APPENDIX. 550 



APPENDIX C. 



WATER-COMMANDING ENGINE, ACT, ETC. 



[From page 559 to 567, is the reprint of a rare quarto tract of 

 22 pages, of which there is a copy in the library of his Grace 

 the Duke of Beaufort ; and another in the British Museum, 

 C. 31. d. 1.] 



AN exact and true Definition of the most Stupendious &quot;Water- 

 commanding Engine, invented by the Eight Honourable (and 

 deservedly to be praised and admired) Edward Somerset, Lord 

 Marquess of Worcester, and by his Lordship himself presented 

 to his most Excellent Majesty Charles the Second, our most 

 gracious Sovereign. 



AN Act of Parliament thereupon granted, with great applause of 

 both Houses, being through his Majesties particular favour passed, 

 by special Commission to the Eight Honourable the Earl of Clarendon, 

 Lord High Chancellour of England; the Earl of Southampton, Lord 

 High Treasurer ; the Lord Roberts, Lord Privy Seal, third Officer of 

 the Crown, preceding all Dukes, not of the Blood Eoyal; the Duke 

 of Albemarle his Grace, most deservedly by his transcendent merits 

 never to be forgotten, Lord General of his Majesties Land-forces ; 

 the Lord Marquess of Dorchester, and the Earl Lynsey, Lord High 

 Chamberlain, by his place preceding all Earls, both likewise of the 

 Privy Council : They passed the said Act upon the third of June, 

 1663. For the more expedition, and in Testimony of the great con 

 sequence thereof to the King and Kingdom. 



His most Excellent Majesty having the tenth part, without 

 deducting of Charges, freely given him by the said Lord Marquess, 

 and there evidently accruing a considerable Profit and Benefit to 

 every individual Subject of the whole Nation, if he either have 

 surrounded Marish-ground to drein, or dry Land to improve ; Com 

 modities to sell portable from Town to Town, and through the 

 Countrys to the Towns by Cuts thus fed by water ; or if he have (I 

 further say) Mines wherewith to enrich himself withall, Houses to 

 be served, or Gardens to be beautified by plentiful Fountains with 

 little charge, yet certain in ever so dry a Summer : and there being 

 indeed no place but either wanteth water, or is overburdened there- 



