"perils ever fo unavoidable could move him to "astonishment, but that ftill he fet the fame face "and fettled countenance upon whatsoever ad"verse fortune befell him, and neither was he "exalted by profperity, nor dejected by adver"fity; which was the more admirable in him, "feeing he had no other to have recourfe unto, " but must bear the whole burthen upon his own "fhoulders."

"On the eleventh of May 1646," continues Sir Henry, "I was commanded by the King to "return home. After taking leave of his Majefty, I went to Newborough, where my daughter "was in the house with my brother Belafyfe; " and, after a few days reft, 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 houfe,

fcarce known of by my fervants, where I spend "many days in great filence, fcarce daring to "fpeak, or to walk, but with great heed, left I "be discovered.

"Fam veniet tacito curva fenecta pede.

"Why I should thus be aimed at, I know not, "if my neighbourhood to York makes them not "more quarrelfome. My difpofition is to love quietnefs; and fince the King willed me to go "home, I refolved indeed to keep home, if the

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"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 send 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 fhould it be impofed upon "us not to affift the King (when all means are "taken from us whereby we might affift 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 fee no reafon, unless they "would have us do a wicked act, and they, "the authors of it, out of a greater fpite, 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 juftice, which, as it ab"hors neutrality, will not admit that a man fhould falfify that truth which he hath given."

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"As for the Covenant which they would have "me take, there is first reafon that I fhould be "convinced of the lawfullncfs of it before I take

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"it, and not urged, as the Mahometans do their difcipline, 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 fo becoming an "atheift, 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 ftifle the vital fpirits, " and meeting with a crazy body, did very much "diftemper me.”

Sir Henry thus concludes his Commentaries: "Whilft I remained concealed in my own " house, I hear the Parliament began to treat with "the Scots, to have the King return back unto

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them, making fhow 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 thefe Commentaries, or Book of es Remembrance."

MARQUIS OF WORCESTER.

THIS Nobleman feems to have been no lefs 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 "fuch 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 fuch a way as may suf"ficiently instruct me to put any of them in practice."

His Book is addreffed to the King and the Members of both Houfes of Parliament. In his Dedication he thus nobly and patriótically expreffes 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 affift him;

and whatfoever God bleffeth 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 fuch taxes or burthens from them as

they chiefly grone under, and by a temporary "neceffity only imposed upon them; which being "then fupplied, will certainly best content the King

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King and fatisfie his people, which I dare fay is "the continual tenor of all your indefatigable "pains, and all the perfect demonftrations of your zeal to his Majesty, and an evidence that "the kingdom's truft is justly and defervedly re"posed in you."

That most useful and exquisite invention of the fteam-engine is affuredly hinted at in the following fection:

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"LXVII. An admirable and moft 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 fuch 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 burft, and filling it three "quarters full of water, stopping and screwing up the broken end, as alfo the touch-hole, and making a constant fire under it, within twenty"four hours it burft, and made a great crack; fo "that having a way to make my veffels fo that "they are ftrengthened by the force within them, " and the one to fill after the other, I have seen "the water run like a conftant fountain-stream forty foot high. One veffel 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 veffel of water being confumed,

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