$Z The Marquis of Worcefters 



them from their refts to charge or prime, to a like execution, 

 and as fall as the flafk, the mufket containing but one charge 

 at a time. 



LXII. A Way for a Harquebufs — a Crock. 

 A way for a harquebufs, a crock, or fhip-mufket, fix upon 

 a carriage, (hooting with fuch expedition, as without danger 

 one may charge, level, and difcharge them fixty times in a 

 minute of an hour, two or three together. 



LXIII. For Sakers and Minyons. 



A fixth way, molt excellent for fakers, differing from the 

 other, yet as fwift. 



LXIV. For the higgejl Cannon, 



A feventh, tried and approved before the late king (of ever 

 bleffed memory) and an hundred lords and commons, in a 

 cannon of eight inches half quarter, to moot bullets of 64 lbs. 

 weight, and 24 lbs. of powder, twenty times in fix mi- 

 nutes ; fo clear from danger, that after all were discharged, 

 a pound of butter did not melt being laid upon the cannon- 

 breech, nor the green oil difcoloured that was firft anointed 

 and ufed between the barrel thereof and the engine, having 

 never in it, nor within fix foot, but one charge at a time. 

 LXV. For a whole Side of Ship Mufkets. 



A way that one man in the cabin may govern the whole 

 fide of fhip-mufkets, to the number (if need require) of 2 or 

 3000 fhots. 



LXVI. For guarding feveral Advenues to a Tozvn. 



A way that againfl feveral advenues to a fort or caftle, one 

 man may charge fifty cannons playing, and (topping when 

 he pleafeth, though out of fight of the cannon. 



LXVI I. For Mufketoons on Horfehack. 



A rare way likewife for mufketoons faflened to the pommel 

 of the faddle, fo that a common trooper cannot mifs to charge 

 them with twenty or thirty bullets at a time, even in full career. 



"When firft I gave my thoughts to make guns moot often, 

 I thought there had been but one only exquifite way inventi- 

 ble, yet by feveral trials, and much charge, I have perfectly 

 tried all thefe." 



LXVIII. A Fire Water-work. 



An admirable and mod forcible way to drive up water by 

 fire, not by drawing or fucking it upwards, for that muft be 

 as the philofopher calleth it, intra fph&ram aclivitatis, which 

 is but at fuch a diftance. But this way hath no bounder, if 

 the veflels be ftrong enough \ for I have taken a piece of a 



whole 



