act of parliament, to pursue and perfect the same. By which your royal encouragement, it being now fully completed, and put in practice in your dominions with that repeated success and applause, that it is not to be doubted but it will be of universal benefit and use to all your Majesty’s subjects. Of whom, your Majesty being the universal patron and father, all arts and inventions that may promote their good and advantage, seem to lay a just and natural claim to your Majesty’s sacred protection.
It is upon this consideration I am encouraged, with a profound respect, to throw this performance of mine, with the author, at your Majesty’s royal feet, most humbly beseeching your Majesty, that, as it had birth in your Majesty’s auspicious reign, you will vouchsafe to perpetuate it to future ages by the sanction of your royal approbation, which is the utmost ambition of,
May it please your Majesty,
Your Majesty’s
most humble, most loyal,
and most obedient Subject,
THOMAS SAVERY.
