(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 then myselfe, am capable off, they will performe wt is here asserted & 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 “Quintessence of Motion,” be No. 1, so making up Nine in all? [See pp. 530, 531.] In the next line the copyist has first written 8 and then altered it to 9, to accord with the sense of the passage.)
APPENDIX B.
[Abridged from the printed Specifications of the Patent Office.]
MARQUIS OF WORCESTER’s PATENT.—SIGNET BILL.
A.D. 1661. . . . NO. 131.