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tending against every difficulty, evincing an elasticity 

 of mind that cannot but excite surprise. 



Writing to the Earl of Lotherdale,* he says : 



U MY THRICE HONOURABLE LORD, 



&quot; The two predominant powers which reign over 

 my soul, and do chiefly guide and govern my actions, 

 are love and gratitude ; the one begotten in me towards 

 your Lordship by the knowledge I had in the Tower 

 of the virtues and excellent parts, the other by a certain 

 and most true information of some passages vouchsafed 

 by your Lordship in your servant s behalf, and even in 

 his absence yesterday, before his Majesty at Hampton 

 Court. The particulars I set not down, because (?) 

 they seemed so obliging to me as that Colonel Charles 

 Groger, telling them me but at nine of the clock this 

 night, yet I could not defer till morning this most 

 humble acknowledgment ; but before I go to rest, as a 

 little token of great thankfulness, I promise your Lord 

 ship a box, with such conveniences and rarities as that 

 which you saw had, and though it were presumptuous 

 in me to say, I would give a subject a better qualified 

 present than I gave my Sovereign ; yet the King must 

 pardon an humour I have, never to be contented to 

 produce any invention the second time without appear 

 ing refined ; this doth not also content me, but I do 

 likewise engage myself that as soon as with security 

 and satisfaction, by Act of Parliament, I may put in 

 practice the greatest gift of invention for profit that I 

 ever yet heard of vouchsafed to a man, especially so 

 unworthy and ignorant as I am (I mean my water- 

 commanding engine). I offer to your Lordship s dis 

 posal the accruing benefit of five hundred pounds ; and 

 that your Lordship may not think it improbable to rise 



* From MS. collection of the late Dawson Turner, Esq. of Yarmouth. 



