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].
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].