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

Water-commanding Engine, named in a letter to the Earl of Lotherdale (January 1660), [223]; the Marquis alludes to, expecting an Act for it, [223]; his “truly significant definition,” [224]; earliest distinct reference, [225]; its progress, [253]; application to Parliament, [253]; the Act passed, [256]; one-tenth granted to Charles II. [257]; the same remitted to the Marquis on surrender of a warrant granting him lands to the value of £40,000, [257]; (and note), [257]; seen by Sorbière, [264]; the public prove sceptical, [268]; intelligence respecting it, [268]; Act, and posting bills respecting, [291]; set up at Vauxhall, [291]; seen by Dr. Hook, [292]; its practical character, [300]; seen by Cosmo de Medici the Third, at Vauxhall, [302]; mentioned in 1670, in a letter, [303]; latest intelligence, [304]; the Marquis’s principal invention, [305]; means taken for publishing it, [305], [306]; his three accounts of it, [306]; generally unnoticed by contemporaries, [306]; its superiority, [307]; it was in advance of the age, [307]; operations to give it publicity, [336]; a model to be deposited, [336]; and one to be buried, [337]; summary of work at Vauxhall, [337]; probable learned and wealthy visitors, [338], [339]; Act for, [Appendix C.]

Watkins, Sir David, £20 loan, [214].

Wheel, the great, experiment at the Tower, [24], [25], [26].

Willis, Mr., his inventions, [264].

Williams, Sir Trevor, his siege operations, [149]; seized 80 horses, [149].

William, Lord Herbert, at Oxford, [6]; early decease, [6].

Winter, Sir John, Forest of Dean, [63]; united with Lord Herbert. [63]; deserts and spoils the Forest, [64].

Wood, Ant. À. his account of William Lord Herbert, and his brother Henry Somerset, at Oxford, [6]; their ages, [6], [7]; remarks on Henry, Lord Herbert, [11]; on his religion, [11].

Woodcroft, Bennet, F.R.S. list of copies of Documents in his possession respecting the Marquis of Worcester, [Appendix F.]; Cromwell’s warrant, ibid.

Worcester, Edward, Somerset, 4th Earl of, rumour of his son’s intended marriage, [1]; christening of Sir Robert Sydney’s daughter, [2]; waiting on Queen Elizabeth, [2]; his christening present, [2]; his son Henry Lord Herbert’s marriage, [2], [3], [4], [5]; invested with Order of the Garter, [7]; Keeper of the Privy Seal, [7]; his death, [8]; his autograph, [12]; his horsemanship and athletic acquirements, [13]; named, [299].