2H LIFE, TIMES, AND SCIENTIFIC LABOURS [1655. 



poverty. It consists in the following, taken from the 

 original acknowledgment : * 



u Eeceaved and borrowed of my Honored friend 

 S r David Watkins the full somme of Twenty pownds 

 sterling w ch I faythfully promise to repaye at or before 

 the second day of February next ensueing to w ch I 

 oblige myselfe my Hayre Executor Administrator or 

 assign in a dubble somme or forfeiture Witnesse my 

 hand and scale this eight of De : 1655. 



Witnessed by LANCELOT HODSHON.&quot; WORCESTER. 



We have thus far traced the career of the Marquis 

 of Worcester from youth to manhood ; the scholar, 

 husband, father, general of armies, a wealthy nobleman, 

 an impoverished exile, in danger of his life by war and 

 shipwreck, twice imprisoned, now a freeman, oppressed 

 by pecuniary difficulties and earnestly striving against 

 the pressure of his own misfortunes and the weight of 

 public prejudice, to which his political life and religious 

 persuasion subjected him : sometimes through court 

 intrigue, but mostly from the rooted bigotry of those 

 gloomy times. 



Whatever interest the history of the life of the Mar 

 quis of Worcester may derive from other sources, the 

 philosopher will dwell alone with delight on that period 

 which divulged the extraordinary inventive mental 

 capabilities of such a singular scholar and early man 

 of science. He now first produced, as he himself states, 

 his remarkable little work, of which the full title runs 

 thus : &quot; A century of the names and scantlings of such 

 Inventions, as at present I can call to mind to have 

 tried and perfected, which (my former notes being lost) 



Robert Cole, Esq. bad the original receipt lithographed in facsimile. 



