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"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 Ma

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jefty, 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 house, "fcarce known of by my fervants, where I spend

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many days in great filence, fcarce daring to "speak, or to walk, but with great heed, left I "be discovered.

Fam veniet tacite curva fenecta pede.

"Why I fhould 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

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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.

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"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 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

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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 firft reafon that I fhould be "convinced of the lawfullness 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 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 ftifle the vital spirits, "and meeting with a crazy body, did very much distemper me."

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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 "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 laft day, upon the thirtieth of January 1648, I hear

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"Heu mihi, heu mihi: quid humani perpeffi fumus !"

"Thus I end these Commentaries, or Book of "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 inftance of a "powerful Friend, endeavoured now (the year "1655) to fet down in fuch a way as may fuf"ficiently inftruct me to put any of them in " practice."

His Book is addreffed to the King and the Members of both Houses 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 révenues in

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any confiderable way, I defire it may be em"ployed to the ufe of his people; that is, for the

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taking off fuch taxes or burthens from them as

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

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King and fatisfic his people, which I dare fay is "the continual tenor of all your indefatigable "pains, and all the perfect demonftrations of

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your zeal to his Majefty, and an evidence that "the kingdom's truft is justly and defervedly repofed in you."

That most useful and exquifite 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 fphæram 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 burft, and filling it three

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quarters full of water, ftopping and screwing

up the broken end, as alfo 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 veffels fo that

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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, " another

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