1663.] OF THE MARQUIS OF WORCESTER. 257 



But the Marquis was not in attendance, as on former 

 occasions, to watch the proceedings. 



We have thus traced the progress of this remarkable 

 Act through Parliament ; from the 16th of March to 

 the day of its receiving the royal assent on the 3rd of 

 June. It will have been remarked that the Marquis 

 was in constant attendance, and that it was his son who 

 was deputed by the Commons, on the 3rd of May, to 

 present the amended Bill to the Peers. It is impossible 

 to imagine what might have been the feelings of the 

 Marquis himself throughout the period of these pro 

 longed proceedings, but he unquestionably had set his 

 mind on this measure as the palladium of his inventive 

 rights and the forerunner of brighter prospects. 



In a memorandum relating to various grants, among 

 others, occurs one to the Marquis of Worcester, thus 

 noticed: &quot;March, 166|. That by Act of Parliament 

 his Invention of a Water-commanding Engine, granted 

 him for ninety-nine years, one tenth reserved to the 

 King. The King remitted the tenth to the Marquis 

 upon a surrender of a Warrant dated at Oxford, 5th 

 Jan. 20 Car. I. by which his then Majesty did grant 

 the Marquis lands to the value of 40,000, in considera 

 tion of a debt due to the Marquis from his Majesty. &quot;*| 



The prospect of better days had now fairly set in ; he 

 had at least succeeded in securing his invention to him 

 self and to his family after him, as a property in the 

 value of which he felt unbounded confidence, roundly 



* See Calendar of State Papers, 1663-1664. Domestic Series, Charles II edited 

 by Mrs. M. A. E. Green, referring to Vol. 95, and papers between Nos. 101 and 

 102. The same memorandum, in another form, appears also in Domestic Corres 

 pondence, Feb. 1664. Vol. 93, No. 83, thus : 



&quot;Water Engine Invented. The tenths of the benefit remitted to the Marquis 

 of Worcester, the Inventor, in lieu of lands to the value of 40,000, granted by 

 warrant from his Majesty for that sum disbursed in his service.&quot; 

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