APPENDIX. 557 



APPENDIX B. 



[ABRIDGED FROM THE FEINTED SPECIFICATIONS 6F THE PATENT 

 OFFICE.] 



MAEQUIS OF WOECESTEE S PATENT. SIGNET BILL. 



A.D. 1661. ... NO. 131. 

 Clocks, Guns, Carriages, Boats, &c. 



CHAELES E. 



CHARLES THE SECOND, by the grace of God, &c., to all to whom 

 these pnt shall come greeting. 



WHEREAS our right trusty and entirely beloved couzin EDWARD, 

 Marquesse of WORCESTER hath for many yeares applied his thought^ 

 and studies, and hath beene at very great charges, to contrive and 

 perfect divers rare and new Invencons, contenting himselfe with the 

 good and advantage which will redound to the publique and to every 

 particuler industrious workman or curious persons who shall make 

 vse of the said Invencons, the product f of his extraordinary expences 

 and ingenuity : And whereas, amongst other vsefull and new Inven 

 cons of farr greater consequence, the said Marquesse hath found out 

 and experimented these severall new Invencons herein-after per- 

 ticularly menconed (that is to say) 



&quot; 1. To make a watch or clock without string or chaine, or any 

 other kind of winding up but what of necessity must follow if the 

 owner or keeper of the said watch or clock will know the hour of 

 day or night ; and yet if he lay it aside several days and weeks 

 without looking or meddling with it, it shall go very well, and as 

 justly as most watches that ever were made. 



2. And also an Invention to make certain guns or pistols, which 

 in the tenth part of one minute of an hour may, with a flaske con 

 trived to that purpose, be recharged, the fourth part of one turne of 

 the barrel, which remains still fixt, fastening it as forceably and 

 effectually as a dozen threads of any screw, which in the ordinary 

 and usual way require as many turns. 



3. Also an Invention 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 twinckleing of an eye to 



