536 THE CENTURY, 



[A stupendious Water-worJcJ] The present article 

 concludes the Marquis of Worcester s own observations 

 on his Water-commanding Engine. His engagements 

 in hydraulic engineering, as we have already seen, 

 commenced about, or before, 1628; but we have later 

 and more satisfactory evidence of his having had the 

 invention, which is here indicated, absolutely at work, 

 under the management of his engineer Kaltoff, at Vaux- 

 hall. Hitherto we have confined our notice of any 

 express date to the period of the passing of the Act in 

 1663, securing to him the profits in his invention for 

 99 years. We are, however, now prepared to show 

 that, during the reign of Charles the First, in and 

 before 1647, the Marquis was occupied on the mechani 

 cal arrangements of his engine, when one William 

 Lambert, a brass-founder, was engaged under him 

 at Vauxhall, in providing material &quot; founded in 

 brass/ expressly for &quot; water- work.&quot; This evidence, 

 being afforded under circumstances very different 

 from any attempt to establish the present statement, is 

 all the more trustworthy, coming as a mere evidence 

 of personal employment in the Marquis s service, while 

 soliciting from Charles the Second, after his restoration, 

 to be reinstated at Vauxhall, in accordance with an 

 order from the late king. 



We shall now give entire the exceedingly interesting 

 and important petition and royal order, from the original 

 in the State Paper Office : * 



appear in the 1st edition, 1663 : &quot; Besides many omitted, and some of three sorts 

 willingly not set down, as not fit to be divulged, least ill use may be made thereof; 

 but to show that such things are also within my knowledge, I will here in myne 

 owne cypher set down at least one of each, not to be concealed where duty, and 

 affection obligeth me.&quot; 



* This Petition is calendared under the date &quot;1665?&quot; but probably belongs 

 to 1664. 



