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A67034	An exact and true definition of the most stupendious water-commanding engine, invented by the Right Honourable (and deservedly to be praised and admired) Edward Somerset, Lord Marquess of Worcester, and by his Lordship himself presented to his most Excellent Majesty Charles the Second, our most gracious Sovereign ...	Worcester, Edward Somerset, Marquis of, 1601-1667.; England and Wales. Private Acts. 1663. 15 Cha.II.c.12.	1663 (1663)	Wing W3532A; ESTC R201911	4,936	24

C R HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT AN exact and true Definition of the most Stupendious Water-commanding Engine invented by the Right Honourable and deservedly to be praised and admired Edward Somerset Lord Marquess of Worcester and by his Lordship himself presented to his most Excellent Majesty Charles the Second our most gracious Sovereign An Act of Parliament thereupon granted with great applause of both Houses being through his Majesties particular favour passed by special Commission to the Right Honourable the Earl of Clarenden Lord High Chancellour of England the Earl of Southampton Lord High Treasurer the Lord Roberts Lord Privy Seal third Officer of the Crown preceding all Dukes not of the Blood Royal the Duke of Albemarle his Grace most deservedly by his transcendent merits never to be forgotten Lord General of his Majesties Land-forces the Lord Marquess of Dorchester and the Earl Lynsey Lord High Chamberlain by his place preceding all Earls both likewise of the Privy Council They passed the said Act upon the third of June 1663. For the more expedition and in Testimony of the great consequence thereof to the King and Kingdom His most Excellent Majesty having the tenth part without deducting of Charges freely given him by the said Lord Marquess and there evidently accruing a considerable Profit and Benefit to every individual Subject of the whole Nation if he either have surrounded Marish-ground to drein or dry Land to improve Commodities to sell portable from Town to Town and through the Countrys to the Towns by Cuts thus fed by water or if he have I further say Mines wherewith to enrich himself withall Houses to be served or Gardens to be beautified by plentiful Fountains with little charge yet certain in ever so dry a Summer and there being indeed no place but either wanteth water or is overburdened therewith and by this Engine either defect is remediable that is to say water necessary to man-kind furnished with the pleasantness thereof procured and the water unnecessary as easily rejected Thus whole Cities may be kept Clean Delightful and Wholesome needing no other Scavengery then by means thereof to void their dirt and avoid noisomness the Cause of Infection Sicknesses and Contagion it self by Stenches commonly ingendring and fomenting the same After the Act of Parliament there is here set down a Latin Elogium an English Panegirick both of them composed through duty and gratitude by an Antient Servant of his Lordships presuming to begin the way to the greatest Wits and Poets to dilate upon so plentiful and admirable a Theam and so deserving a person of King and Kingdom and indeed of all that ever knew him This Antient Servant of his Lordships hath for forty years been an eye witness of his great ingenuity indefatigable pains and vaste expences in perfecting for publique service not onely this most Stupendious Water-commanding Engine but likewise several other rare useful and never formerly heard of Mathematical Conclusions of which he hath owned a Century and thereunto I refer you though this alone were enough to eternalize his Name to all Ages and future times I think it not amiss to give further notice in his Lordships behalf that he intends within a moneth or two to erect an Office and to intrust some very responsible and honourable persons with power to Treat and Conclude with such as desire at a reasonable rate to reap the benefit of the same Water-commanding Engine in any of the aforesaid useful and beneficial operations whereof his Majesty is to reap the first fruit and then the whole Kingdom in general before his Lordship is re-imbursed and his reward beginneth whose laudable inventions Almighty God prosper with blessings on earth and reward in heaven Most Gracious Sovereign THe same individual Definition of my Water-work which I formerly presumed to put into Your Royal Hands I again adventure to present to Your Majesty praying Your Belief of it as Your Majesty shall find it true by comparing it with the real Effect which if found punctually agreeing Vouchsafe then not to be apt hereafter to lend a believing Ear to such persons as Malice causeth to detract from or Ignorance to slight what shall though never so seemingly strange be averr'd by me who will never be convinced of a Falshood in Word or Deed towards Your Sacred Majesty before whom I shall ever speak as in the presence of Almighty God whose Vicegerent on Earth I deem You And to Your Majesties transcendent Judgment I submit all and will presume to subscribe my self SIR Your Sacred Majesties Faithfully-Devoted and passionately-Affected Vseful if cherished Subject and Servant WORCESTER A Stupendious or a Water-Commanding Engine boundless for Height or Quantity requiring no External nor even Additional help or force to be set or continued in motion but what intrinsecally is afforded from its own Operation nor yet the twentieth part thereof And the Engine consisteth of the following Particulars 1. A perfect Counterpoize for what Quantity soever of Water 2. A perfect Countervail for what Height soever it is to be brought unto 3. A Primum Mobile commanding both Height and Quantity Regulator-wise 4. A Vicegerent or Countervail supplying the place and performing the full force of a Man Wind Beast or Mill. 5. A Helm or Stern with Bitt and Reins wherewith any Child may guide order and controul the whole Operation 6. A particular Magazine for Water according to the intended Quantity or Height of Water 7. An Aquaduct capable of any intended Quantity or Height of Water 8. A place for the Original Fountain or even River to run into and naturally of its own accord incorporate it self with the rising Water and at the very bottom of the same Aquaduct though never so big or high By Divine Providence and Heavenly Inspiration this is my Stupendious Water-Commanding Engine boundless for Height and Quantity Whosoever is Master of Weight Is Master of Force Whosoever is Master of Water Is Master of both And consequently to him all Forceable Actions and Atchievments are easie which are in any wise beneficial to or for Mankind Exegi Monumentum aere perennius Regalíque situ Pyramidum altius Quod non imber edax non Aquilo impotens Possit diruere aut innumer abilis Annorum series fuga temporum Non omnis moriar multáque pars mei Vitabit Libitinam dum stabit Anglia Capitolium Horace Reader observe This tells us how to keep Our morning-Thoughts awake while others sleep 'T is Art and Nature's product scan'd by some Judge of it by th' Effects then give your doom To God alone be all Praise Honour and Glory for ever and ever Amen WORCESTER An Act to Enable Edward Marquess of Worcester to Receive the Benefit and Profit of a Water-Commanding Engine by him Invented One Tenth part whereof is appropriated for the Benefit of the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successors WHEREAS The Right Honourable Edward Marquess of Worcester hath affirmed to the

Kings most Excellent Majesty That he hath by long and indefatigable pains and study and with great and vast expences invented and found out a Secret in Nature never heretofore discovered being a Water-Commanding Engine of greater force and advantage then hitherto hath been known and being no Pump or Force now in use nor working by any Suckers Barrels or Bellows heretofore used for the raising and conveying of Water which said Engine will yield very great benefit and advantage to the Common-wealth by draining of all sorts of Mines Marish Oazie or Overflown Grounds by furnishing of Rivers and Cutts with water to make them Navigable and Portable from Town to Town by improving of Lands wanting water by the supplying and bringing in of water into the City of London or into any other places and by divers other ways and means whereby great Encouragement will be given to the People of this Nation to undertake to work rich Mines to drain and gain in many Marish Oazie and surrounded Grounds which hitherto they have been deterred to endeavour the improvement of by reason of the vast sums of money which must be necessarily expended by the draining and conveying away the water out of the same And whereas the said Edward Marquess of Worcester is willing and contented to setle a tenth part of the accruing benefit thereof upon His Majesty His Heirs and Successors for the term of years after in this Act mentioned To the end therefore that the said Edward Marquess of Worcester may have and enjoy the full and particular benefit and profit of this his new Invention with a Prohibition to all others to make use thereof for ninety and nine years May it therefore please the Kings most Excellent Majesty That it may be Enacted And Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by the Authority thereof That it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Edward Marquess of Worcester His Executors and Assigns from time to time and at all times hereafter during the said ninety and nine years to have receive take and enjoy to his and their own proper use and uses the Profit Benefit and Advantage which shall any ways arise happen or accrue by means or reason of the aforesaid Engine and new Invention And be it also Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That one full tenth part of the accruing Benefit thereof without deduction or abatement for or by reason of any Charges or Expences whatsoever shall be paid and answered and accounted for by the said Edward Marquess of Worcester his Executors Administrators and Assigns for His Majesty His Heirs and Successors into His Majesties publick receipt of Exchequer yearly and every year at the Feasts of Saint Michael the Arch-angel and the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary during the said Term of Ninety nine years the first payment to be made at the Feast of Saint Michael the Arch-angel which shall be in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred sixty and three And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that if any Person or Persons whatsoever within his Majesties Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging do or shall at any time hereafter during the said term Counterfeit Imitate put in practice or erect the said Water-commanding Engine without the consent and License first had and obtained in writing from the said Edward Marquess of Worcester or his Assignes That it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Edward Marquess of Worcester or his Assignes with his or their Agents or Work-men by a Warrant from the Lord Chief Justice or from any two Justices of Peace within the respective County or Liberty where such search shall be made and assisted by the Constable or Constables neer adjacent to enter into or upon the said place or places where the said Work or Engine shall be made or erected And upon discovery of any such Engine to proceed against the said Person or Persons by Action Information or Indictment and after Conviction thereof in due course of Law in any Assizes or publique Sessions of the Peace or any of the Courts at Westminster or any other His Majesties Courts of Record in any City Burrough or Town Corporate or in any Stanary Court or Jurisdiction of Lead-mines Then such Engines to be forfeited and seized to and for the use of the said Edward Marquess of Worcester his Executors Administrators and Assignes respectively And further that the said Actor or Actors Contriver or Contrivers thereof and every of them shall lose and forfeit Five ●●fore the Nine and twentieth day of September One thousand six hundred sixty threé And be by him or them then put into the Exchequer and kept there Copia vera Jo. Brown Cleric Parliament In admirandam magis quàm imitandam aut ullis Encomiis satis praedicandam Illustrissimi Domini Marchionis Vigorniae Machinam Hydraulicam Elogium Barbara Pyramidum sileat miracula Memphis Assiduus jactet nec Babylona labor Horat. SIste viator depone sarcinam dumreficis membra Labore languida pasce mentem novitatis avidam Perpende gyganteam hanc molé aeterni motus aemulam Naturae Artis compaginem Coeli Solíque stuporem Pondera ponderibus librata hîc Aethera scandunt Et redeunt proprias mox subitura vices Mens praegnans agitata Deo nunc praestat in Orbe Quae nec stellifero sunt tribuenda Polo Taceat Rhodus facessat Ephesus et quicquid fabulosa Praedicat antiquitas illic laudanda Artificis industria Hîc admiranda mentis sublimitas celebranda venit Cui impares fuere tot seculis retroactis omnes Graeci Et Romani humano conatù id praestitit nostra Aetate unus Cambrobritannus Divino afflatu Soli Deo Gloria Martis Imperii Palmam fert Roma perennem Artis Ingenii Cambria culmen habet pauci quos aequus amavit Jupiter aut ardens evexit ad aethera virtus Hoc potuere Jacobus Rollocus Scoto-Belga-Britannus A Panegyrick to the Right Honourable EDWARD Lord Marquess of Worcester Vpon his stupendious and never-sufficientlycommended Water-work I know mean subjects need a skilful Pen To stretch their worth on tenter-hooks but when A Theam falls out so pregnant who can chuse But strain his vulgar Wit to prove a Muse COme fainting Pilgrim lay here down thy Pack And while thou rests thy wearied limbs look back Upon this Pageant th' Emblem of his mind Whose Art and Skill hath this our Age refin'd Here little David curbs the Gyant 's brood Small drops of Rain contend with Noah's Flood One weighs a thousand coming down apace Weighs but himself when he hath run his race The Heavens admire the Centre stands amaz'd To see such Streams by so small Forces rais'd Great is the Work but greater is the Fame Of that great Peer who did invent the same What Force or Strength can do is in his reach His long Experience Cost and Charges teach What Greeks nor Romans e're could do this day Our Noble Britain here hath found the way If Ages past had bred you we had seen Your Glories current run a bigger stream But Art and Envy meeting face to face Like France and Spain dispute who shall take place None but ignoble Minds love to detract From th' Honour due to such a noble Act On then that after-ages may relate Your Service done to Country King and State And though that envious Spirits spit their gall Your noble Deeds are so well known to all As if their malice should take from your praise Your own deserts will crown your head with Bays By your Lordships most humble and faithful Servant James Rollock