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himself of this proviso the year after the lease was 

 granted, settled Casper Kaltoff, a Dutchman, at Vaux- 

 hall, who was employed in making guns and other 

 warlike implements for government service. 65 



By an Act of the House of Commons, 1 7th of July, 

 1649, for the sale of the houses, &c. of the late King, 

 Queen, and Prince, it is provided that &quot; it should not 

 extend to the house called Vaux Hall, nor to the 

 grounds, houses, buildings, models, utensils, or other 

 necessaries for practical inventions therein contained; but 

 that they should remain for the use of the Common 

 wealth, to be employed and disposed of by the Parlia 

 ment, as they shall think fit.&quot; 3 Now the mention of 

 inventions and models, taken in connection with recent 

 facts, would lead to the inference that the Marquis of 

 Worcester might have been much earlier associated 

 with practical experiments at Vauxhall than at first 

 appears. On this point he was always reserved, even 

 in his Century only cautiously alluding to Kaltoff as 

 being &quot;in a place by my great expenses made fit for 

 public service, yet lately like to be taken from me.&quot; 



Among the manuscripts of the Royal Society is a 

 letter from Samuel Hartlib, the author of works relat 

 ing to Husbandry, addressed to the Honourable Robert 

 Boyle, 14 dated Amsterdam, May the 18th, 1649, in which 

 he remarks : 104 &quot; Fauxhall is to be set apart for public 

 uses, by which is meant making it a place of resort for 

 artists, mechanics, &c. and a depot for models and phi 

 losophical apparatus.&quot; It is further proposed, that 

 &quot; experiments and trials of profitable inventions should 

 be carried on,&quot; which, says Hartlib, &quot;will be of great 

 use to the Commonwealth.&quot; Adding that the late 

 King (Charles I.) &quot; designed Fauxhall for such an use.&quot; 



65 Lysons. 3 Allen. 14 Boyle. 10 &amp;lt; Weld. 



