of this Islands Solomons-House modeled in my new Atlantis And I can hope my Lords that my midnight studies to make our Countryes flourish and out-vie European neighbours in mysterious and beneficent Arts have not so ingratefully affected your noble intellects that you will delay or resist his Majesties desires and my humble Petition in this benevolent yea magnificent affair since your honorable posterities may be inriched thereby and my ends are only to make the world my Heir and the learned Fathers of my Solomons-House the successive and sworn Trustees in the dispensation of this great service for Gods glory my Princes magnifice this Parliaments honor our Countryes general good and the propagation of my own memory And I may assure your Lordships that all my proposals in order to this great Architype seemed so rational and feisable to my Royal Soveragin our Christian Solomon that I thereby prevailed with his Majesty to call this Honourable Parliament to confirm and impower me in my own way of Mining by an Act of the same after his Majesties more weighty affairs were considered in your wisdomes both which he desires your Lordships and you Gentlemen that are chosen as the Patriots of your respective Countries to take speedy care of which done I shall not then doubt the happy issue of my undertakings in this design whereby concealed Treasures which now seem utterly lost to mankind shall be confined to so universal a piety and brought into use by the industry of converted Penitents whose wretched Carcases the impartial Laws have or shall dedicate as untimely feasts to the worms of the earth in whose wombe those deserted Mineral riches must ever lie buried as lost abortments unless those be made the active Midwives to deliver them For my Lords I humbly conceive them to be the fittest of all men to effect this great work for the ends and causes which I have before exprest All which my Lords I humbly refer to your grave and solid Judgments to conclude of together with such other assistances to this frame as your own oraculous wisdom shall intimate for the magnifying our Creator in his inscrutable providence and admirable works of Nature But before this could be accomâ—lished to his own content there arose such complaints against his Lordship and the then Favorite at Court that for some dayes put the King to this Quere whether he should permit the Favorite of his affection or the Oracle of his Counsel to sink in his service whereupon his Lordship was sent for by the King who after some discourse gave him this positive advice to submit himself to his House of Peers and that upon his Princely word he would then restore him again if they in their honors should not be sensible of his merits Now though my Lord foresaw his approaching ruine and told his Majesty there was little hopes of mercy in a multitude when his Enemies were to give fire if he did not plead for himself yet such was his obedience to him from whom he had his being that he resolv'd his Majesties will should be his only Law and so took leave of him with these words Those that will strike at your Chancellor its much to be feared will strike at your Crown and wish'd that as he was then the first so he might be the last of Sacrifices Soon after according to his Majesties commands he wrote a submissive letter to the House and sent me to my Lord Windsor to know the result which I was loath at my return to acquaint him with for alas his Soveraigns favour was not in so high a measure but he like the Phoenix must be sacrifized in flames of his own raising and so perish'd like Icarus in that his lofty design the great revenue of his Office being lost and his Titles of Honour saved but by the Bishops Votes whereto he replied That he was only bound to thank his Clergy the thunder of which fatal sentence did much perplex my troubled thoughts as well as others to see that famous Lord who procured his Majesty to call this Parliament must be the first subject of their revengeful wrath and that so unparalleld a Master should be thus brought upon the publick stage for the foolish miscarriages of his own servants whereof with grief of heart I confess my self to be one Yet shortly after the King dissolved the Parliament but never restored that matchless Lord to his place which made him then to wish the many years he had spent in State-policy and Law-study had been solely devoted to true Philosophy for said he the one at best doth but comprehend mans frailty in its greatest splendor but the other the mysterious knowledge of all things created in the six dayes work Wherefore considering his fatherlike favors to my undeservings exprest in my confession to the honorable Council and knowing the Library he left to the world viz. His great work intituled Instauratio Magna an admirable piece containing First de Augmentis Scientiarum or his advancement of Learning in nine Books written in Latine and dedicated to King Charls then Prince of Wales Secondly Novum organum sive Judica vera de interpretatione naturae written in Latine and dedicated to King James Thirdly Sylva Sylvarum or his Natural History his New Atlantis his History of Life and Death historia ventorum all dedicated to King Charles by D. Rawley sometimes his Lordships Chaplain Sermones fideles sive interioria rerum otherwise called his Essays dedicated to the Duke of Buckingham De sapientia veterum or the wisdom of the Antients dedicated to the Earl of Salisbury Lord Treasurer and Chancellour of the University of Cambridge and to the University a double dedication which was afterwards translated by Sir Arthur Gorges and dedicated to the Queen of Bohemia Dialogus de Bello Sacro dedicated to Lancelot Andrews Bishop of Winchester The History of Henry the Seventh dedicated to K. Charls His Elements of the Law Resuscitatio certain excellent Discourses Letters and the like being his Remains set forth by the said Doctor Rawley A Manual of Devotions intituled Comfortable Crums of refreshment by Prayers Meditations Consolations and Ejaculations with a confession of Faith published by the aforesaid worthy and faithfull Doctor Rawley Doctor in Divinity and one of his Majesties Chaplains I willingly then betook my self to that penance of solitude imposed me by his Lordships Fatherly advice as is exprest in my Letter to my fellow Prisoners for Debt before I should dare to attempt any of his Mineral â—rust formerly consign'd me by the favour of his affection as doth more at large appear in my humble Remonstrance to the Honourable Council the which for three years I strictly kept as if obliged by a Religious Vow from whence I was grown so sensible of other mens suffering restraint for Conscience sake as I procured the liberty of many Jesuite Priests Anabaptists Brownists Familists of love Adamites and one of the Rosie-Crucians whose humility and
An Extract BY Mr. BUSHELL OF HIS LATE ABRIDGMENT OF THE Lord Chancellor BACONS PHILOSOPHICAL Theory in Mineral Prosecutions Published for the Satisfaction of his Noble Friends that importunately desired it LONDON Printed by Tho. Leach in the Year 1660 Charles the 2d by the Grace of God King of great Brittaine France Ireland Defender of the faith HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE G. Faithorne exc DREAD SOVERAIGN SInce Providence hath been propitious to You even to a miracle and having dispell'd those grosse mists and mistakes which formerly Clouded You You now begin to Shine in Your proper Sphere beyond the lustre of your most Illustrious Predecessors which hath drawn to You not only the Addresses but the Admiration of all others lest it should be a sin in me whose heart and actions have ever been humble and loyal to Your Royal Father If I did not to testifie my gratitude make early tender of such a poor Miners mite to the recesses of Your acceptation and honour as was first intended by the Lord Chancellor Bacons Philosophical Theory to Eternize the memory of Your Royal Grand-Father in an Heroick and pious Act without any other countenance of Your Power or contribution of Your Purse than a meer vertuous patronage of this providential work of Mineral discoveries and concealed Treasures Be pleased therefore Royal Sir when Your leisure serves to cast Your favourable Eye upon a small part of the Cabalistick way of that intended practice here humbly presented by his menial Servant to Your sacred Majesty and if Your wisdome upon the perusal thereof shall approve of the same as Your two immediate Predecessors of ever blessed memory have done I doubt not at all by Gods blessing But I shall be instrumental in rendring You the greatest Prince on earth by my prosecution of my Lords Philosophical design aforesaid And as my Lord directed me to have no Partner so my humble sute to Your Majesty is That no Person whatsoever should share with You in the glory of this Philosophical design or frustrate the successe thereof by their self-respects as King Henry the 7th lost the benefit of the West-Indies by following the counsel of such as obstructed his pursuing of that great affair which this Nation hath ever repented in vain But fearing the multiplicity of Your more urgent occasions might not give Your Majesty time to read the whole Narrative of all proceedings in that abridgment Therefore I have thus Epitomiz'd the Way to which I have annexed my Lords chief Ends therein propounded by one of the Fathers of his Solomons House under a continued Prosopopeia and I have discovered withall in the cloze what hath hitherto obstructed my happy progresse in the same all which that your sacred Majesty would be pleased to peruse is the only boon that he humbly craves who hath no other ambition but to subscribe himself as he is in duty bound Your Majesties Beads-man till death Thomas Bushell My Lords and Gentle-men THe most probable expedient to discover and obtain the Treasures of these three Kingdoms that hitherto have layen hid and which statu quo were freely granted by King Iames to the Lord St. Albans towards the erecting and maintenance of that Philosophical College called his Solomons House described in his new Atlantis according to that Lords Cabalistick directions as a way more safe certain and innocent than those of Necromantick Charms Magnetick Rods Inchanted Circles or the corrupt aids of Avaritious mens Purses is first to find out if possible such a regenerate man as is of an humble ingenuous and refined Soul a vertuous mind and a clear intellect so sensible of and truly abhorring all worldly vanity that he had rather be dissolv'd than live any other way than that of penitential Devotions for sins of omission and commission chiefly because they aggravated the tortures of his Saviours Crucifixion let his fastings be mixed with proportionable obedience and self-denial that his fervent Prayers may ascend as incense and his humble Addresses as an evening Sacrifice before the Mercy-Seat of that Omnipotent Deity which inhabits Eternity till by his indefatigable and zealous importunity he hath freely obtained one true grain of lively Faith in his Creators Mercy and his Redeemers Merits and then as in Mat. 17. ver 20. Christ tells his foyled Disciples such a one so fortified and accomplished with Faith and the inseparable concomitants thereof Hope and Charity is not only able to command the rocky Mountains to remove themselves from their mineral Beds that they may discover their riches for pious uses but also to compel the stubborn and subterranean spirits which frequently fright the industrious Miners from their innocent labours to avoid their dismal habitations in the mineral Maeanders and thereby facilitate their honest indeavours which their cursed obstruction had too long made frustrate And further for the illustrating of Gods Glory to constrain those wretched fiends that so frequently fright frail mortals when they are searching for treasure to discover all such concealments as the provident care of well-meaning Parents fallen into dangerous times hath hid as a Patrimony for their surviving Children but being suddenly taken out of this world either by a common calamity or by the Treachery of some false friends whom thâ—y trusted were thereby prevented of all possible means for them to reveal the same and yet who hath not heâ—…d if not observed that Providence hath so ordered the matter that not only the Murther and Murtherers have been strangely disclosed but even some of those laps'd Angels professed enemies to the good of man-kind have both used to haunt the places where such Treasures were hid and also by Alarming the Issue or the Allies of the so deceased with dreadful Noyses horrid Apparitions and ghostly Spectrums they have if I may so speak even terrified them into a kind of Sanctimony of life and put them upon the pursute by Prayer and other holy means of such a lively Faith and so undaunted a Resolution that ere long they have taken heart of Grace as we say and with Christian courage not only questioned but confronted those formidable Gobblins and chased them at least in a seeming flight to their uncouth habitations which as it is probably conjectured are the Cryptick lodgings of such hidden Treasures or the fatal Dormitories of such unfortunate Persons as by wilful murther and Tragical violence being hurryed hence in bloody winding-sheets have been secretly interr'd by their conscious Assassinates to prevent what in them lay the temporal vengeance of impartial Justice for it cannot be constantly doubted much less denyed by the most Atheistical Sceptick that no sooner the same hidden Treasure is utterly lost from the knowledge of mankind but that the spirit of delusion takes its possession and he who is absolute Monarch of the Universe Father of Spirits to whom the good Angels are so many Ministers and the evil ones are subject perforce can command to do his will
with the grounds and reasons at large which induc'd him to it that the Parliaments wisdom might take a more present care of the whole matter rather than the glory of such a work should perish for want of a right understanding And if it may seem to any Person of that Honorable House too great a favor for me to have my Articles made good I shall humbly pray no more than that their Justice may protect my Mineral adventures at Rowpits upon the Forest of Mendip and other deserted places and to defend my Feoffees in trust who have resolved to make a true trial of my Lords Philosophy in that affair since most Men reputed me not well in my wits for attempting the seeming impossibility of recovering their drowned conditions otherwise those publick spirits will doubtlesse inevitably suffer From whence God lead your Lordship by the hand and all others that will take the pains to read the ensuing Treatise for then my Genius invites me to believe I shall have their unanimons consent to an irrevocable Act like the Medes and Persians which is and shall be the Prayer of Your most Humble Servant Tho. Bushel Right Honorable GRatitude having obliged my Soul to serve such a surviving Friend as your Lordship hath ever been to the memory of my Lord Bacons Philosophy and now finding general fame to give out that the vicissitude of State Affairs are become dubious ever since the French Embassie and other unbyassed occurrences were made publick I held it my duty to tender the conception of your humble Servant how to manage a safe retreat for your Lordships perpetual Honor which is in a word my Lord to get the start of some mens understand compliance by casting the faculties of your divine part upon the Heroick nature of your Princes clemency and with the same sense of your Lordships unparalleld language in the publick Senate to lead the judicious to the like obedience rather than the effusion of more bâ—ood should be spilt by the dangerous consequence of a forein Invasion and then it were impossible if such an Act of gallantry proceeding from those pious Principles might spring from your Lordships undaunted Spirit but that it must meet with the splendor of a Princes favor and mercy in their greatest glory I write not this my Lord from my own head but that I have often heard my Lord Bacon discourse the like upon the same Subject and that the way to out-viâ—… Princes rage in hiâ— conceived wrong by a politick prud nce was to blunt the edge of his revengeful Sword with such an opportune submission as might add to his greater Honor in pardoning the crime than punishing the offence and especially when his Conscience must bear him witnesse he is restored to three Kingdoms by such a stratagem from the wisdom of your Lâ—rdshâ—ps and might in time by the same scales know the persons that betrayed his Cabinet Counsels which were a work without compare and as miraculous as meritorious before God and Man for my Lord his Royal Father would frequently aver that it was below his nature to take revenge upon an open Enemy but th se which betrayed the secrets of his trust he could not tell what to say in the punishment of them unlesse God should direct his heart but must leave such to the stroak of divine Iustice In a word my Lord I have nothing to do with Court-holy-water nor State Policy but through Providence and your Honors assistance to Crown my old Master the Lord Viscount Verulam King of Philosophy for his unparalleld knowledg in Mineral discoveries and to support thereby the magnificent Monument of his Atlantis above those that endeavour to lay his Honor in the dust without the participant purse of any person than the breath of such Senators as should proceed from your Lordships abilities and therefore I shall humbly beg pardon for this bold Address and remain as obliged Your Lordships ever devoted Servant Thomas Bushell Mr. Bushel's Mineral Overtures Right Honourable ACcording to your commands I do here present your Lordships with a brief Narrative of the Lord Chancellor BACONS directions to my self for the management of his Mineral experiments in case his own Death should stop his intended progresse therein before he could practically discover the true generation and spreading qualities of Minerals I being then his Menial Servant King IAMES having already promised to grant his Lordship all his own discoveries of Mines Royal and also of any drowned Lands or deserted works by him to be recovered within the space of Forty years paying him the fifth according to the usual custome of the King of Spain in his Mines of the West-Indies and of other Princes after the expiration of fourteen years first granted gratis towards the great â—arge of his new Invention to facilitate the obtaining the Mineral Riches of this Land occasioned by a learned Speech his Lordship hath lately made to his Majesty Count GUNDAMORE and divers of the Nobility being present concerning the rise and magnificent growth of the China Trade wherein by a perfect demonstration he made it appear that the invention of one man by his help ng the Defects of Nature with the Materials of Art and the patience of three Ages industrie to bring its concoction to perfection became the great Revenew of that Empire and hath been for this thousand years the only honour of that people as well as their livelyhood and Patrimony In which he seriously protested That his utmost ambition in the affairs of this world affected no greater glory than to leave the real fruits of his best service to his Soveraign Honour to his Name his written Works to Posterity and by such Treasures as his own Industry should raise out of his Mineral expeâ—iments to accomplish the noble Design and Fabrick of his SOLOMONS House described in his new Atlantis annexed to his Naâ—ural Historie seeing that the Corporation of the Mines Royal instituteâ— by his Majesty consisting of Lords and Gentlemen of qualâ—ty produced but wâ—ak or very small advanâ—ages to the Revenew of the Crown or the publick good although his Lordship did then really bâ—lieve it very possible for himself if qualified thereto by his Râ—gal Power to bâ—ing it so to passe in one Age that the barrenest Mountains in this Nâ—tion should produce such store of Treasure by their Royal vâ—ins as we need not envie the King of Spain's felicity in his Potozi or any other Mines in America thereupon by way of similitude added this That as a State whose present dimensions were but small might happily serve as a foundation for an ample Monarch if all regard of private propriety were laid aside and every Member thereof would diligently devote his particular care to the publick benefit even so it mighâ— happen in the advancement of the discoveries of those Mineral Riches supposed to lie hid in the bosomes of the most barren Mountains when the whole industry of the many several persons
employed should be concentrick in that service and act as the united faculties of one man their hearts being free from all ends and ambitious thoughts save such as conduced to Gods glory and the Common good But so soon as his Lordship had vouchsafed to acquaint me concerning his proceedings with his Majesty in thiâ— Affair he bade me call to mind the many fatherly favours which he had conferred upon me as pious motives to retard my unripe years from hazardous travels and having professed to his Lordship that I could not with any content resolve to live in my Native Country ever since I understood that younger Brothers by the Law of the Land were not participant in their Fathers Inheritance but that they were by the ways of Vertue and Industry to attend the Almighties bounty for acquiring such fortunes as primogeniture had conferred upon their elder Brothers or otherwise to live in an inferior or servile condition and then instanced his acceptance of me for his Servant at fifteen yâ—ars of age upon my own Address his clearing all my debts three several times with no smaller sum in the whole than three thousand pound his preferring me in Mariage to a rich Inheretrix and thereupon not only allowing me four hundred pounds per annum but to ballance the consent of her Father in the Match promised upon his honor to make me the Heir of his knowledge in Mineral Philosophy saying That if thâ—se real expressions of his love could but find the due retaliation of my gratitude he might then assure himself of the hoped Harvest of two lives tâ— one inferring that although Fathers are bound to provide for their Children and worse than Infidels if they do not yet there is no such injunction upon Masters in relation to their Servants and therefore where a Masters pious bounty transcends a Fathers natural love there that so obliged servant must appear most prodigiously ingratefuâ—l which shall not with much zeal and faithfulnesse discharge the duty of a surviving Trust seriously adding this Bushel I must now use you my intended Instrument in the prosecution of my Mineral Designs as Politick Princes do their nearesâ— Servants in their Cabinet Counsels who putting their Masters conceptions into act if they take well with the people must own no more of them than the approbation thereof and the admiration of their Princes wisdom therein but in the contrary effect to salve their Princes honour they must sadly acknowledge the matter wholly their own an Error in their Couâ—sâ—ls and a crime in themselves So you if by my Theory you prosper in your practick must attribuâ—… all the honour of the whole work to me If othe wise you must gratefully preserve my reputation by acknowledging your own mâ—sfortune in mistaking and misacting my directions and so you shall be sure to gain the Title and Character of a gratefull Servant in eiâ—her event And upon my serious â—rotesta ion that I would faithfully obey all his Commands his Lordship advised me not to follow the practice of our Predecessors in their tedious and expensive ways of sinking Airy shafts at every forty fathoms nor to imitate the antient Romans by diâ—ging Mines through deep and open Trenches but by cutting Addits into the Mountains at their lowest Level and by supplying their defect of Air with Pipe and Bellowes being an invention utterly unknown to former Agâ—s And for my first experience to begin with those five Mountains in Cardiganshire reported by Sir FRANCIS GODOLPHIN and a Portugues to be rich in Silver and Lead But if I should by my practick part fail in my deeper search either for want of convenient Air or a sufficient Vein of Ore his Lordship commanded me to persue his directions in that particular no further yet if my happy successe should prove his Theory true in this as also in the several wayes of separating the Metal from the Dross and the Silver from the Lead that then I should not fail to illustrate the innocent Trade of the poor Miners by making his Lordship the Patron of their Profession nor neglect to dedicate the whole profit which Divine Providence should reveal in the one to find out the Riches of the other and above all that I should take special care to elect such honest Agents for the carrying on this innocently profitable work as their vertuous ambitions should aim at no by respect beyond the publick good of their Country they having a competent salary for their modest maintenance But these Embrions proving abortive by the death of that Lord in the Reign of King Iames were the sad motive which perswaded my pensive retirements to a three years solitude until divine providence calling me to a more active life I discovered and perfected Natures ingenuous designs upon my Rock at Enston in Oxfordshire by making it such a delightful Grotto that the same of it invited the late King Charles to a volunrary visit By which means I not only became known to his Majesty but also found an apt occasion to discourse the above-mentioned Proposals of the Lord BACONS Philosophy who so well approved of my Ingenie upon that place and his Lordships Mineral Model that he presently promised me the assistance of his Mint according to the president of other Princes when I should find silver worth the coyning and likewise the accommodation of my own Lead so discovered Custom-free for 21 years as also my choise of renting the whole Custom of that Commodity at the rate of tâ—e Farmers Books calculated by the account of seven years Audit to put the speculations of my Masters Theory into practice These high favors of the late King conferred on my self in memory of that Lords eminent abilities and this his admonition before the Earl of Dorset to me at York That if in the War then like to ensue I should not prove real and active in his service and cordial in the trust reposed in me by my quondam Lord I should justly merit the Title and reputation of a Knave which did then provoke me forwards in my undertakings with a most zealous observation of my obliged fidelity to both till his Majesty at Causam dis-ingaged me in the first that he might enable me as much as in him lay to perform the latter by his gracious letter of permission to surrender Lundy at my own charge fortified and maintained without injury or violence to any upon such Articles as might take off my delinquency and restore me to my Estate and the grants of my Mines Mints and Customs rather than the forementioned design so well digested by my honorable Lord for the general good should be made fustrate by my incapacity to prosecute I being the only man made privy to all those his Mineral speculations and some other of his Philosophical Lucubrations not yet to be promulged until my proficiency and successe in the Mines shall enable me thereto since he in the depth of his wisdom thought it not only the
so he left me Having assigned a value of about two thousand Duckets for a Bounty to me and my fellows For they give great Largesses where they come upon all occasions The Impressa of Mr. Bushels Golden Medal FRA BACON VICECO S CT ALBAN ANGLIAE CANCELL DEVS EST QVI CLAVSA RECLVDIT THO BVSHELL THe Lord St Alban's Atlantis is a Magazine of compendious but sublime documents to inrich a Common-wealth with universal Notions as far above a vulgar capacity as the Empyreal Heavens are the Earth for which cause himself stiled it his Solomons house or six daies work But the way to advance a proportionable Revenue proposed by his Philosophical Theory to accomplish the vast design of such a Magnificent Structure without a Princes Purse will seem as abstruse to some acute apprehensions as the immortal descent of the Soul to animate the Embryon in the Womb yet if any responsible persons are incredulous of Mr. Bushell's proceedings to perfect the said Lords Philosophical Theory in Mineral discoveries according to his undertakings let them or any other that have heretofore given him credit upon the late Kings score or his own repair to the assurance Office at the Royal Exchange where they shall have tendered by Friends of his Medals of Gold by way of Mart to raise 1000 l. per week according to the tenor of a Bill exprest at large in his Abridgement of the Lord Chancellor Bacon's mineral Prosecutions so soon as it is setled in Parliament for their encouragement and himself hath liberty to attend Providence in the successe FINIS Post-Script to the Judicious Reader READER IF thou hast perused the foregoing Treatise of the Isle of Bensalem wherein the Philosophical Father of Solomons House doth perfectly demonstrate my Heroick Masters the Lord Chancellour Bacons design for the benefit of mankind then give me leave to tell thee how far that illustrious Lord proceeded in the practical part of such his Philosophical Notions and when and where they had their first rise as well as their first Eclipse their first rise as I have heard him say was from the noble nature of the Earl of Essex's affection and so they were clouded by his fall although he bequeathed to that Lord upon his presenting him with a secret curiosity of Nature whereby to know the season of every hour of the year by a Philosophical Glass placed with a small proportion of Water in his Chamber Twitnam Park and its Garden of Paradise to study in But the sudden change of his Royal Mistresses countenance acting so Tragical a part upon his only friend and her once dearest Favourite he likewise yielded his Law-studies as lost despairing of any preferment from the present State as by many of his Letters in his Book of Remains appears so that he retired to his Philosophy for some few months from whence he presented the then rising Sun Prince Henry with an experiment of his second Collections to know the heart of Man by a sympathizing stone made of several mixtures and usher'd in the conceit with this ensuing discourse Most Royal Sir Since you are by birth the Prince of our Country and your vertues the happy pledge to our posterity and that the seigniory of Greatnesse is ever attended more with flatterers than faithfull Friends and loyal Subjects and therefore needeth more helps to discern and prie into the hearts of the People than private persons Give me leave noble Sir as small Rivulets run to the vast Ocean to pay their tribute so let me have the honour to shew your Highnesse the Operative quality of these two triangular stones as the first fruits of my Philosophy to imitate the pathetical motion of the Load-stone and Iron although made up by the Compounds of Meteors as Star-shot jelly and other like magical ingredients with the reflected beams of the Sun on purpose that the warmth distilled unto them through the moist heat of the hand might discover the affection of the heart by a vis ble sign of their attraction and appetite to each other like the hand of a Watch within ten minutes after they are laid upon a marble Table or the Theatre of a Looking-glasse I write not this as a feigned story but as a real truth for I was never quiet in mind till I had procured those Jewels of my Lords Philosophy from Mr. Archy Prim-Rose the Princes Page But the sudden death of that Prince give new cause of sorrow to the whole Nation as well as to that Lord whereupon his Lordship dedicated his Advancement of Learning to his Brother Charles the surviving Prince and to his prudent Father King Iames his Novum Organum who so much approved of his transcendent knowledge and singular eloquence as in his Royal Wisdome he made him Lord Chancellor during life and Lord Protector during his absence in his Scotish Progresse and though this eminent greatnesse gave many advantages to envious tongues yet when his Lordship had revealed the most mysterous parts of his Philosophy to his Master the King and delivered him his opinion concerning the disposition of Mr. Suttons charity exprest also in his Remains he thereby so indulged his Majesties Genius as he prevailed with him to call a Parliament chiefly for his Majesties own pressing occasions and to confirm this Academy of learning in his way of Mining by an Act of State upon hopes of perfecting all other expencefull tryals by the said Revenue and to that purpose his Lordship had prepared the heads of a Speech to the said Parliament which were as followeth My Lords and Gentlemen the King my Royal Master was lately graciously pleased to move some discourse to me concerning Mr. Suttons Hospital and such like worthy foundations of memorable piety which humbly seconded by my self drew his Majesty into a serious consideration of the Mineral Treasures of his own Territories and the practical discoveries of them by way of my Philosophical Theory which he then so well resented that afterwards upon a mature digestion of my whole design he commanded me to let your Lordships understand how great an inclination he hath to farther such a hopeful work for the Honor of his own Dominions and the publick good as the most probable means to relieve all the poor thereof without any other stock or benevolence than that which divine bounty should confer on their own industries and honest labors in recovering all such drowned Mineral works as have been or shall be therefore deserted And my Lords all that is now desired from his Majesty and your Lordship is no more than a gracious Act of this present Parliament to authorise them therein adding a mercy to a munificence which is the persons of such strong and able petty Felons who in true penitence for their Crimes shall implore his Majesties mercy and permission to expiate their offences by their assiduous labors in so innocent and hopeful a work For by this unchâ—rgeable way my Lords have I proposed to erect the Academical fabrick