A. D. 1^30. 2i^'j 



Annually limited by himfelf, and that none be imported but into the- 

 port of London only. [Fcedera, V. xix, p. 235.] 



In Munn's judicious book, intitled, England's treafure by foreign 

 trade, treating of the advantage of permitting the free exportation of 

 our own coin as well as of foreign bullion, he obferves, ' that Ferdi- 

 ' nand T, the grand duke of Tufcany, was very rich in treafure, and en- 

 ' larged his trade by lending to merchants great fums of money at a 



* low intereft : that myfelf had 40,000 crowns of him, gratis, for a 

 ' whole year ; although he knew that I would prefently fend it away in 



* fpecie to Turkey, to be employed in wares for his country ; he being 

 ' well afTured, that in this courfe of trade it would return again, ac- 



* cording to the old faying, with a duck in the mouth. By his thus en- 

 ' couraging of commerce, within thefe thirty years the trade of his port 

 ' of Leghorn is fo much encreafed, that of a poor little town, as I my- 

 ' felf knew it, it is now become a fair and ftrong city *.' 



This year the Dutch Weft-India company again invaded Brazil, with 

 better fuccefs than before, and reduced the city of Olinda, with the en- 

 tire province of Fernambuque ; and afterward they gradually extended 

 their conquers much farther into that country. 



The king gave excluiive grants or charters to David Ramfay, a great 

 projedor in thofe days, for the following pretended new inventions. 



I) To multiply and make faltpetre in anv open field of only four 

 acres of ground, fufficient to ferve all our dominions. 



II) To raife water from low pits by fire. 



III) To make any fort of mills to go on fianding waters, by conuuuai 

 motion, without the help of wind, weight, or horfe. 



IV) To make all forts of tapeftry without any weaving loom, or other 

 way ever yet in ufe in this kingdom. 



V) To make boats, fhips, and barges to go againft fl;rorig wind and 

 tide. 



VI) To make the earth more fertile than ufual. 



VII) To raife water from low niines and coal-pits, by a way never 

 yet in ufe. 



VIII) To make hard iron foft, and likewife copper tough and foft ; 

 which is not in ufe in this kingdom. 



IX) To make yellow wax white very fpeedily f . 



Another proje6t in this year was, for conveying certain fprings of water 

 into London and Weftminfter from within a mile and an half of Hodf- 

 don in Hertfordfhire, by the undertakers Sir Edward Stradling and John 

 Lyde, the projedor being one Michael Parker, for defraying the ex- 

 penfe whereof King Charles granted them a fpecial licence to ered and 



* Probably Mr. Miinn was in Legliorn about this time, and may have written his book :iboiit 1660. 

 It was pubHiiied after his death by his fon in the year 1664. 



-J- Ramfay feems to have had as fertile a brain as any of the famous year I730. 



