" perils ever so unavoidable could move him to " astonishment, but that still he fet the fame face " and settled countenance upon whatsoever ad"verse fortune befell him, and neither was he " exalted by profperity, nor dejected by adver"sity; which was the more admirable in him, " feeing he had no other to have recourse unto, " but must bear the whole burthen upon his own "shoulders." "On the eleventh of May 1646," continues Sir Henry, " I was commanded by the King to " return home. After taking leave of his Ma" jesty, I went to Newborough, where my daughter " was in the house with my brother Belasyse; " and, after a few days rest, came home to Red "House. But fince, from York, they have " laid wait for me, to take me, and I have escaped " them, I take myself to one room in my house, "scarce known of by my fervants, where I spend " many days in great filence, scarce daring to "speak, or to walk, but with great heed, lest I "be discovered. " "Jam veniet tacito curva fenecta pede. "Why I should thus be aimed at, I know not, " if my neighbourhood to York makes them not more quarrelsome. My difpofition is to love "quietness; and fince the King willed me to go "home, I resolved indeed to keep home, if the " Lord "Lord Mayor of York, Alderman Watson, " would have permitted me quietly to live there; " but they will not fuffer me to have the benefit " of the Articles of Newarke, which gives us "liberty of three months to live undisturbed. "But they fend from York to take me rather the " first month, and all this is to try me with the " negative Oath and national Covenant: the one " makes me renounce my allegiance, the other " my religion. "For the oath, why should it be imposed upon " us not to assist the King (when all means are " taken from us whereby we might assist him,) " and not to bear arms in this war, which is now "come to an end, and nothing in all England " held for the King, I see no reason, unless they " would have us do a wicked act, and they, "the authors of it, out of a greater spite, to " wound foul and body. For now the not " taking of the oath cannot much prejudice them, " and the taking of it will much prejudice us, being contrary to former oaths which we have " taken, and against civil justice, which, as it ab" hors neutrality, will not admit that a man " should falfify that truth which he hath given." "As for the Covenant which they would have me take, there is first reason that I should be " convinced of the lawfullness of it before I take " it, and not urged, as the Mahometans do their discipline, by force, and not by reason. For " by this new religion which is imposed upon us, "they make every man that takes it guilty either " of having no religion, and so becoming an " atheist, or else a religion put on and put off, as " he doth his hat to every one he meets. " Meantime, to keep out of their hands, I am "deprived of my health, as wanting liberty to " enjoy the fresh air; for keeping close in one room, without air, did stifle the vital spirits, " and meeting with a crazy body, did very much " distemper me." Sir Henry thus concludes his Commentaries : "Whilst I remained concealed in my own " house, I hear the Parliament began to treat with "the Scots, to have the King return back unto " them, making show that they would give him " an honourable reception. I could hear of the "King's going to Holmby, to Hampton-court, "the Isle of Wight, to Whitehall, and at length, " upon his last day, upon the thirtieth of January "1648, I hear “Heu mihi, heu mihi: quid humani perpessi sumus!" "Thus I end these Commentaries, or Book of "Remembrance." : -398 MARQUIS OF WORCESTER. THIS Nobleman seems to have been no less diftinguished for the ingenuity of his mind than for his courage. He wrote a little book intitled, " A Century of the Names and Scantlings of " such Inventions as at present I can call to mind " to have tried and perfected, which (my former "Notes being loft) I have, at the instance of a " powerful Friend, endeavoured now (the year "1655) to fet down in such a way as may fuf"ficiently instruct me to put any of them in " practice." His Book is addressed to the King and the Members of both Houses of Parliament. In his Dedication he thus nobly and patriotically expresses himself: " And the way to render the King to be feared " abroad is to content his people at home, who " then with hand and heart are ready to assist him; " and whatsoever God blesseth me with to con"tribute towards the increase of his revenues in any confiderable way, I defire it may be em"ployed to the use of his people; that is, for the " taking off such taxes or burthens from them as " they chiefly grone under, and by a temporary " necessity only imposed upon them; which being " then supplied, will certainly best content the "King and fatisfie his people, which I dare say is " the continual tenor of all your indefatigable " pains, and all the perfect demonstrations of your zeal to his Majesty, and an evidence that "the kingdom's trust is justly and defervedly re" posed in you." That most useful and exquifite invention of the steam-engine is afsuredly hinted at in the following section: LXVII. An admirable and most forcible way " to draw up water by fire, not by drawing or " fucking it upwards (for that must be, as the "Philofopher calleth it, intra sphæram activitatis, "which is but at such a distance). But this way " hath no bounder if the vessels be strong enough; " for I have taken a piece of a whole cannon, "whereof the end was burst, and filling it three " quarters full of water, stopping and screwing up the broken end, as also the touch-hole, and " making a constant fire under it, within twenty" four hours it burst, and made a great crack; fo " that having a way to make my vessels so that " they are strengthened by the force within them, " and the one to fill after the other, I have feen "the water run like a constant fountain-stream "forty foot high. One vessel of water, rarified " by fire, driveth up forty of cold water; and a "man that tends the work is but to turn two "cocks, that one vessel of water being confumed, " another |