The Life, Times, and Scientific Labours of the Second Marquis of Worcester / To which is added a reprint of his Century of Inventions, 1663, with a Commentary thereon.

by Henry Dircks

May it please yo^r most excellent Majestie.

Yo^r Maj^tie is hereby graciously pleased to grant vnto Edward, Marquesse of Worcester the sole vse and exercise of his severall new Invenc̃ons concerning watches or clock^s, 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 grant^s of like nature.

Signified to be yo^r Majesties pleasure vnder yo^r royall signe manuall.

T. Palmer,

15 Nov. 1661.

[Record mutilated.]

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APPENDIX C.

WATER-COMMANDING ENGINE, ACT, Etc.

[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.]