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story, in another form, was current in 1597, when Lord Bacon, in 

 his Essays, alluding to the origin of Inventions, remarks: &quot;It 

 should seem, that hitherto men are rather beholding to a wild goat 

 for surgerie, or to a nightingale for music, or to the ibis for some 

 part of physic, or to the POT-LID that^m open for artillery, or gener 

 ally to chance, or anything else, than to logic for the invention of 

 Arts and Sciences.&quot; The third edition of these Essays was pub 

 lished at Oxford in 1633, and from so popular a source it was natural 

 for the vulgar to take the suggestive idea of the &quot; pot-lid &quot; to account 

 for the origin of the steam engine, rather than to assign the birth of 

 that gigantic production to a natural process of inductive reasoning. 



2. Unfounded Charge of Forgery. Thomas Carte, son of the Rev. 

 Samuel Carte, born in Warwickshire, was baptized there by im 

 mersion, 23rd of April, 1686. In 1722, being accused of high treason, 

 he fled to France, but returning in 1728-30, he, in 1735, published 

 the third volume of his &quot; Life of the Duke of Ormonde.&quot; Among 

 other matters, Nichols, in his &quot; Literary Anecdotes,&quot; Vol. IX., 1815, 

 observes : &quot; In an unpublished letter to Dr. Z. Grey, dated May 14, 

 1736, he says I suppose you have read that volume [the 3rd], and 

 seen there the letters relating to the Earl of Glamorgan, who cer 

 tainly forged every commission he pretended to from the King.* I give 

 you his character in the History very justly, but yet too tenderly 

 drawn, because I am naturally unwilling to lay a load on any man s 

 memory, except I am absolutely forced to it. I intimate (so strongly 

 that nobody of common sense can mistake the thing) that he forged 

 letters and commissions without number ; and I could have pro 

 duced the compiler of the Nuncio s memoirs in evidence (who had 

 all those commissions before his eyes, and all the papers signed by 

 Glamorgan to the Nuncio) , to prove the commissions and letters he 

 pretended to from King Charles absolutely forged ; for he says he 

 was perfectly acquainted with Glamorgan s secretary, and knew his 

 handwriting as well as his own; and all those commissions and 

 letters were wrote in the hand of an Irish priest, who was Glamor 

 gan s secretary/&quot; 



After further remarks to the same effect, he concludes, &quot; In fine, 

 I have not the least doubt but that Glamorgan forged every pre 

 tended power or commission he had ; and all of them so fully express 

 his vanity, and are so adapted to his present views (which in most 

 cases could not arise till after he was in Ireland), that they could 



* Sec also the Notice in Birch s Inquiry, 1756, page 330. 



