APPENDIX. 563 



AN ACT to Enable Edward Marquess of Worcester to Eeceive the 

 Benefit and Profit of a &quot;Water- Commanding Engine by him 

 Invented ; One Tenth part whereof is appropriated for the 

 Benefit of the Kings Majesty, His Heirs and Successors.* 



WHEREAS The Eight Honourable Edward Marquess of Worcester 

 hath affirmed to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, That he hath by 

 long and indefatigable pains and study, and with great and vast 

 expences, invented and found out a Secret in Nature, never hereto 

 fore discovered, being a &quot;Water- Commanding Engine, of greater 

 force and advantage then hitherto hath been known ; and being no 

 Pump or Force now in use, nor working by any Suckers, Barrels, or 

 Bellows heretofore used for the raising and conveying of Water ; 

 which said Engine will yield very great benefit and advantage to the 

 Common- wealth, by draining of all sorts of Mines, Marish, Oazie, or 

 Overflown Grounds ; by furnishing of Kivers and Cutts with water 

 to make them Navigable and Portable from Town to Town; by 

 improving of Lands wanting water ; by the supplying and bringing 

 in of w r ater into the City of London, or into any other places : and 

 by divers other ways and means whereby great Encouragement will 

 be given to the People of this Nation to undertake to work rich 

 Mines, to drain, and gain in many Marish, Oazie, and surrounded 

 Grounds, which hitherto they have been deterred to endeavour the 

 improvement of, by reason of the vast sums of money which must 

 be necessarily expended by the draining and conveying away the 

 water out of the same. And whereas the said Edward Marquess of 

 Worcester is willing and contented to setle a tenth part of the 

 accruing benefit thereof upon his Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, 

 for the term of years after in this Act mentioned ; To the end there 

 fore that the said Edward Marquess of Worcester may have and 

 enjoy the full and particular benefit and profit of this his new 

 Invention, with a Prohibition to all others to make use thereof for 

 ninety and nine years : May it therefore please the Kings most 

 Excellent Majesty, That it may be enacted, And Be it Enacted by 

 the Kings most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and 

 Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in 

 this present Parliament Assembled, and by the Authority thereof, 

 That it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Edward Marquess 

 of Worcester, His Executors and Assigns, from time to time, and at 

 all times hereafter, during the said ninety and nine years, to have, 

 receive, take, and enjoy, to his and their own proper use and uses, 



* 15 Car. II. cap. xii. 1663. 



