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" 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.

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"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."

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"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

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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."

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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