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city_n	john_n	richard_n	william_n	13,965	5	8.4905	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81106	Ars nova natandi, or, New swimming girdles that will safely support a man from drowning, in any kind of water; with many other conveniencies. By Francis Cruys, gent.	Cruys, Francis.	1698 (1698)	Wing C7447aA; ESTC R224846	4,529	18

be Esteemed and Computed at such a Rate as may be agreeable to both Parties Projector and Subscribers if they 'll be pleased to trust to the Projector 's Care and Honesty who will at any seasonable time give satisfaction to any Person willing to be concern'd Who ever Adventures but One Guinea may have the greatest Lot but if the worst of Fortune happens he will have a Girdle of half a Guinea and if that is dislik't for a Guinea more may have one of the dearest sort and the loss can be but half a Guinea But those that are willing to Adventure no more than one single Guinea are desired to pay it at Subscribing to avoid trouble and charge on both sides Those Cities Corporations or Fraternities that give Encouragement shall have Allowance for their Poor that use the Seas from the Projector according to the value and number they take off of the Tenth Part of the Profit of them For what Sums the Projector or his Assigns shall receive satisfactory Acquitances shall be given as occasion shall require With every Girdle a small Volume but an Excellent Pious Book called The Christian Monitor with a Plain and Honest Sermon affixt on this Text Vigilate Orate shall be presented Gratis by the Projector A Copy of the Instrument for Subscrip-tions WE whose Hands are hereunto under written Do Covenant Bargain Contract and Agree to and with FRANCIS CRVYS of White-Hall Gent. That for as much as he the said FRANCIS CRVYS Intends in as little time as conveniently he can pass a Patent under the Broad Seal of England for his New Invented SWIMMING GIRDLES soley to the use of him the said F. C. or his Assigns for 14 Years by Virtue of a Statute made for that Purpose c. and making a LOTTERY of 1600 Lots for 1600 Guineas all PRIZES according to the afo … ' d Page 11. ●●at 50 Guineas Value in Girdles 2 at 25 Guineas value in Girdles c. which shall be made as soon as w●th good speed they can be conveniently We will pay him at our several Subscribing One Third part in Hand as ●a●nest or Contract-Money for the several Lots we underwrite and the Second Third part at such Place or Places he shall du●e● after we have account ●●ven us by Letters or Publication in the Gazet ●oy-Boy c. of the Time and Place or Places for the Receipt thereof or within One Months time 〈◊〉 fourteen Days over and above such Advise or Publication And that in case we fail of our Second Payment of our several Second Third parts to him as aforesaid we Allow and Agree that the First Third part shall be Forfeited to him the said F. C. his Executors Administrators or Assigns as his Proemium And also that our Last Third part shall be paid in like manner within Three Days after the Lottery is drawn and on the receiving our Girdles excepting only those that Adventure but One single Guinea And the said F. C. does hereby further Agree to and with the several Subscribers that he the said F. C. shall make and deliver to all the said Subscribers the Number of Girdles stated as above if the full number of the Lottery is Subscribed for but if not full no Advantage of Lottery but to the Value of Guineas Subscribed firm substantial and good for use with all convenient speed without Fraud or Coven And does further Agree and Covenant to and with the said Subscribers that if any small accident should happen that any of those Girdles deliver'd by him in Lots should be damag'd using his Directions they shall be amended and made useful if repairable for the Fir●● time 〈…〉 and for the future at Reasonable Rate● by him the ●and F. C. or his Assigns Moreover that if any Person or Persons concern'd shall dislike their sorts of Girdles as they are Lotted they shall freely exchange the Dearer for the Cheaper or the Cheaper for the Dearer without any allowance of Loss Three of the Cheaper for One of the Dearer or One of the Dearer for Three of the Cheaper as soon as they can be conveniently made leaving their Girdles unused And lastly the said F. C. voluntarily Engages that One-Tenth part of the clear profit that shall arise to him by these Girdles as near as he can possible compute shall be disposed of in Prous and Charitable uses The Appartenances to the GIRDLE are an Attendant to carry all Necessaries dry and to be had at pleasure and may be made to contain half a Hundred weight more or less following the Man and when occasion requires its use is to be lasht on the Starbord-side of the Man and when its present use is over to follow as it did Any quantity of Liquors may be tack't to it without in Wooden Bottels without Prejudice A Pillow exceeding light to supporr the Head and to keep the Neck from Akeing if a Man should lye long on his back Light Oars for the Hands to make way very convenient A small Horn light and Cheap to give Notice to a Vessel much further than a Man's Voyce Some of these needless in a Fleet or in Company of others but highly ●seful and convenient in a single Ship and of sma●● Charge FINIS Postscript THose that are not willing to Adventure in Lottery may be Furnisht with Girdles at a Certainty paying One third part at Subscribing and the rest as aforesaid and Subscriptions will be taken by Mr. William Jordan at the Talbot in Worcester Mr. William Roberts at the Swan in Tewksbury Mr. Richard Cosnet at the Bell in Gloucester Mr. John Morgan at the White-Hart and Mr. John Olave at the Nags-head in Bristol and in most Cities and Sea-Port Towns as soon as Time and Opportunity will permit The Projector may be spoken with in Tendon at Garway's Coffee-House or on the Royal Exchange in the Turkey Walk near the North-west Corner