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them. My Lord appointed a day for receiving the money upon 

 them and delivering the jewels ; being met, he shows them all to 

 these persons, then seals them up in a box, and delivered them to one 

 of these merchants, by consent of the rest, to be kept for one year, 

 and upon the payment of the 8,000 by my Lord Marquis to be 

 delivered him. 



&quot; After my Lord had received the money, he was entertained at all 

 these persons houses, and nobly feasted with them near a month : he 

 went from thence to France. When the year was expired, they, by 

 letters into France, pressed the payment of this borrowed money 

 several times, alleging they had great necessity of their money to 

 drive their trade with, to which my Lord Marquis made no answer, 

 which did at last so exasperate these men, that they broke open the 

 seals, and opening the box found nothing but rags and stones for 

 their .=68,000, at which they were highly enraged, and in this case I 

 left them.&quot; 



The least acquaintance with the character of the Marquis must 

 satisfy any one of the absurdity of this silly story, fastened on a 

 man of stainless honour, by an obscure lodging-house keeper. The 

 man who related it could never have imagined that Lady Fanshawe 

 would place on record the story he was relating for her amusement, 

 as an historical fact, or he might have shown more discretion than 

 her Ladyship, by affording some authority for a statement of so 

 scandalous a character. 



4. Pretended interview between tlie Marquis of Worcester and De 

 Cans in the Bicetre, Paris. This fiction was long supported by a 

 forged letter, pretended to have been written in February, 1641, by 

 Marion Delorine, addressed to M. de Cinq-Mars. An exposure of 

 this fable is due to M. Figuier, in his &quot; Principales Decouvertes 

 Scientifiques Modernes,&quot; post octavo, 4 volumes, 1862. After 

 quoting the fabricated document, he says : &quot; Cette piece, fabriquee 

 par un mystificateur hardi, eut un succes prodigieux, et Ton ne 

 manqua pas de dire quo le marquis de Worcester, a qui ses com- 

 patriotes attribuent la decouverte de la machine a vapeur, en 

 avait puise 1 ideo dans sa conversation avec le fou de Bicetre. On 

 pouvait cependant clever contre 1 authenticite de cet ecrit quelques 

 objections qui ne manquent pas de solidite. On pouvait faire 

 remarquer, entre autres choses, que Salomon de Caus, mort en 1630, 

 aurait pu difficilement etre enferme en 1641 dans un hopital de fous ; 

 que Bicetre ctait alors une commanderie de Saint-Louis, ou Ton 

 donnait asile a d ancieus militaires, et non un hopital ; que Salomon 

 de Caus n avait jamais pense a construire une machine utilisaut les 



