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A29918	The discovery of a proiector shewing the beginning, progresse, and end of the projector and his projects : also the projectors last will and testament, with an epitaph to his memory / by T. Brugis, Gent.	Brugis, Thomas, fl. 1640?	1641 (1641)	Wing B5222; ESTC R252	19,877	46

that there will accrew much joy and comfort unto them when they shall see the reasons of so Philosophicall profit or profitable Philosophy as on the other side said he I hold these most miserable men or rather images or Cyphers of men then very men indeed who imploy their busie time and care in idlenesse vaine Pastimes long sleepes c. as though they had no more time then might be well spent in the exalting of vertue supplanting of vice and profiting their countrey friends and consanguinity but you onely are to be esteemed and accounted happy who use your time being so great a treasure in perfecting such good Workes and rare Inventions as are both honest and profitable to whole Nations and in particular to our owne Kingdome who keepe warre against ignorance that knoweth no vertue honesty nor duty and therfore meaneth no truth for our parts let malicious envie detract never so much yet after Ages shall say that we meant really and candidly and our endeavours aimed at such substantiall markes as containe the honour fame and perpetuall memory of our Gracious Soveraigne and his Subjects health profit and pleasure These men thus tickled in the head thought that they had certainely now and never till now found out the true way of thriving protection and good forecast whereupon they all agreed that this was the onely way to become suddenly rich that ever was or could be discovered and so from thenceforth after the manner of their master they tooke upon them the name of Projectors men of the best forecast utterly disclaiming all their former Trades Professions Arts Sciences Mysteries Crafts and Occupations to all intents and purposes whatsoever It would doe you good to heare the whole packe of these together they are so excellent both for sent and cry and because you shall see what varieties of Projects they daily brought in I will endeavour to relate some of them to you whereof some have failed long since and are utterly abolish'd others make a faire shew for the present but are very likely to come to the same passe the former have done and by these that I will describe you may judge what the rest are like to be Projects 1 THe good old Scriviner hee would needs have a Monopoly were it but the sole engrossing of all Loveletters in Prose and Verse in these his Majesties Dominions of England Scotland Ireland and Wales 2 The Lawyers had a great mind to have foysted in a fift Terme and have encreased the multiplication of Officers according to the augmentation of suites of this present age above the former 3 The officer on the Banke side beside certaine small impositions devised how to entitle the chiefe Butler to the sole Licensing of all Liters and small Vessels for carrying and recarrying of all Merchandises whatsoever within the River of Thames 4 The Engineer would drive backe the Ocean and make firme land not doubting but by that and certaine hidden Treasure or Treasure Trover elsewhere whereof he had notice the world should take more notice of him very shortly 5 The Miller had invented a new Milne to grinde Corne and because the old Windmill had not onely his Sailes mounted in the Wind but also all the whole Fabricke of the Milne by which meanes it is subject to bee blowne downe with stormes hee therefore will have a Plegnicke Windmill to stand firme on the ground without any hazzard or danger of blowing downe and as the old Milne hath his crosse Sailes to be haled and turned to the Wind this Milne shall have Sayles lye round on the top of the house alwayes ready for all Winds it shall grinde with three or four pair of Stones at once and three or foure times as much Meale in one houre and of these he would have five sorts the first was called a Horsewin because it moved with the Horse and Wind the second was a Horsewater because it went by Horse and Water the third a Windwater because it went by Wind and Water the fourth a Horswinwater moved with Horse winde and Water together the fifth a Water Plegnicke which should move invisibly under the water by the Water 6 There is a new Art and Invention Metalorganicke which chiefly by the meanes of Plegnicke Instruments maketh another new kinde of Water Milnes Windmilnes Horse Milnes and hand Milns for the grinding of Corn Tanners Barke Brazill for the sawing of Woodes making of Oyles battering of Irons and Coppers and for Tuckeage and Fullage of Woollen cloth or Yellow oyled Leathers or for any other use or purpose whatsoever that other Milnes serve for and these are lesse chargeable to make set up keepe and repaire and yet more necessary and convenient then any other sort of Milnes which be now in use 7 There is a new Art and Invention of making an artificiall kinde of Water-Work for the abundant raising and mounting of Water after an easier order then those that are already used in the Common-wealth 8 There is another new Art and Invention for the making of very effectuall and beneficiall Instruments of Fishing as new kinde of Burces new kinde of Nettage and Bateage by which new devised meanes great abundance of Fish might be caught with farre lesse charges and in shorter time then by the ordinary Arts of Fishing 9 There is another new Art and Invention of making divers kindes of House-hold moveables as artificiall Doores Windowes Curtaines Presses Tables Stooles Bedsteads Hangings Chests and divers other things handsommer and more convenient then heretofore is done by the ordinary way of other stuffe 10 There is another new Art and Invention by divers new exact Mechanike Artes Mysteries Wayes and Secrets to melt make and worke Irons Steeles Leades Tinnes Coppers Brasses and such like also all kinde of Metalick concoctions as Sandmettals Ashemettals Ammels and such like also all kinde of burnt Earthes as Tyles Pavingstones Brickes and such like with Seacoale Pit-coale Earthcoale and Brush Fewell and this wayes hee could save in this Kingdome three hundred and thirty thousand pounds yeerely 11 Another new Art and Invention is for the breeding of Fowle and Pullen which he would have sold but at the rate of eight pence a couple one with another and would be worth as he sayes in this Kingdome yeerely foure hundred thousand pounds 12 Another new Art and Invention is to plant great store of Fruit trees in this Kingdome which would arise to twelve hundred thousand pounds per annum 13 Another new Art and Invention is to suppresse halfe the Pigeon houses and Pigeons kept over Gates Chambers and other places for that purpose whereby he would yeerely save in this Kingdome so much Corne as is worth two Millions of pounds at the least which they destroy and spoyle 14 Another by destroying all feathered Fowles would save yeerely in this Realme as much Corne as is worth three Millions of pounds 15 Another by destroying of Vermine would save yearely the worth of five thousand

old Vsurer one whom he knew alwayes to be stored with plenty of Plutoes Corn and tels him that he is likely to obtaine a Patent of Priviledge from his Majestie to erect certaine new Projects in his Highnesse Realmes of England Scotland and Ireland and Dominion of Wales and because he wants some small matter to expend in trials he desires him to let him have so much and he will morgage him a full part of the cleare Profits arising and acrewing thereby The Vsurer seeing him gravely clad and withall having knowne him before for a man sufficient as he imagined was content so as he had his desire and the other thought he could not better place his money Next he goes to a rich Widdow of his familiar acquaintance and shewes her whole bagges of Silver and tels her that if she would joyne in a bargaine with him that he could now have it would make them both for ever the Widdow when she had heard on his tale began almost to leape for joy and her fingers itched to be telling out the money that she should get yearely by her share and therefore with much dexterity dispatched him and thus he was througly provided towards his fundamentall expences How many Professions he left to become a Projector NExt let me shew you how many Trades Functions and Occupations he left to become a Projector for if he be a decay'd Merchant this Profession may put him in hope of procuring a Protection if an unpractised Lawyer it may be a meanes to draw good store of Clients to his Chamber if an old cast Auditor it may finde him imployment enough to cast and calculate how many thousands yearely every Sharers part comes to in the conception of any these new Projects 1 First the Lawyers were found exceeding forward and and because some of them had few Clients and lesse takings they would mend the matter by getting the grant of a fift Terme 2 The Merchant had too long trusted to Byling sleyes Bookes and finding small profit thereby hee hastens to the Court to present his suite and expect the successe of new Inventions Thirdly the Fishmongers if it were not for a poore Lent now almost lost for want of custome had but an ill yeare made up of Frydayes and Saturdayes which scarce would bee neither if it were not for some who being weary with glutting themselves with Flesh did not desire Fish for varieties sake therefore they all agreed to goe to the Westerne Seas where a certaine Projector will finde imployment for them and bring to this Kingdome forty Millions of pounds yearely Fourthly the Baker mislikes his Oven utterly and seekes to reforme it which done hee gets a Patent of Priviledge that none may doe it but himsefe but because hee found not imployment sufficient to maintaine himself in this Kingdome therfore they report he is gone into Holland Fiftly the Brewer poore melancholy man cannot tell what to say to the businesse but he findes Mault very deare and never worse which he conceives to proceed from the new Kilnes his customers cry out on him for hopping too much wherupō he is resolved to Petition his Majestie that the new Project of Kilnes may be suppressed and likewise the Patent of incorporating Maulsters and then hee is verily perswaded he shall afford us better Beere and at an easier rate Sixtly the Mettle-men Brasiers Cutlers Smithes Plummers and the Mysterie of Alchimists perceiving Trading begin to be very scarce in London are all resolved very speedily to repaire to the Forrest a Deane Seventhly next came the whole Rabble of poor Atturneyes Clerkes who were the chiefe upholders and had for the most part beene there bred up of the three-peny Ordinary in Warwicke-lane where they ascend their dining roome with a Ladder which their dyet being once served in was most ceremoniously taken away And these kinde of people having left their aforesaid Professions had a great mind to become rich on a sudden and therefore they quickly sought out our former Cozen who as I shewed you before was already become a most excellent proficient as any of his time here he makes them begin as he had formerly done first with their accidence which is Topliffes notes then to their Grammar which is Pheltons Bookes and thus they have good method for what they undertake These are they who respect not the bredth of the Church doore but bend all their endeavours and imploy all their wits to be sounding the profundity and measuring the circumference of other mens purses nay there shall not a trade profession mysterie place or office have a jadish tricke more than ordnary but they will whip the bawd and presently procure a generall reformation Moreover these poore decayed Tradesmen and the aforesaid ragged regiment of discontented Clerkes will open the whole secrets of every profession they will tell you what a quantity of Gum and Coperas the whole office spends in a yeare and what store of calve-skins passe through their hands every terme 8 I had almost forgot those that were to have had the first place in regard of their priority in Projects and these are your eminent Citizens of Blackfryers English Feathermakers Dutch Iewellers Scotch Taylors and French Shoemakers with all their forraine forces who are like to enjoy their ancient priviledges without molestation or interruption of any kinde 9 The Miller likewise had almost been slipt over yet hee cannot fadge with his old Mill it grindes not well nor fast enough he cannot grow rich with it quickly enough therefore he will have a horse-wind-water-mill and engrosse it to himselfe These and many more might be rehearsed but I will give but a touch upon every one of them whereby you may judge of the whole What successe attended his new found Mysteries to the singular comfort of the Common-wealth and the everlasting memory of so profitable a Profession THis Cozen of ours being so plentifully furnished set them all on Worke every one in his severall Function and Profession wherein they laboured with much willingnesse and dexterity that every one brought him so great variety of Art and Workemanship that he tooke upon him to supply all manner of Courtiers with these kinde of commodities Then he cals all his Associates being bold Britaines to a publique assembly drils them in the Garden and they make their set battels under the Trees in the new Walks which piece of ground was listed in and levelled for the same purpose and here he began to shew them how easie a matter it was for them to strip themselves of their meane estate and condition whereto they were collapsed and on a sodaine become mighty Projectors some should be Officers of superintendency some generall Commissioners of reformation others Dispensers of Law terrifying penalties and in generall all most deare and naturall Patrons Patricions of their mother country telling them also how easie these wayes would seeme to them if the ingenuous reasons were once looked into