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his list of a portion of his Inventions, (see Appendix A.) 

 as follows : &quot; By this (his quintessence of motion) 

 I can make a child, in a coach, to stop the horses 

 (running away), and shall be able to secure himself, and 

 those that be in the coach ; having a little engine 

 placed therein, which shall not be perceived, in what 

 posture soever the horses draw. A child s force shall 

 be able to disengage them, from overturning the coach, 

 or prejudicing anybody in it.&quot; 



The second reading is in his patent of 1661, (see Ap 

 pendix B.) wherein he offers : &quot;To make an engine 

 applicable to any coach, by which a child of six years 

 old may secure from danger all in the coach, and even 

 the coachman himself, though the horses become never 

 so unruly, the child being able in the twinkling of an 

 eye to loosen them from the coach, in what posture 

 soever they draw or turn, be it ever so short, or to 

 either hand.&quot; By means of a T-ended lever, two or four 

 bolts could be simultaneously drawn inwards, and the 

 horses thereby released with the greatest possible ease 

 and certainty. 



20. 



How to bring up water Balance- 

 wife, fo that as little weight or force 

 as will turn a Balance will be onely 

 needful, more then the weight of 

 the water within the Buckets, which 

 counterpoifed 2 empty themfelves 

 one into the other, the uppermoft 

 yielding its water (how great a 

 quantity soever it holds) at the felf 3 - 



a counterpoise, and empty. MS. and P. 3 self omitted. P. 



