88 INVENTIONS IN THE MECHANICAL ARTS. 



20. To preserve a boat from drowning and the 

 people that be therein. 



effect bothe for intelligence and many other admirable exploytes 

 almost beyonde the expectation of man :" MS. Lansd. 121. Now 

 see Bourne's Inventions or Devises, a book deserving the parti- 

 cular attention of all those who are interested in the history of 

 mechanical inventions. Edmund Jentill, in 1594, proposed a 

 " device wonderfull strange," similar to the above : it was one of 

 the inventions which he offered to discover to Lord Burghley, 

 on his release from prison, for counterfeiting foreign coin : — MS. 

 Lansd. 77 and 113. 



